As we all know almond is truly a wonder food with the many benefits it has for health, skin, and hair. Almonds lower cholesterol, decrease cancer risks, helps avoid heart disease, control blood sugar, and helps manage weight. For skin too, it has many benefits like skin brightening, tan removal, treat acute skin infections like psoriasis and eczema, and is a remedy for chapped lips, wrinkles, cracked heels, dry feet, and hands. It also helps relax muscles when used for massage. Even for the hair, the benefits are multiple and we look at just how almond oil is extremely important for healthy, beautiful hair.
There can be many causes for dandruff. It could be dryness of skin, not cleaning properly and regularly, too much shampooing usage, seborrhoea dermatitis, eczema, scalp psoriasis, allergy, or a yeast-like fungus. A dandruff build-up affects the hair follicles also as it gets accumulated at the scalp and around the hair roots and doesn’t let the required oxygen reach it. Almond oil helps in softening of dandruff which loosens its hold on the scalp and can be easily cleaned out when shampooing after the oiling.
Pollution, heat, dust, and chemicals in hair products can get built up in hair and affect it by causing inflammation and infection. Not taking proper care to avoid these factors leads to weak hair, dandruff, etc. The anti-inflammatory properties of almond oil soothe and reduce the inflammation.
Almond oil helps give the much-needed hydration to your hair that helps them look shiny, and feel soft. The essential fatty acids in almond oil help in not only moisturising the scalp but also the hair strands themselves, thus leading to healthy hair. Almond oil has vitamin E in it that is rich in antioxidants. Antioxidants neutralise the problematic free radicals that affect hair health. It also helps in tackling damage to hair caused by various factors like pollution, chemicals, heat, etc.
Almond oil can be applied in various ways that are helpful in achieving healthy, beautiful hair. One way is to use it post-wash as a leave-in conditioner. All you need is to apply a few drops of the almond oil to your hair once it is dried off. It gives your hear a healthy shine and forms a layer that protects the hair from external harmful factors like pollution, dust, etc.
