Why You Should Never Use Microwaved Hot Oil Treatments For Your Hair

How often do you use hot oil treatments in your hair? If you’re like most naturals, you’re using it multiple times monthly.

Doing them offers our scalps and hair so many benefits, thanks to the nutrients that are found in our favorite oils, like coconut* and olive.

The main purpose of hot oil treatments is to use heat to help these wonderful oils soak into our strands and scalp. Unfortunately, the goodness of these oils are being zapped right out when we place them in the microwave.

Sure, the microwave is a quick and easy way to warm up your oils, and is fairly convenient, but at what cost? Hopefully, after reading this, you will have a different take on how to warm up your oils and why the method you choose is very important.

It is proven that microwaves are not great for oils

Oils have minerals, vitamins* and nutrients and that’s what you use them for. But when you place the oils inside of the “nuke” machine, it does a number on the oil. It literally kills all of the goodness that was once inside, leaving behind something unknown to nature.

Not only does your microwave zap out all of the essentials from your oils, but it also transforms it into something that’s dangerous to your body. When scientific studies were performed, it revealed startling results about the appliance we all believed was safe to begin with:

►In a 1997 study, it was found that vegetable oils as well as popularly used virgin olive oil* were degraded when microwaved (caused by oxidation, which reduces antioxidants). The same also happens when olive oil* is cooked at high temperatures so it’s very important to mind the temperature even when warming it on the stove.

►When broccoli was placed inside a microwave with minimal water, it killed 97% of its antioxidants. Just to give you an idea, when you steam cook broccoli, it only loses 11% of its antioxidants or less.

►Cooking asparagus in the microwave reduced its content of vitamin C*.

►By heating up garlic for one minute, it deactivated its cancer-fighting ingredient known as allinase.

►Carcinogens (cancer-causing agents) were found inside of nearly all the microwaved foods that were tested.

►Heating up grains and milk inside of a microwave converted their amino acids into carcinogenic substances.

►Warming up prepared meat also caused formations of carcinogens like d-Nitrosodienthanolamines.

►Veggies that were raw, frozen or cooked had their alkaloids converted into carcinogens.

►Root vegetables had carcinogenic free radicals form within them.

A whopping 60-90% of all the microwaved foods tested showed significant decreases in B complex vitamins*, as well as vitamin C* and E, lipotropics and essential minerals.

If you read the entire list, you can see that the word carcinogen pops up a heck of a lot. So those who are still wondering about whether or not microwaves promote cancer, there goes your answer!

But that’s not all, microwaves have also been connected to a variety of other illnesses and symptoms, including headaches, dizziness, swollen lymph nodes, impaired cognition, weakened immune system, irritability, depression, appetite loss, night sweats, insomnia, nausea, vision problems and frequent urination.

Still, these symptoms have also been linked to other radiation-producing devices like cell phones, cell phone towers and Wi-Fi routers (but that’s another story).

How to properly warm your oils* for hair treatments

Unless you don’t mind placing dead, carcinogenic oils into your scalp, you should instead resort to other methods that are just as simple. Remember, whatever you put onto your skin absorbs, so you can imagine what putting that onto your head for many years could do to your brain!

Likely, you’ve seen people do this before with hard oils* like shea and chilled coconut oil* — all you have to do is place the oil inside of a glass or metal bowl, and set it inside of a pot of water that is set on medium.

You don’t want the water to boil because it will produce too much heat, which will also kill the nutrients within your oils. Just keep an eye on it and once it’s warm enough, set it aside and use it.

Keep this method in mind if you are one who likes to melt hard butters* for hair or body use. You don’t want to radiate anything that is going to seep into your skin. Also, never place the oil or butter directly into a heated pot because this will warm it up too much, and will again alter the nutritional state.

As naturals, we have to be mindful of what we put into and onto our bodies. If we aren’t keen about using chemicals on our locks, then why would we allow radiated oils?

This poses a huge health risk that can and should be avoided by all means. The method I present takes a little more work, but can’t the same be said for maintaining natural hair?

You decided to take this journey even with all the hard work and resistance needed to get the results you want. So don’t start to slack now!

Are you surprised to learn about the damaging effects of microwaves? Will you continue to use it or will you take heed and use the stove top instead?