There are many benefits to using olive oil on the hair. The most common benefit is as a moisturizer. It contains vitamin E and fatty acids that help condition, replenish, hydrate and nourish the scalp and hair allowing it to be more manageable. By keeping the hair and scalp healthy, the olive oil hair treatments help hair to grow strong and to slow the process of thinning hair or baldness. Dandruff and lice are two conditions that can be treated with olive oil for hair techniques.

There are several olive oil for hair treatments out there.
1. Requires: Half cup of olive oil, a towel, a shower cap, a pot and access to a stove.

• Warm up a half-cup of olive oil on the stove. Be sure it is a little warmer than room temperature.
• Using small amounts of olive oil at a time adding as needed, massage the olive oil into the hair. If a person has a dry scalp, gently massage a little olive oil onto the scalp.
• When complete, cover the head with a shower cap. Leave the shower cap on for 30 minutes.
• At the end, shampoo and condition the hair.

2. Requires: Half cup of olive oil, a towel, a shower cap, a bowl, a tablespoon, and access to a microwave.

• Shampoo the hair and dry with a towel.
• Then, using a tablespoon of olive oil adding more as needed, pour the olive oil into a bowl and warm in the microwave for approximately twenty seconds.
• Using small amounts of olive oil and adding as needed, gently massage the olive oil into the scalp and hair.
• When finished, cover the head with a shower cap and place a towel over the shower cap to keep the heat in.
• At the end, wash out the olive oil with water and then shampoo the hair again.

3. Requires: a half of a cup of olive oil, a few drops of an essential oil of your choice for fragrance, a container with a lid, and a shower cap or plastic bag with clips.

• Mix the olive oil with the essential oil. One can do this by pouring approximately a half-cup of olive oil into a container and then adding a few drops of an essential oil into the container.
• Place the lid on the container and then gently shake the container.
• Before using the mixture, it needs to be set in a cool darkened area for twenty-four hours.
• When the olive oil for hair is ready, begin by rinsing the hair with warm water.
• Shake the olive oil for hair mixture gently and massage a small amount of oil into the scalp and hair.
• When done, cover the head with a shower cap or a plastic bag securing it with clips. Keep the olive oil for hair mixture in the hair for approximately 30 minutes.
• After the 30 minutes, rinse out the olive oil for hair mixture and shampoo.