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By: Vivien Estrada
For the ladies who wants a long and thick hair because it can boost your confidence, and attain fulfilment on having a beautiful hair. Long and thick hair are still a trend up-today. Therefore, celebrities and some social media influencers shared their natural do-it-yourself (DIY) hair routines and it involve some oils and plants to preserve their hair thickness like aloe vera, coconut oil, and castor oil. But least of them didn't know the benefits of rice water in our hair.
Rice water is the starchy water which remains after rice is soaked or cooked. Rice water contain many vitamins and minerals that came from rice grain. It consists of vitamin E, anti-oxidants, amino acids, and minerals. For additional info, long time ago, women in southeast Asia are using rice water to preserve their hair long that exceeded on 6 to 8 feet. You find it interesting and effective huh? Now we head to rice water making, using rice water, and rice water benefits.
Ingredients:
*1/2 cup of rice
*2 cups of water
Procedures:
1. Wash the uncook rice on water to remove the excess dirt.
2. Place the washed rice on a bowl and add 2 cups of water
3. Leave the rice water at 30 minutes for soaking.
4. Strain the rice water at a clean jar and ready it for fermentation.
5. Ferment the rice water for 12 hours (12 hours is enough to ferment the rice water, because when you leave it for 24 hours, it smells horrible).
After the 12-hours fermentation, rice water is now ready to use! And you can add some fragrance oils to your rice water to remove the unwanted smell due to fermentation.
How to use rice water?
1. Contain your spray bottle with rice water.
2. Spray the rice water into your hair
3. Leave the sprayed rice water into your hair on 10 minutes.
4. Rinse your hair. You can now proceed on shampoo and conditioning your hair for best results.
Benefits of rice water on hair:
1. Makes hair grow healthy and long
2. Conditions hair
3. It reduces split ends
4. Decreases hair damage
5. Removes dandruff
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