Hot Oil Treatments Can Bring Your Hair Back To Life

Hot oil treatments are probably the most important elements within your hair care regimen because there is nothing like having good oil treatments within your regimen that you can rely on to bring your hair back to life. I want to talk with your guys about how amazing hot oil treatments are the benefits and how you can make DIY one at home. Besides, you can practice the same method to maintain your Brazilian hair, human hair wigs and any type of human hair extensions, which do enable a healthier state and a longer lifespan.

How do hot oil treatments work?

You heard somebody say it is a good idea to do hot oil treatment but you don't know why you are doing it and you don't know what purpose it's serving. Hot oil hair treatments are the treatments that utilize warmed natural oils to nourish and moisturize the hair as well as the scalp. The first thing is it is important to understand that the vast majority of regular oils are unable to penetrate your hair. However, when you add heat to oils, you actually are able to open up your hair cortex and your hair shaft so that the oils can actually penetrate inside of the hair. That's the whole point of hot oil treatments.

What are the benefits of hot oil treatments?

Incorporating natural oils into your current hair care regimen is going to be super beneficial. The great thing about hot oil treatment is that they actually help to deep condition your hair and minimize frizz when you have 4c natural hair or wearing curly hair weave. They can help to soften your hair, smooth the hair cuticle, and reduce frizz. It also brings back the natural shine to virgin hair or your natural hair. Who doesn't want that? It's especially amazing if you have low porosity hair like I do because the warmth of the oils is going to help open up your hair cuticles and allow for that moisture and all the nutrients from the oils to penetrate into the hair shaft.

They are going to help promote hair growth specifically because they help to build protein in your hair and help to strengthen your natural hair. The stronger your hair is, the less likely it is to break. Then you will find your hair grow longer. If you are experiencing breakage or a lot of brittleness or anything like that, you need to be doing hot oil treatment to strengthen your hair.   

How to choose the oil?

You want to start off by choosing one oil or multiple oils for your treatment. There are actually two different categories of oils to choose from you have your carrier oils and then you have your essential oils.

Carrier oils are derived from vegetables nuts and seeds. Those are going to be like your coconut oil, olive oil, castor oil,  and sweet almond oil etc. Essential oils are derived typically from plants with high concentration and a very strong odor. That's going to be like tea tree oil, lavender oil, and oils like that.

Since essential oils are so highly concentrated, you're going to start off by choosing your carrier oils first and then follow it up by adding a couple of drops of your essential oils if you choose to use one. Usually, my mixture includes two ounces of each oil and I chose sweet almond oil, avocado oil, castor oil, and jojoba oil to help treat a dry scalp. If you have one, I would recommend adding a couple of drops of tea tree oil to your mixture. Then you are going to warm up your oils.

Heat the oil

There are actually two ways that you can do heat the oil depends on what you would prefer to do.

For the first way, you're going to place your oil mixture in a heat safe container and place it in a bowl of hot water until the oil warms up. Don't place the oil in a microwave because it will lose a lot of its nutrients. After testing the oil on your hand or wrist to make sure that it won't burn your scalp, you can begin the application of your oil mixture onto your hair from roots to ends. After that, you're going to place a plastic cap over your head and leave that on for thirty to forty-five minutes.

The second method that you can use which is the one that I prefer to do is you're just going to start off by applying your room temperature oil mixture to your hair in small sections. And then you're going to follow it up with indirect heat for about thirty to forty-five minutes.

Whichever method you choose to use after that 30 to 45 minutes, you're just going to shampoo it out and wash your hair as you normally do.

Some tips for you

Some quick tips to keep in mind while doing this treatment. The first is you want to apply a liberal amount of oil to your hair, but not so much to the point where your hair is just dripping with oil.

The second tip is especially if you decide to use an essential oil, it'll be really good to go ahead and massage your scalp nice and gently for about two minutes or so before applying your plastic cap.

Lastly, definitely feel free to do a little bit research the different benefits of different carrier and essential oils to find out the mixture that's really going to work best for your hair if you haven't already incorporated hot oil hair treatments into your hair care regimen.

How often? 

Here are my suggestions: if your hair is extremely damaged dry and brittle, doing hot oil treatments 1 to 2 times a month to bring your hair back to a healthy state. Note that you should be deep conditioning every single time you wash your hair so based on your wash schedule.

If you haven't tried hot oil treatment yet, please don't be afraid to try it out in your next wash day! You will be surprised how amazing they benefit your hair. JC Hair Factory is one of best wholesale hair vendors in China for more than 15 years. We always supply quality wholesale hair extensions to our clients at real factory prices. Welcome!