Bizarre beauty hacks experts love, including ketchup as hair toner

Just when you thought you’ve heard it all.Experts are revealing some of their bizarre yet best-kept beauty secrets, from using ketchup as hair toner to nipple cream for chapped lip relief.Say you’re in a pinch and need to tone down the green hues in your hair, Anita Rice, a co-founder of the London-based salon Buller and Rice, told The Guardian that ketchup is an at-home alternative, although they would “never” use it at the salon.“If bleached or light hair has a green hue after swimming, it’s easily available even on remote holidays,” she explained.“It works because the red coloring counteracts the green tones, while the acidity acts as a clarifying agent, helping to improve the purity of the color.”She recommends applying it to only the green areas of dry hair for 10 to 20 minutes before washing per usual.Other hair hacks include using sexual lubricant as a hair gel substitute for sleek ‘dos, which Evo Hair international color director and Olaplex ambassador Tom Smith calls “one of the oddest secrets in hairdressing.”“Session stylists often use it on celebrities before they hit the red carpet,” Smith dished, adding that the lube “defines the hair texture, adds an incredible wet-look shine and will not dry into the hair, unlike gels or mousses.”“Water-based or silicone-based lube will work, although if the hair has been pre-styled, silicone-based lube will retain the style’s shape while making hair appear wet – though it will require much more washing out afterwards.”Other tips and tricks from experts were Glycerin and rosewater products to moisturize and soothe the scalp, mixing the liquid from Vitamin E capsules into lotion to calm sunburns, cleansing the face with coconut oil and applying diaper rash cream to body rashes to stop itching.

Meanwhile, Dr.Leah Totton, a medical and cosmetic doctor and the founder of her namesake skin clinic, told The Guardian she swears by lanolin nipple cream for chapped lips and “to give...