Natural Hair Growth with the Powerful Onion Mask

Most hair problems are concerned with improper cleansing and nourishing or bacterial infections. If you have a single solution for all these problems you are sure to have good improvement in your hair condition.

Well, you do not have to go much farther than your kitchen for the right solution. Yes! Onion. Onion is one ingredient in your food that you would not be able to avoid. And this same onion plays a vital role in your hair growth too.

Recent researchers have found that the sulphur content in onion works wonders when it comes to hair growth. Onions also have vitamin C, vitamin B6, magnesium, potassium and germanium. All these minerals and vitamins have a great effect on the health of your hair. Although taking onion along with your food is good, making it into a hair mask and applying directly to your scalp is more advantageous.

Onion Hair Mask

Small onions, which are usually available in south India, is preferred more than the bigger ones for this purpose, however when there is no choice you could go for the bigger onions.

To make the hair mask take a handful of small onions, clean them and make them into fine paste in a blender.

Take this paste (you could also use the extract by filtering the paste to avoid chunks on your hair) and add equal amounts of coconut oil and olive oil to it. If you are unable to stand the pungent smell of onion you could add a few drops of essential oil to the mask mixture.

Now apply the mixture thoroughly on your scalp and roots with messaging strokes with your forefingers. This helps in proper application. You could cover the mask using a shower cap and leave it on for half an hour.

Wash the mask off with a mild shampoo.

Using this mask every other day for 45 days would give you good hair growth, remedy from hair fall, softness to your hair and also you would find new hair growing at places where there are patches of less dense hair.

How Does This Work

It is a well-known fact that sulphur induces hair growth, the excess of sulphur present in the most usable form, in onion, helps in production of new hair and also good growth of hair already present.

The pungency of onion helps in creating a tingling effect on your scalp there by bringing more blood flow to the scalp. This helps in providing more iron to the roots and nourishing them.

Onion also acts as an antimicrobial agent and kills infections caused by fungus and bacteria on the scalp, thus making sure your scalp is clean and also dirt free.

You might have used many products for your hair and found them not so effective; however onion is one fool-proof ingredient to maintain the health of your hair. Try it and you would not regret.