Carrots for your hair: what they provide and how to use them

Hair is made mostly of a protein, keratin, and it grows from the root, in the scalp. What you eat reaches it too. Carrots are one of those cheap foods, easy to find in Puerto Rico, that add to well-cared-for hair. Here we tell you what they provide and how to use them.

If you're interested in the skin on your face, we have another article: Carrots for your skin.

What carrots provide for your hair

• Beta-carotene: the body turns it into vitamin A as it needs it. Vitamin A takes part in the normal renewal of skin cells, and the scalp is skin too.
• Vitamin C: it is needed for the normal formation of collagen.
• Water and fiber: with very few calories, as part of a varied diet.

It's a food: it helps as part of a varied diet with enough protein, which is what hair is made of.

How to eat them

• As juice, alone or with orange, lemon or beet. Juice loses the fiber: the whole carrot fills you up more.
• Raw, in salads, or cooked, in soups, stews and purées. Cooked and with a little fat, like olive oil or avocado, the body makes better use of the beta-carotene, because it dissolves in fat.

Carrot hair mask

Carrots are also used in homemade hair masks. What you can expect is what any gentle mask gives: hydration and hair that feels softer to the touch.

A simple recipe: cooked, mashed carrot with a tablespoon of olive or coconut oil. Apply it to damp hair for 15 to 20 minutes and rinse with your usual shampoo. If you are allergic to any of those ingredients, don't use it.

In short

• They provide beta-carotene: the body turns it into vitamin A, which takes part in the normal renewal of the skin, including the scalp.
• They provide vitamin C: needed for the normal formation of collagen.
• They work best as part of a varied diet, with enough protein.
• As a mask, they hydrate like any gentle mask.

For your hair routine

Eating them is the best way. And to wash your hair, all the natural shampoos we carry are in Natural Shampoo.

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