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"I&amp;#39;m obsessed with reading about and bookmarking DIY beauty treatments but so rarely take the time to try them, so here&amp;#39;s my new pet project: A weekly series of blog posts in which I&amp;#39;ll get my hands dirty and test out all the crazy skin/hair concoctions you can whip up in your kitchen. The first recipe I tried not only proved amazing for deep-conditioning hair but you can drink the delicious leftovers. Now that&amp;#39;s a DIY beauty treatment after my own heart.\nMy main criteria for choosing the first beauty recipes I&amp;#39;d try: ingredients that aren&amp;#39;t too exotic (or better yet, ones I already have in my kitchen). And I&amp;#39;m not going to lie, I was trying to find a use for a bag of limes and container of coconut milk left over from making this coconut-lime chicken recipe (SO GOOD) on Friday night. Well the limes will have to wait for next week--I&amp;#39;m thinking DIY citrus face peel--because Google led me to this delicious-sounding banana milkshake hair conditioner that would make use of that leftover coconut milk (and I already had the bananas and honey too). The other reason I chose this as my first weekend beauty recipe is that the creator, Crunchy Betty, seems super legit. A lot of DIY beauty treatments you find randomly online seem a little dicey, you know? Like, you know you&amp;#39;re going to end up spending all day in the shower trying to wash off that egg-yolk-salt--canola-oil-and-Betty-Crocker-frosting concoction someone convinced you to coat yourself in.\nBut Crunchy Betty advised strong caution against ending up with banana chunks in my hair, so yeah, I trusted her. And thank God I did--what an amazing, easy DIY conditioning hair treatment.\nIngredients:\n3 bananas (2 if your hair isn&amp;#39;t super-long like mine)\n*Coconut milk (or whole milk)\nHoney (you can skip if you don&amp;#39;t have--it just adds moisturizing oomph)*\nPinterestFacebookStep 1: Mush the bananas.\nPinterestFacebookYou can mush &amp;#39;em with a fork or regular blender, but I was eager to bust out my new immersion blender (I&amp;#39;m SO making this soup later). Note: [This step is even more fun when your two year old accompanies it by singing the mash-mash bananas/go-bananas song.] Mix until there are NO chunks, just a batch of banana slime.\nStep 2: Add your other ingredients.\nPinterestFacebookPinterestFacebookKeep drizzling coconut milk (or milk) in until the consistency is similar to your typical store-bought conditioner. I got distracted and made mine too watery, but it still worked (just caused more of a mess). Then add the honey if you want.\nStep 3: Let your hair drink up the banana milkshake. Then feel free to drink any leftovers.\nApply your banana-coconut mix to dry hair in the shower or over the sink. {Sorry, no pics--I was all messy and could not figure out how to not ruin my camera. Maybe next time!} Use enough to saturate your scalp and hair, then put on a shower cap or towel and chill for 20 minutes. Crunchy Betty recommends leaving it on while you take a relaxing bath, to prevent possibly dripping banana milkshake all over your house. But if you have a small dog to follow you around and promptly clean up any sprinkles, as I do, that&amp;#39;s really not a problem. I twisted my hair and clipped it, then put on an old gym headband and shower cap, and it wasn&amp;#39;t too insanely sloppy while I sat down to do some work. Oh, and re: drinking the leftovers: My daughter is now ADDICTED to this banana milkshake too! Ha!\nStep 4: Wash your hair as usual.\nBe sure to get all the banana out, obvs. You don&amp;#39;t want to smell like them and get attacked by a monkey, because you&amp;#39;re going to have really amazing, shiny, healthy-looking hair that&amp;#39;s in need of showing off! Seriously--so shiny and hydrated. This is a fantastic DIY version of my beloved [expensive] Bumble and Bumble Creme de Coco Masque.\nThanks again to Crunchy Betty for the recipe! I&amp;#39;m quite sure I&amp;#39;ll be cooking up something else from your site soon.\nAnyone going to try the banana milkshake hair mask? Got another beauty recipe/DIY beauty treatment you want me to pre-try for you, or that you&amp;#39;ve tried and loved? Tell me about it in the comments below and maybe I&amp;#39;ll use it for this weekly post!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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