H'Suan Wen Hua! (Dupe)

Difficulty: Easie peasie 

The title may have been a little, teeny tiny exaggeration. This is not an exact dupe of Lush's "H'Suan Wen Hua", however it has a few of the main ingredients. But don't close the page yet, this is a pretty nifty hair smoothie I've put together!

The idea came to me after I had eaten a bad 'gassed' banana (shops freeze-gas bananas to preserve them) and it just didn't taste right. I put it down to my taste-buds being out of action because I was sick, a couple of hours later I had the worst stomach pains. The next morning I was pretty annoyed, there were a bunch of bananas that I brought just the day before and we couldn't even eat them. I had two choices, return them to the shops to swap for others which would have also been gassed or throw them away. Being brought up not to waste food and I wasn't game on digesting anymore, I looked for another usage. Before this happened I was reading the ingredients of H'Suan Wen Hua (since they claim their stuff is handmade, so it would be pretty easy to dupe, yes?) and hey look at that, it has bananas in it. 

After a little bit of researching on other edible products that are good for your hair, I came up with this:

1 banana
1 avocado
1 egg
3 tablespoons of olive oil (You may also want to use jojoba oil if you can get your hands on it.)
1 tablespoon of yogurt
1 tablespoon of honey
Handful of oats (optional, however they do make hair super shiny!)


My main objective to this recipe was to make a hair mask (calling it a smoothie, since it sounds like you could just drink it!) was to make it from things that are in your fridge/pantry. I cheated a little and brought an avocado and some oats. Thankfully I brought a blender earlier this year, because for this recipe you'll need one or a fantastic skill and blending by hand. 

The method is really simple, just blend all ingredients together until smooth. My first attempt I tried without the blender out of laziness but it didn't come together the way I liked, using a blender is 100% easier. I blended the oats separately and used them as a thickener once I finished, however you can just add them in with everything when blending just make sure they are pre-blended into powder before adding to the mixture. 

And that's it! This recipe made me 400g before adding the oats, remember to keep it chilled in the fridge and try to use it within the month. To use, all you need to do is add to clean hair, wrap it up in cling-wrap or a shower cap and leave in for at least an hour (I left mine in longer, got carried away in Minecraft). I also wrapped my hair in a towel, which helped the cling-wrap keep the heat in - and the smell since I'm not a huge fan on banana's! The only issue I found was when I was rinsing my hair was some of the grounded up oats were sticking to my hair (might have been because I added them separately), I have a brush in my shower and they brushed out nicely. Shampoo twice to make sure it's all out, condition your hair and blow dry when damp.

Enjoy! ;)


If you're wondering what happened to the rest of the bananas, I froze them for future use. Considering about blending a huge amount of this recipe up, putting it in small containers and freezing it to use at my on leisure. If it get's watery when defrosting I'll just add more oats!

Oats, oats, oats!!
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