How to Get Olive Oil out of Your Hair

Olive oil is useful for many things besides cooking. You can use olive oil to help soften your hair, and it also makes also a great home treatment to kill lice. The problem is that olive oil is very thick and heavy. It can saturate your hair and make it very greasy. Luckily, there are some secrets to get the olive oil out of your hair.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Dawn dish-washing soap
• Shampoo
• Vinegar
• Baking soda
• Baby shampoo
• Prell
• Cornstarch

1. Rinse all the olive oil out of your hair as best you can. Then apply enough Dawn to lather your hair. After lathering your hair, rinse with water. Keeping rinsing your hair until the water runs clear. (The problem with Dawn is that it's such an effective grease-cutter that it tends to strip your hair of all the oils, so don't do this every day.)

2. Or, wash your hair with regular shampoo. Rinse all the olive oil from your hair. Shampoo and rinse your hair, then rinse again. Now apply the shampoo again. This time, allow the shampoo to penetrate your hair for three minutes. Now rinse the shampoo out of your hair again.

3. Use vinegar for another easy way to remove olive oil from your hair. Vinegar has a cleaning agent that strips the oil clinging to your hair and helps restore your hair's Ph balance. First rinse all the olive oil you can out of your hair with water. Make a mixture of ½ cup vinegar to 1 quart warm water, and pour it into a container. Apply the vinegar solution to your hair, massaging down to the roots. Rinse well.

4. Use baking soda and baby shampoo for another option. Mix a little baking soda with just a little bit of baby shampoo. Put the mixture on your hair while it is dry, then wash with warm water. Repeat until all the olive oil is gone.

5. Try Prell. First, pat your hair with paper towels to soak up excess olive oil, then massage Prell into your hair. Add just a little warm water. Rinse. Repeat until all the olive oil is gone.

6. Use cornstarch. Sprinkle a little cornstarch on your hair and pat it in. This will help absorb some of the oil. Rinse with a clarifying shampoo.

Tips & Warnings

• It is important to use warm water with every rinse. Cold water will only make the olive oil even more greasy.
• It is possible that some of these methods could remove hair coloring from your hair, too.

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[hlthychoclitnut]

on 8/16/2009 thanks, tried olive oil on my hair and can't get it out I'll try vinegar

[refslady]

on 5/18/2009 If olive oil is heavy and makes your hair greasy, why not use a lighter oil that is more easily absorbed into the hair without causing the greasiness?