Deep Conditioner
By: Mia Jones © 2001
Avocados contain vitamin B6 & vitamin E
The Ingredients
1 small jar of real mayonnaise
1/2 of an avocado
The Instructions
Put together in a medium bowl and squish together with your hands until it's a minty green color. Smooth into hair all the way to the tips. Put on a shower cap or wrap your head with saran wrap.
Leave on for 20 minutes. For deeper conditioning put a hot, damp towel around your head -over the saran wrap. And if you have really long hair and only need deep conditioning at the ends, cut the ingredients in half and apply only to the ends and just wrap them.
Did You Know
The Aztecs used avocados as a sexual stimulant.
European Sailors making the passage to the Americas knew avocados as MIDSHIPMAN'S BUTTER because they liked to spice up their shipboard provisions with a rich, guacamole-like substance.
Early Americans once called the avocado an ALLIGATOR PEAR because they could not pronounce the Spanish word for avocado, "aguacate," which is a derivative of the Aztec word, "ahuacatl."
Americans' use of the word avocado is a corruption of the Spanish word "aguacate." The form AVOCADO was first used by Sir Henry Sloane in 1669....
Source: California Avocado Commission
Storage: Most recipes require refrigeration since they don't contain preservatives. Shelf Life is approximately 1 week.