What Happens if You Wash Your Hair With Beer
Why are you still using their chemical-packed products?
The long-term effects of chemical shampoos on your body can be devastating.
The FDA requires all shampoo manufacturers to list every ingredient in their formulations. Here are some of those that pose a serious risk to your health:
The Silent Killers in Shampoos
Formaldehyde releasers prevent mold and bacteria from growing by slowly releasing formaldehyde, which kills germs. While it might keep the product clean, it’s also toxic to humans. Even though only small amounts are released with each use, using it often (like washing your hair every day) means this exposure will add up over time. You’ll be in great danger.
You either breathe it in or it gets into your body through your skin. It is scientifically proven that formaldehyde increases the risk of cancer! Over time, it damages your cells, mutates your DNA, and can lead to cancers like leukemia or throat cancer.
Always check the ingredients list for DMDM Hydantoin, quaternion-15 or imidazolidinyl urea, diazolidinyl urea, and bronopol!
Triclosan is another potential carcinogenic ingredient in your shampoo. It’s added to kill bacteria and keep things fresh, but it messes with your hormones, increasing the risk of cancers like breast or thyroid cancer. It also harms your hair, causing scalp irritation, and thinning. It can even stop hair growth completely.
Even worse, when exposed to sunlight, triclosan can turn into dioxins, toxic chemicals linked to liver cancer.
This is why I started to use a liver blend: to protect my liver and to help regenerate the damage that was already done. The ingredients lower liver inflammation, flush toxins from the liver, reduce lipid accumulation in the liver, and are a good source of inulin to promote healthy gut bacteria, and detoxify the gallbladder, kidneys, and liver. All these while they also help with cirrhosis, hepatitis, and fatty liver disease.
My Grandmother’s Secret
My grandmother is also dealing with hair loss, and she showed me the recipe she’s using to regrow her hair. She learned it from The Forgotten Home Apothecary. And you’ll never guess what the main ingredient is…
It’s beer!
Before reading Grandma’s book, I thought hops and barley were just beer ingredients. As it turns out, hops can soothe your stomach and barely helps balance blood sugar. They have many medicinal properties.
The Benefits of this hops and barley elixir
Beer offers lots of health benefits when used externally, due to its key ingredients: hops, yeast, and barley (or other grains). Here are some of them:
- The sugars and proteins in beer coat each strand, giving you shiny hair without weighing your hair down.
- If you struggle with flat hair, beer can add volume, making it look fuller.
- Beer is loaded with B vitamins and proteins from malt and hops, which help you strengthen hair and reduce breakage.
- With a naturally low pH, beer helps balance your scalp and keep it clean without stripping away essential oils.
- Thanks to its natural yeast content, beer makes hair softer and easier to manage – no more knots and frizz!
- Its antibacterial properties help cleanse your scalp, reduce dandruff, and even soothe minor skin irritations caused by bacteria.
- The nutrients in beer improve blood flow to the scalp. This encourages faster hair growth.
And the list can go on, but I’ll let you find out more about it from the book. You will find homemade treatments for your hair and lots of remedies for each part of your body.
Some of the recipes are:
Painkiller in a Jar- Herbal Parasite Flush
- Memory Elixir
- Medicinal Herbal Smoking Blend
- Heavy Metal Detoxifier
- Herbal Sleeping Pills
- Jello Flu Shots
- Hair Regeneration Tincture
- Deep-Nourishing Scalp Scrub
- Nature’s Hairline Restorer
- Overnight Hair Renewal Mask
- Herbal Hair Armor
- Root Awakening Tonic
- Follicle Reboot Elixir
- Penicillin Soup
- Heating Pad for Sore Throats
- Sedative for Panic Attacks
- Amish Cough Syrup
The Ultimate Hair Revival Elixir
You’ll need:
- 1 cup of beer (use flat beer; let it sit for a few hours if needed)
- 1 egg yolk (to boost protein for stronger, healthier hair – this step is optional)
- 1 tablespoon of honey (for hydration and moisture)
Instructions
- Let the Beer Go Flat: Pour your beer into a bowl and leave it out for a few hours to lose the fizz. Flat beer is way easier to mix and use.
- Mix It Up: In a bowl, whisk together the flat beer, an egg yolk, and some honey until it’s nice and smooth.
- Wet Your Hair: Rinse your hair with warm water to help it soak up all the good stuff.
- Put on the Mask: Section your hair and apply the mix from roots to tips, making sure every strand gets coated.
- Wrap It Up: Cover your hair with a towel or shower cap and let the mask sit for 15–20 minutes.
- Rinse It Out: Use cool or slightly warm water to rinse. You can skip the egg if that worries you!
For most hair types, use this mask once a week. If your hair’s super dry or damaged, try it twice a week until it looks better.
If you’re curious about remedies like the ancient plant that restores your hairline, nature’s Adderall, the #1 plant that can regrow your hair in 2 weeks, the DIY Liquid Morphine, the natural oil that makes your hair unbreakable, or to find what antibiotic is growing in your backyard, check out the Lost Remedies Academy.
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I’m ready to go home and try this! A coworker has beautiful hair that reaches her knees, and according to her it’s because she uses egg yolks in her hair about weekly. I’ve done it a few times, with amazing results. Just reading this article, I felt my hair respond the same way!
You can probably get the same results using mayonnaise instead of precious eggs which are starting to become very expensive. Eggs have better uses than to be putting them in your hair. As mayonnaise already has eggs in it I would think mayo is the better option. I’ve heard that people have used mayo in their hair with very good results. And as for washing you hair with beer that’s just plain sacrilegious. 😉 MUCH better uses for beer which is also becoming more and more expensive. If you want to get the benefits of the ingredients in beer just boil up some barley until it’s a mush. Throw in some hops and yeast and then throw that on your head. I’ve heard that turkey shit and honey works even better. LOL!
Will gluten free beer do the same thing? I have celiac and I don’t dare use this.