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For the Mixtresses: Rosemary Hair Whip

Remember that homemade mayonnaise that I was waxing poetic about? The one that made my tastebuds sing and my hair follicles dance? Well this Rosemary Hair Whip recipe from The Natural Beauty Workshop has upped my ante.

Egg yolk, the base of mayonnaise, contains a boatload of cholesterol, which can help to reinforce damaged hair, making it shinier and easier to manage. Vinegar, the second ingredient in mayo, can soften, balance ph, and cleanse hair of the heavy residues that build up from everyday styling products. The final ingredient in mayo is a clear winner for hair care, vegetable oil! Those three basic ingredients create a hair mask that when properly doctored up, can rival the effectiveness of almost any store-bought conditioning treatment.

Rosemary Hair Whip

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Get the full scoop on this recipe and more at The Natural Beauty Workshop!

The Art of Mayonnaise: For your heart and your hair

Dukes is to mayonnaise as Kleenex is to tissue—it sets the standard to which other brands of mayonnaise aspire. For years I’ve kept a jar in the fridge, but I never ever dared to even think about making my own (gasp!) mayonnaise. As luck would have it, we ran out of mayo just as I was beginning the chapter of Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal (a life changing book if ever there was one) that includes Adler’s own philosophy on mayonnaise.

The degrading of mayonnaise from a wonderful condiment for cooked vegetables or sandwiches to an indistinguishable layer of fat has been radical and violent. Mayonnaise is a food best made at home and almost never made at home. This has robbed us of something that is both healthy and an absolute joy to eat with gusto. ~Tamar Adler

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