Mayonnaise on dry hair overnight

[PartyCat]

Is Mayonnaise slathered on dry hair overnight actually a good hair mask for dry, greying hair? Or is it just a disgusting waste of time and mayo?

Sounds grim as fuck.

If your hairs going coarse try products designed to smooth it.

That would smell so bad and ruin your bedding. Find a good hair mask and use that.

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Sounds utterly repulsive.

Why not use a hair mask?

Use coconut oil. Comb through hair, wrap in cling film or allow to dry, wash out the next morning.

That should have said shampoo out the next morning.

PS. Apply the coconut oil to dry hair.

Jeez, don’t do that, the smell would knock you sick. Just buy a deep conditioning treatment like others do.

Thanks all, yes I have already tried Hot Oils, deep hair conditioner, olive oil, coconut oil - all overnight - seem to have no effect. Nothing seems to work. But I am starting to feel sick now at the thought of it and the smell trying to sleep. Yuk! Might do a compromise and just put some on now for an hour, but wash off before bed. I think I am having flashbacks of Julia Roberts in some film (Dying Young?) and she had mayo on her hair. And obv if I do that I will have her luscious hair ... need to give myself a shake maybe. Thanks anyway, will report back if any miracle softness results :-)

When lockdowns over get a Brazilian blow dry. Or buy a kit but when life gives you grey dry hair relax the fucking life out of it.

Mines just started and I don’t mind the colour white but why is the end of each new white hair like a zig zag?.

Don’t do Brazilian .. lots of potentially harmful chemicals I think. I understand your desperation OP. I’ve tried every bloody hair mask on the market ( or so it feels) . Many are fine the next day but don’t last . I think this is because your hair is essentially dead apart from the root so it’s all cosmetic coating. Which of course washes off. Good diet and hydration is the key.

However I am tempted to try the avocado and cling film overnight once DH is away

Oh good lord no! Garnier hair food is a decent mask for overnight I like the coconut one

I’ve just been on another thread where a woman claims to have been rubbing flour into to her hair for years. FFS I am all kinds of natural but there is a reason that women’s hair looks absolutely disgusting in Victorian photographs and that reason is - egg, flour, vinegar and oil. If you put Hellman’s on your head you will have to wash it off with some kind of paint stripper. How is that going to be good for your hair?

Have you tried Philip Kingsley's Hair Elasticizer? I find leaving that on overnight and shampooing out next morning helps if my hair is feeling especially dry.

Oh god never thought of that. Too late, it's on now ... I have tried loads of stuff already, hence turning to mayo out of desperation! Well, the proof will be in the pudding, or the scrambled hair salad.

Ps I will take note of those recommendations, thanks!

Why not just put conditioner on it, wrap it up and leave it a while before rinsing out?

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I really want to know how this ends OP

Yes I have tried conditioner for a long while/overnight, doesn't seem to do much.

I’ve done it in desperation. I was young and foolish and slept with my hair in vomit - mayonnaise rescued it.

25 years ago I wouldn’t have known where to buy coconut oil and I knew a V05 hot oil wasn’t going to cut it.

They use egg treatment in the Middle East.

My hair is really course too. It improved when I took a multivitamin that included vitamin d and stopped using shampoo so frequently. The curly girl method really works!

Mayo in your hair?? I need to google...

What does your hair smell - sorry, LOOK - like this morning OP?

I use vegetable oil mixed in with leave in conditioner. That’s a pretty hard core treatment.

What shampoo are you using? Mine is better with one with no SLS. Most of those on here are good. Aubrey Organics and Avalon in particular. www.gentlebubbles.com/buy-phthalate-free-products/sulfate-paraben-phthalate-free-shampoo/

This is fascinating thread!

I never realised until recently when someone replied to one of my dry hair posts that it could be protein that your hair needs.

Suppose eggs are good protein hence the mayo? Is the better question op- which protein treatments work best???

I washed my hair with cider vinegar the other day - think it may have made a small difference. I'd love to know other proteins treatments that work.

OP, i have straw like grey hair. I experimented with a million shampoo and conditioner options before settling. The best for me is aveda dry remedy, prior this that I'd always used cheap stuff so this was hard, but i simply couldn't find one that worked in that price range. This shampoo and conditioner leave my hair not feeling scratchy, but i wanted now than that so i then added in a mask and after all this I'm finally left with soft manageable hair. After trying a lot of masks the one i settled on is the elasticizer extreme. My routine in lockdown is to put the mask on, leave for a few hours, then wash and condition, leave to dry naturally. I do use a hair oil (put on damp hair) too, but i haven't felt this was a game changer and I'll stop when the oil runs out.

Op, this routine it's the result of deciding one year to simply invest in trying to find products that worked for me, so i didn't spend money on clothes or other things and i spent ages on Google researching products for my hair type. Some of the more expensive brands let you return used products if they didn't work for you. Good luck.