Homemade Shampoo

Beauty & Fashion, Homemade Beauty — By Informed Edinburgh on April 1, 2010 at 1:08 pm

Lemon and Apple Zest

Ingredients:
1 oz. Olive oil
1 egg
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar.

To make:
Combine all ingredients in a blender. Blend until well combined.

To Use:
Use like regular shampoo. Discard any leftovers.

Herbal Shampoo

Ingredients:

Cloves and Ground Walnut shells will highlight dark hair colors.

Lavender is good for oily hair.

Parsley improves the shine of your hair and helps prevent dandruff as does Rosemary.

Lime flowers will soften and conditions your hair as does Thyme.

Nasturtium helps your hair to gain healthy growth.

Sage will not only color dark and gray hair it will condition it.

To Make:

The easiest way to make herbal shampoo is to start with a gentle base of commercial shampoo and then add you own herbal infusions and a few drops of essential oil to scent your hair.

Baby shampoo is a good mild soap to use in adding herbals. You will need to add one part shampoo to five parts herbal infusion.

To Use:
Use like regular shampoo.

Natural Conditioner

Ingredients:
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp olive oil
3/4 cup lukewarm water

How to make:
Beat the egg yolk until it’s thick and white. Add the oil and mix well. Then add the water into the egg mixture and mix well.

To use:
Massage into clean, damp hair. Rinse with plenty of warm water after about 10 minutes.

Avocado and Coconut Conditioner

Ingredients:
Avocado
Coconut Milk

How to make:
Combine mashed avocado with some coconut milk.

To use:
Comb it through the hair and let sit for 10 -15 minutes, rinse out.

Mayonnaise and Avocado Hair Mask

Ingredients:
1 small jar of real mayonnaise
1/2 of an avocado

How to make:
Put together in a medium bowl and squish together with your hands until it’s a minty green color.

To use:
Smooth into hair all the way to the tips. Put on a shower cap or wrap your head with cling film. Leave on for 20 minutes. For deeper conditioning put a hot, damp towel around your head -over the saran wrap. And if you have really long hair and only need deep conditioning at the ends, cut the ingredients in half and apply only to the ends and just wrap them.

Fruit Smoothie Hair Mask

Ingredients:
1/2 a banana
1/4 avocado
1/4 cantaloupe
1 tablespoon wheat germ oil
1 tablespoon yogurt
vitamin E capsule.

How to make:
Blend all together

To use:
Massage into hair and leave in hair for 15 minutes.

Ravishing Rosemary Conditioner

Ingredients:
Rosemary essential oil

How to use:
Add a few drops of rosemary essential oil to the palms of your hands, work through out your entire hair.
for 10 minutes then rinse off

Apple Cider Softness

Ingredients:
1-2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
3 cups distilled water

How to make:
Mix together

To use:
Pour over your hair as the final rinse. It will leave your hair feeling soft. Good for all hair types

Hot Oil Treatment

Ingredients:
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup boiling water

How to make:
Place olive oil and boiling water into large glass bottle or jar with a lid. You may need to wrap a towel around the bottle to avoid burning yourself. Shake very well until oil is emulsified.

To use:
Massage into hair, taking care not to burn your head. Put a shower cap or plastic bag over your hair and wrap your head in a hot towel that has been soaked in hot water then wrung out. Leave mixture on your hair for 1/2 hour, then shampoo as usual

Cucumber hair Drench

If you swim in a chlorinated pool on a regular basis, the same damage you’ve noticed happening to your skin and bathing suit, is happening to your hair too. Try this treatment at home to keep chlorine damage to a minimum.

Ingredients:
1 egg
1 eggshell’s worth of olive oil
1 quarter of a peeled cucumber

To make:
Blend the egg, olive oil and peeled cucumber.

To use:
Spread evenly through your hair, leave on for 10 minutes, then thoroughly rinse. For the best results year-round, continue this treatment monthly.

Build Up Remover

Ingredients:
Baking Soda

To use:
Rub in and rinse thoroughly, then shampoo with your regular shampoo.

Vinegar Hair Rinse

Vinegar rinses can do wonders!

The acidity from the vinegar helps take away built up in the hair such as those nasty forms of silicones found in many shampoos and conditioners today, helps breaks down excess oils, and also helps remove extra glycerin from the hair that can leave hair “waxy” feeling for those that use the more natural approach of soap shampoo bars.

It can also actually help condition hair by gently smoothing the hair shaft making it less prone to breakage and giving it a nice shiny appearance

Honey Hair Rinse

Ingredients:
1 teaspoon of honey
4 cups of warm water
1 drop of your favorite essential oil or perfume

How to make:
Mix together

To use:
Wash hair as you would normally. After you are done pat dry and add this mixture to your hair slowly covering all of your hair strands. Let your hair air dry for a shiny and soft feeling.

Herbal Vinegar Hair Rinse

Ingredients:
2 cups of cider vinegar
2 oz of lavender buds
1 tablespoon of glycerin
10 drops of rose geranium essential oil
How to make:
Heat the vinegar to just below boiling point. Remove from heat and add the lavender buds. Pour the mixture into a jar and allow to age for a week. Strain the lavender out and add the glycerin and rose geranium. Store in the refrigerator.

To use:
Take 4 oz of your lavender vinegar and add it to 4 cups of warm water. Use this as your hair rinse.

Hair Spray

This all natural hair spray will leave your hair with a light, fresh lemony scent.

Ingredients:
1 lemon
2 cups of water

How to make:
Cut the lemon over a glass bowl to catch the juice. Add the lemon pieces and the water to the bowl and set the bowl in a pot of simmering water. Simmer until the lemon water mixture has been reduced by half. Pour it through a piece of cheesecloth to strain out the lemon pieces. Let the liquid cool, and then transfer it to a clean spray bottle.

The hair spray will keep for up to a week in the fridge. If it is too sticky, add more water. Add one ounce rubbing alcohol as a preservative and then the spray can be stored for up to two weeks unrefrigerated.

To use:
spray as normal hairspray