How to Make Your Own Moisturising Shampoo in Five Simple Steps!
Today I will be going through how to make your own fresh, organic and most importantly moisturising shampoo. Going on holiday and spending all your time splashing about in the sea and in chlorine filled swimming pools, as lovely and therapeutic as it is, can play havoc with your moisture levels in your hair. For numerous reasons, relying on supermarket shampoos are not always helpful solution to this problem.
You may not know that the chemicals in our everyday cosmetics can actually be more harmful for us than what we think. Most super-market branded shampoos tend to contain a chemical called ‘Dioxin’ which is known to be responsible for most diseases caused during the Vietnam war. It was reported that most of the people who had actually been unfortunate to catch one of the diseases had in fact been in contact with ‘Dioxin’ yet we still find it in our everyday shampoo bottles?? You may also notice that Diethanolamine and Ethanolamine are often listed on the ingredients of your shampoo which are hormone disrupting chemicals and are known to form cancer causing nitrates and nitrosamine which is why I would advise anybody to stay away from packaged shampoo and get making your own!
So taking all this into account I have come up with a fun and easy way to make shampoo at home. By following my simple steps you will be a pro at making your own shampoo in no time.. Perfect for your summer holidays.
What you will need:
- 200ml Plastic Tub
- 60ml Water
- 60ml Liquid Castile Soap
- Essential oils/ teabags
- Vegetable oil/ Jojoba oil
- 1 Pan
Now, let’s see how we can make this beauty!
1.) Heat 60ml of water in a small saucepan. Make sure that you don’t bring the water to the boil as the water only needs to be heated a little.
2.) Choosing the scent of your shampoo will be the funnest part! And this is where you get to add them. You may want to add a rosemary teabag to your soap, or a few herbal oils to give the shampoo a silky and organic scent. There are many oils available in high street stores that you can have a look for, so see what you fancy! Adding these ingredients to the water will customise the colour and identity of your shampoo. But there’s still a couple more steps until this potion turns into real shampoo!
3.) Take mixture away from the heat and add the water and oils into your clean shampoo bottle.
4.) Now that you have your water in the bottle, it’s time to add your Liquid Castile Soap. This soap may be something that you have not heard of before but as more and more people are getting creative with their own produce, this stuff is available everywhere on-line if you struggle to find it in your nearest beauty stores. It is available in a wide range of scents from cherry to mint, but you can also use a non scented liquid soap so that the smells you added in Step 2 make it completely your own! You will need to add the 60ml of this Liquid Castile Soap to the bottle of your heated water and shake all that mixture together!
5.) So once you have made sure that all of those ingredients have been locked together, it’s time to add a little teaspoon of either jojoba or vegetable oil to ensure that your own shampoo gives you the shiniest, sleekest look that it can!
The final thing to consider is taking this organically created potion with you on holiday by purchasing some 100ml clear plastic containers from just about any Hair and Beauty based store or online.
Have fun making it and don't forget to leave your comments :)
