Homemade Essential Oil Shampoo and Body Soap: A Recipe

 Grab a 2-ounce bottle of whatever kind you like. The kind you get for travel works great. It can be plastic because you use it up so quickly that glass is unnecessary.

INGREDIENTS

1 T Vitamin E Oil

1 T Jojoba Oil

1 T Olive Oil

2 T Vegetable Glycerin

1 T Aloe Vera

2 T Water

15 drops lavender essential oil

10 drops rosemary essential oil

8 drops lemon essential oil

5 drops peppermint essential oil

5 drops tea tree oil essential oil

5 drops frankincense

Fill the rest of the bottle with liquid castile soap.

Shake it and use.

It's great for hair and body. It also works great for shaving.

TIPS

WARNING: At first, the expense of buying the supplies seems high. It is. However, you'll use them for multiple other products and these last a long time. In the end, you will save money. It's just that upfront cost that hurts. Moreover, they are not chemicals. So the health benefits are huge.

The aroma, adjust as you see fit. This is the combination that I use to help me with hair loss and frizz, and it grows my hair and moisturizes it. The smell isn't great but I care more about it working on my hair.

This will not have suds like other shampoos. It might, in fact, have not much suds at all. It's okay. Your hair is being cleaned. (If this is not acceptable, add more castile soap to your bottle.)

It takes time for your hair to get used to the product. My hair wasn't the same for a while and was a little lifeless. My scalp felt great but my hair wasn't right. I kept using the product anyway and eventually my hair got used to it. I think it had to detox. (No joke.) Now that my hair is used to it, it thrives.

It also takes some trial and error. So be patient with the process. It will pay off. Just keep trying.

If your hair is dry and/or frizzy when you are done, and your hair is dry, you might want to add another teaspoon of olive or jojoba oil to the bottle. Or use the leave-in spray I use (see below for recipe).

If your hair feels oily after use, you have 3 options:

1. When your hair is wet, take a small dime of plain castile soap and add water to it in the palm of your hand. Rub through your hair again and add a little water to it. Then massage through and rinse well.

2. Rinse your hair with a mixture of 2 Tablespoons of apple cider vinegar mixed with 4 T of water. Let it sit for a few minutes, then rinse with plain water and do so really well.

3. When your hair is dry, and you verify it is in fact too oily, you might want to take 1/10 of the mixture out and add to that space with castile soap. Save that 10%, you will use it up with your next round in a couple weeks. And if your hair is really bad right now, and too oily, wash it again with this new mixture. 

Should you use a conditioner afterward? It depends.

If your hair feels oily after the shampoo, no.

Does the leave-in conditioner (in the link listed below) take care of the rest of the moisture and control that's needed of your hair? If not, then do the conditioner listed below.

As far as using it for a body soap, it is antibacterial and cleans and moisturizes. I even have less age spots and have less hair on my legs from using it over time. I use it everywhere. It's freeing to know that I know everything that I put on my body and do not have the chemicals on and in my skin.

My husband uses it and says it works. He uses it for hair and body as well.

I went out of town and made the mistake of not bringing this with me and used the hotel products for a week. What could it hurt? My hair is still not quite right and my skin at the time was extremely dry and it looked like I used chalk on my body. I will not make that mistake again.

Adjust the recipe to whatever works for you. Just make sure to write down what you do so you don't forget. (I learned that the hard way.)

Do a search online for "Essential oils and hair" and you'll get more ideas as to what drops to use and for what purpose. Just keep the other ingredients the same.

You can replace the water with coconut milk. Just do not use the refrigerated stuff. Use the full fat kind. Use this up in a week if you use the coconut milk.

I get a huge jug of castile soap because I use if for laundry and other cleaning products, too. This saves money.

Keep trying this over the course of a couple of months. Keep adjusting as needed. I guarantee it will be worthwhile and you'll never look at the store-bought stuff again.

OTHER LINK

After Shampooing Rinse Out Conditioner

https://shininglightontheword.blogspot.com/2024/11/rinse-out-hair-conditioner.html

Leave-In Hair Conditioner Spray: https://shininglightontheword.blogspot.com/2024/11/leave-in-hair-conditioner.html