Get Clean Hair Naturally by Making Your Own Shampoo
by Kristie Leong M.D.

If you want to avoid exposure to potentially dangerous synthetic chemicals in shampoo, try making your own. It's fun and easy!

Have you read the ingredient list on your bottles of shampoo? If you spend any time reading these bottles, you can usually find two or three ingredients that are known through medical studies to be toxic to animals and man including such ingredients as propylene glycol, isopropyl alcohol, and distearate. Do you really want to be exposed to these potentially harmful ingredients? Fortunately, there is a solution. You can learn how to make shampoo right in your own kitchen.

Shampoo making is not difficult or time consuming. It's best to start with a standard base of castile soap, found at your local health food store, and then add special ingredients to give you shampoo the right thickness, moisturizing properties, and fragrance. If you want to get more deeply into shampoo making, there are various internet sources that sell shampoo making ingredients.

Standard Shampoo Recipe:

1. Collect fresh herbs of your choice to add to your shampoo. The herbs are mainly for scent, although some such as lavender may help a bit with flaking of the scalp. You may want to do a bit of reading about herbs and their properties. Place the fresh herbs in a glass jar.

2. Boil one cup of water on the stove and pour over your selected herbs.

3. Allow the herb mixture to sit for 30 minutes.

4. Use a strainer to separate the liquid from the herbs. Place the herbal liquid into a bowl.

5. Add several drops of essential oil for scent.

6. . Make sure everything is thoroughly mixed before transferring to a bottle for storage.

You'll probably need to experiment a bit with different herb and essential oil combinations before you come up with the formulation that's ideal for your hair type. Why not explore the world of herbs by visiting your local library and reading about the unique properties of each herbal mixture?

6. Making your own shampoo can save you time and money. Plus, you can avoid exposure to potentially dangerous synthetic chemicals. It feels good to have beautiful, naturally clean hair!

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