There is no shortage of haircare products on store shelves these days, especially ones that promise silky, smooth strands.
While you can splash cash on these often expensive treatments, you can also opt for cheaper home remedies that work just as well. A woman has hailed one hair mask recipe passed down by her grandmother, which she says produces "frizz-free" locks.
However, the one catch is its less than pleasant odour, but she said the results are worth putting up with the smell. Taking to social media to share an explanation, TikTok user @Lifegamer03 revealed the moisturising formula that her nan used as a child.
Even better, it contains natural ingredients that can be found in most kitchen cupboards, but you wouldn't think to eat them together. The nourishing hair mask contains white rice, oatmeal, half a banana, one raw egg - and mayonnaise, the Mirror reports.
Sporting a bonnet covering her entire head, the tipster said in a video: "We only had the oatmeal, egg, and mayo growing up but the banana helps mask the mayo. Hair do be frizz-free and silky after though!"
The clip featured a caption over it that read: "Me forcing myself to put mayo, one raw egg, aloe vera, white rice, oatmeal, and half a banana as a hair mask, because when my grandma used to do it to me as a kid I had the longest, silkiest, frizz-free hair ever."
She recommended doing it once every three weeks to get best results, despite captioning the video: "The mayo smell is what gets me", followed by a vomiting face.
In the comments, people were shocked by the combination of ingredients, with one pointing out that you'd need to rinse your hair with cold water so the "egg doesn't cook."
Someone said: "First time making a banana hair mask I didn't know you had to blend it and so I spent hours getting it out of my hair with a lice comb", followed by a crying emoji.
Another wrote: "I remember doing this for every wash day, but when the mixture would start DRIPPING down my face and neck, I couldn't handle it anymore."
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