How to Get Olive Oil Out of Your Hair

Olive oil has many uses.

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.

Things You'll Need

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

Instructions

1. Rinse the olive oil out of your hair as best you can.

2. Apply enough Dawn to lather your hair, then rinse with water until the water runs clear.

3. Wash your hair with regular shampoo and rinse if you'd rather use your own shampoo. Apply the shampoo again, and allow the shampoo to penetrate your hair for three minutes. Rinse the shampoo out of your hair.

4. 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.

5. Mix a little baking soda with a little bit baby shampoo. Put the mixture on your hair while it is dry, then rinse with warm water. Repeat until all the olive oil is gone.

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

7. Sprinkle a little cornstarch on your hair and pat it in. Rinse with a clarifying shampoo.

Tips & Warnings

• It is important to use warm water with every rinse. Cold water will make the olive oil even more greasy.

• Dawn is such an effective grease-cutter that it tends to strip your hair of all the oils, so don't do this every day.

• Some of these methods may remove hair coloring from your hair.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish