Make Your Own Shampoo

Learning to make your own shampoo can be thrilling in itself, but you may also find yourself saving money and doing amazing things for your hair in the process.

Save money by making shampoo.

If you do enough research for your own hair type, you can't get much more personal than custom made shampoo. You can create your own concoction great for smoothing your frizzies while giving your hair a beautiful natural boost.

In addition to tweaking your shampoo recipe until you get the perfect results for your hair, you're doing something else that is good for you and for the environment—eliminating the use of certain chemicals and reusing your shampoo bottle.

There are general shampoo ingredients found in homemade products regardless of hair type. You can tweak them with every batch until you get the one you like best based on how manageable your hair becomes and how much you like the scent of your new shampoo.

• Distilled Water: Use distilled water instead of tap water to prevent introducing impurities to your shampoo mix.
• Herbs: One common practice when it comes to making your own shampoo is to add herbs. You boil the water and let the herbs steep for about twenty minutes, making a sort of "hair tea" for your strands and scalp. Common herbs include rosemary (best for dark hair) and chamomile (best for light hair). Try sage if your hair is oily.
• Castile Soap: You can use the flakes or the liquid. This, of course, is what cleans your hair.
• Essential Oils: Sweet almond, lavender, avocado, olive, peppermint, and citrus oil are all common additions to homemade shampoo. They add aromatherapy benefits on top of making your hair more manageable. If you have dry hair, start by experimenting with sweet almond, olive, or avocado oil; they'll add the most moisture. Eucalyptus and tea tree oils are good for oily hair.
• Your old shampoo bottle: You might as well recycle, right? Pour your new mixture into your old, rinsed out shampoo bottle. When it's time to use your mixture, pour it directly onto your hair. Since the mixture will be thinner than what you buy at the drugstore, it could run through your fingers and down the drain if you pour it into your hands first.

Feel free to experiment with ingredients in small batches in order to find your specific perfect shampoo, but here are a few starting shampoo recipes for different hair types…

• 1 cup of distilled water
• 1/3 cup of Castile soap
• 2 Tbsp of avocado oil
• 2 Tbsp of chamomile or rosemary depending on hair color

Lavendar is a popular fragrance for shampoo.

Put the loose herbs into a tea strainer and steep in boiling water for 20 to 40 minutes. Mix the oil and Castile soap into the mixture once it's done steeping. Pour into your old shampoo bottle.

• 1 cup of distilled water
• 1/3 cup of liquid Castile soap
• 2 Tbsp of tea tree oil
• 2 Tbsp of sage
• 2 Tbsp of chamomile or rosemary, depending on hair color

Put the loose herbs into a tea strainer and steep in boiling water for 20 to 40 minutes. Mix the oil and Castile soap into the mixture once it's done steeping. Pour into your old shampoo bottle.

If you prefer to use Castile flakes, use four ounces of those mixed with one quart of water. Boil the water (if using dry herbs, steep them now for about twenty minutes) and then pour over the soap flakes and stir until the flakes dissolve. Add four to eight drops of the oil of your choice.

You may not get the suds you're used to when you make your own shampoo. Sodium laurel sulfate is a chemical found in products that produce suds, such as in the shampoos you can buy at your local drugstore. Don't worry, though; you don’t need the suds to get your hair clean, though it may take some time to get used to working with a non-lathering product.

Try to adjust your batches of shampoo so that you can use them up within about ten days. Since there are no preservatives inside, it's best not to use homemade shampoo that has been sitting in your shower for months. Once you know how to make shampoo, however, you’ll never be out of shampoo again!

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