Make your own organic shampoo

Everyone needs them and especially women love them in all variations – hair shampoos. They make hair particularly shiny, tame tangled ends, enchant with their scent and repair brittle ends. Almost every woman knows which hair shampoo is best for her own hair and the individual hair structure. But do you know how healthy your shampoo really is? In order to avoid hidden and unhealthy chemical ingredients, it makes sense to homemade organic hair shampoo instead of resorting to conventional shampoos.

DIY shampoo: hair has to change

So healthy one homemade shampoo for the hair, an implementation of the care routine never goes unnoticed. Depending on the hair type, the roots of the hair become greasy faster or the tips appear drier. Every hair reacts differently to different active ingredients, feel free to try something out so that you find the best care and the hair can get used to the new ingredients of the DIY natural shampoo. If you permanently suffer from heavy and greasy hair, it may well be that you use a rich care product. Similar to buying shampoo in the drugstore, it is worth adapting the shampoo you have made yourself to the special needs of your hair so that it looks wonderfully well-groomed and healthy.

DIY: Make your own shampoo – the ingredients

Um shampoo on soap base produce, you need natural soap or olive soap. Curd soap also works as an alternative. For the liquid soap as a base shampoo, grate 15 grams of soap and mix with 250 milliliters of boiling distilled water. Stir gently until the soap flakes have dissolved. When the mixture has cooled down to 35 °C, you can add oils and herbs and fill the shampoo in a shampoo bottle.

For dry hair: coconut milk, egg yolk, olive, almond & castor oil

Dry hair and dry scalp need a lot of care and moisture. This makes it all the easier to make a moisturizing shampoo yourself: high-fat coconut milk (from a can), egg yolk, as well as olive, castor and almond oil are particularly suitable for this. The fat in the products moisturizes and nourishes the scalp and prevents dandruff and itching. The substances care for and protect the hair and hair lengths, moisturize and the oil film gently wraps around the hair.

For quickly greasy hair: cedar oil, tea tree oil, baking soda, healing earth, lemon and nettle

You can also make your own hair shampoo for quickly greasy hair. The home remedies baking soda and healing earth have a strong degreasing property, while lemon ensures a natural pH value on the scalp and reduces fat production. Nettle, tea tree and cedar oil also soothe the scalp.

Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory: rosemary, honey, healing clay, lemon and cinnamon

Rosemary oil, honey, healing earth, lemon and cinnamon can also be added to the basic shampoo. They have an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect. Healing earth also supplies the scalp with minerals, lemon balances the pH value and removes fat and other residues from the hair.

Essential oils and herbs against dandruff

Blonde hair shine: chamomile and lemon

For a shiny blonde, boil strong chamomile tea and add to the basic shampoo you have made yourself. In addition, chamomile and lemon juice gently lighten the hair.

For shiny brown and black hair: black tea and coffee

To make the hair color appear stronger, stronger black tea and coffee can also be added to the base shampoo. The tea and coffee wrap around the hair like a film and make the color appear more even.

Basic recipe: Make your own shampoo without a soap base

In fact, you can also wash your hair with soap-free shampoo. The common methods are rye flour and healing earth, lava earth and clay.

rye flour
Depending on the length of your hair, mix 4-5 tablespoons of rye flour with warm water to form a gel-like mass. Massage the mixture into your hair and scalp and leave on for about 30 minutes. Then rinse thoroughly. For long hair, brush through again when dry.

Important: Only use rye flour! All other types of flour contain the sticky protein gluten, which sticks the mixture together and is difficult to get out of your hair. In addition, the shampoo should always be freshly prepared, as it ferments during storage.

Healing earth, lava earth and clay
These earth strains are good for oily hair. For the shampoo, mix 1-2 tbsp with water. The more liquid the mixture, the better it can be distributed in the hair. Distribute the soil mixture through the hair and scalp and leave on for five to ten minutes. Then rinse well. The shampoo can be prepared for multiple uses.

Storage and shelf life of homemade hair shampoo

Oil-based shampoos have a shelf life of up to 6 months. However, if you also use perishable foods such as milk or egg yolk, you should keep the shampoo in the refrigerator for no longer than 7-10 days. Shampoos with herbs and herbal extracts, tea or coffee should also be used within a week. If you prefer shampoos made from clay, lava or healing clay that are only mixed with water, you can also prepare them for several hair washes and weeks and keep them at room temperature.

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Which ingredients in conventional shampoos are unhealthy?

• silicones
• paraben
• sulfate
• microplastics
• paraffin
• formaldehyde

silicones are plastics that wrap around the hair when it is washed and seal it so that nourishing fats and moisture can no longer reach the hair. Silicones are often also deposited on the scalp, which means that sweat and pollutants can no longer be excreted through the pores. This can result in a burning, itchy, irritated and dandruff-prone scalp. Silicones are also problematic for the environment. Every time you wash your hair, parts of the plastic get into the waste water, which can no longer be completely filtered out. On the packaging, silicones usually end with the suffix “-cone” and “-xane”. Other designations are Dimethiconol, Trideceth-12 or Hydroxypropyl.

paraben on the other hand, are chemical compounds that have an antibacterial and fungicidal effect. They are often used in cosmetics and shampoos, although they are suspected of promoting allergies and hormonal imbalances. You can recognize the preservative by the “-paraben” suffix, for example as methyl and ethyl paraben, butyl and propane paraben, isopropyl, pentyl and phenyl paraben, and benzyl paraben.

sulfate are the salt of sulfuric acid and are used in cosmetics as so-called sodium lauryl sulfate. They pull dirt into the hair and ensure that the shampoo foams. The problem with sulfates is that they dry out the scalp, leading to skin irritation and a tight and flaky scalp. Sulphate allergies and skin problems can also occur. Sulfates also irritate facial skin and mucous membranes, are compounded through the skin, and then show up in the body. Breathing it in can also irritate the lungs. Sulfates can be recognized by the designations SLS (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate) and ALS (Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate).

microplastics has properties similar to silicones in that they also deposit and seal in the hair. Microplastics are also bad for the environment, as they accumulate in water, seas and soil. The most commonly used microplastics in shampoos are Polyquaternium-7 (in shower gel) and Polyquaternium-10 in shampoos and conditioners.

paraffin are mineral oils that accumulate on the scalp like an airtight film. As a result, the scalp can no longer absorb moisture, causing it and the hair to dry out. Designations for paraffins are Mineral Oil, Paraffinum Liquidum, Cera Microcristallina, Ozokerite, Petrolatum, Paraffin Wax and Oil, Ceresin and Microcrystallina.

formaldehyde is considered to be severely irritating to the skin and respiratory tract. In sensitive people, the substance can also cause sleep and memory disorders. In 2004, the substance was classified as carcinogenic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Nevertheless, the substance can be found in numerous beauty products. Since formaldehyde must be declared from a content of 0.05%, formaldehyde releasers are usually used, which do not have to be declared. That’s what makes spotting formaldehyde on shampoo bottles.

In the best case, a look at the list of ingredients is enough to identify harmful ingredients in shampoos. However, since this is usually very long and filled with many chemical terms, scanner apps are suitable for quickly gaining certainty. With the apartment “Code Check” YOU can scan and check the barcode of cosmetics and also food.

Pros & cons of homemade shampoo

Hair care tip: Curd soap is often used as the basis for homemade shampoos, as it has an alkaline and degreasing effect. Your hair should also be treated with a conditioner to neutralize it. You can of course also make this yourself!