How to Bleach Hair With Natural Chemicals
Bleaching your hair is sometimes a tedious process. Using hair color with bleach additives is not always the safe route to lightening your hair. Excessive use of the chemicals found in some dyes are bad for your health as well as your hair. There are ways to bleach your hair by using natural chemicals and remedies. Whether you have dirty blonde or dark brown hair, natural bleaching is a simple alternative. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Go outside and enjoy the sun. Bleaching your hair in the sun is a natural way to lighten your hair. Put on sunscreen and lay out on a lounge chair to soak up the warm rays. For those of us who spend a lot of time outside during the summer, you will notice your gets lighter.
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Squeeze some lemons to lighten your locks. Use lemons to bleach your hair. Squeeze the juice from the lemons and mix the juice with water. Put the mixture in your dry hair and leave it in for several hours. After the elapsed time, rinse the lemon mix out of your hair. You will notice the natural highlights in your hair.
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A cup of tea is a natural hair bleacher. Dip your hair in a cup of tea. That's right the tea you typically drink will also naturally lighten your hair. Steep your tea and then allow it to cool. Once cool put the tea in your hair and rinse out once your hair is lightened. This is a time-consuming process as the bleaching procedure is slow.
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Use hydrogen peroxide. Test the peroxide on a few strands of your hair. After 24 hours, check the strands to see if you got the desired results. Once you have the timing and amount down, use peroxide on the rest of your hair. Hydrgen peroxide is better than many of the chemical in the hair bleaching solutions at the store.
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Chamomile will naturaly lighten your hair. Go to the florist and get some flowers. Use chamomile flowers to naturally bleach your locks. Put the flowers in boiling water. Let the water cool. Rinse your hair with the chamomile water. Let the water from your hair drip into a container so you can reuse it. Be sure to let save the left over water. Keep the chamomile rinse on your hair for 15 minutes. Rinse and repeat the process until you get your desired results.
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Tips & Warnings
Using lemon juice in your hair as well as sitting in the sun will speed up your bleaching process. Add conditioner to the lemon juice and sit outside for 20 minutes to get a soft bleached hairdo.
Tea will make light hair darker. Hydrogen peroxide has an unpleasant smell which will stay in your hair.
References
- Photo Credit blond girl with curl hair image by Andrejs Pidjass from Fotolia.com lemons image by Maria Brzostowska from Fotolia.com tea image by Horticulture from Fotolia.com chamomile. on a black background. image by Mihail Orlov from Fotolia.com
