5 Benefits of Avocado for Natural Hair

 By Toia Barry

Avocado has been used for years for skin, hair, and overall health. But what benefits does avocado offer for your natural curls, coils, and kinks? We discuss a few in today’s blog post!

Why is Avocado Good for Hair?

The natural oils and vitamins in avocado make it a great natural ingredient due to the moisturizing qualities and nourishing qualities of oils and vitamins. Oftentimes, we hear that avocados have “good” fats for eating, but they also have “good” fats for hair. Whether you are applying a hair mask, or using hair oils, one ingredient you can start to keep an eye out for is avocado. Avocado is especially great for people with dry or damaged hair.

Avocado Benefits for Hair

Due to the nourishing qualities of the vitamins and natural oils in avocado, there are many avocado benefits for hair. Some of the main benefits include:

• Avocado is a natural moisturizer
• Avocado can prevent hair loss & promote longer, healthier hair
• Avocado helps to strengthen hair
• Avocado acts as a natural sunscreen for hair to help protect hair in the sun
• Avocado helps reduce frizz

1. Avocado is a Natural Moisturizer

As a curly girl, you may have issues with dry hair. Due to the curls and coils, the natural oil produced by the scalp (sebum) takes longer to travel down the length of our strands. For that reason, we need a little help to add moisture to our hair. High levels of monounsaturated fatty acids – aka, the good fats – make avocados great as a natural moisturizer for our hair.

Weather extremes like overexposure to heat from the sun or the cold of winter can cause hair to become dry, as well as using too much heat in the form of styling tools. If we’re not careful, this can ultimately lead to split ends and breakage. Avocado and avocado-rich products can give our dry hair just the moisturizing it needs.

When hair is well-moisturized, breakage is less likely to occur, and you retain more length! Our Moisturizing Avocado Hair Milk and the entire Moisture RX Hawaiian Ginger Collection has you covered by hydrating hair that’s yearning for moisture. But there’s even more to gain from avocado!

2. Avocado Can Prevent Hair Loss & Promote Longer, Stronger Hair

The reparative properties of Vitamin E are responsible for the healing benefits of avocado, which is proven to be super beneficial for overall hair and scalp health.

As you may know, healthy hair starts from a healthy scalp. Damage to the scalp can slow down or prevent hair retention. Vitamin E can repair this damage to promote scalp health, which ultimately leads to healthy hair. Its antioxidant properties can help keep hair follicles unclogged to allow nutrients in and encourage longer, healthier hair.

Our Sea Moss Anti-Shedding Shampoo & Conditioner contains avocado properties that work to promote longer, stronger hair. Sea Moss removes product build-up, leaving your hair soft, cleansed and moisturized.

3. Avocado Strengthens Hair

Avocados are rich in protein as well as Vitamin B, which is an essential vitamin for optimal hair health. These, along with those good fats and Vitamin E, make the hair strong, healthy, soft and shiny.

Our Rosemary Mint Strengthening Conditioner provides the perfect balance of strength and moisture to improve the overall condition of the hair and scalp. 

4. Avocado Protects Hair

The monounsaturated fatty acids in avocado help to increase the absorption of vitamins and minerals by the hair and scalp, and they also makes avocado oil a natural sunscreen, helping to protect the hair from weather extremes.

Avocado oil also has a high smoke point, making it great as a heat protectant when straightening or doing a blow-out. Our Avocado & Tamanu Stay Straight Serum uses Cold Application Technology to seal hair and provide up to 450 degrees of heat protection.

     5. Avocado Helps Reduce Frizz

Studies have shown that the minerals contained in avocados help seal the hair cuticles — plus, the combined potassium and magnesium gives a smooth and shiny frizz-free appearance.

Designed for both curly and straight hair, our new Avocado & Tamanu Anti-Frizz Collection is formulated with cold application technology that specifically targets frizz. Borrowed from popular skincare trends, this cold science naturally closes the hair’s cuticles and helps achieve long-lasting smoothness.

What is Avocado Oil?

To make avocado oil, the green part (or the flesh) of a cold avocado is pressed, extracting the oil from the fruit. Avocado oil is what is typically used in various cosmetic or hair products due to the rich nutrients in avocados. Organic avocado oil is the ingredient that is found in several of our products.

How to Use Avocado for Hair

Whether you are looking for shampoo for natural hair that has avocado as an ingredient or you want to make your own homemade avocado hair mask, avocado is a wonderful natural ingredient that can benefit you in more ways than one. Of course, you can also work from the inside out by eating avocado. It’s a tasty and nutritious way to get all those benefits right into the bloodstream for a healthy body, skin, and hair!

How have you used avocado for your natural hair and how has your hair improved? Let us know in the comments!