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Customized Shampoo for Your Hair Type
Adapted from Natural Beauty Basics, by Dorie Byers (Vital Health Publishing, 2001).
Here’s an easy way to turn your store-bought shampoo into the perfect fit for your hair type: By adding just one ingredient. Dry, oily, or normal hair will benefit from this quick fix–and your hair will smell marvelous, too.
Learn how to turn your bottle of shampoo into a personalized spa experience for healthier and more beautiful hair, here:
The secret is essential oils.
FORMULA
1 tablespoon shampoo (please use an all-natural kind; baby shampoo is best)
4 drops essential oil for your hair type (see below)
1. Mix the essential oil of your choice into the shampoo.
2. Apply to wet hair, gently rubbing into hair and scalp, then rinse until all traces of shampoo are gone. Dry and style as usual.
Essential Oils for Your Hair Type
DRY HAIR: Lavender, carrot seed, sandalwood, cedar wood.
OILY HAIR: Lemon, bergamot, juniper, rosemary, thyme, or ylang-ylang.
NORMAL: Patchouli, juniper, rosemary, lavender, geranium, clary sage.
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add your comment »Andie G.- The shampoo was Lemon-Up and it was great way back when. Now I use the baby shampoo and either lavender oil in it/ or rosemary rinse. Works even better.
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The Journal of The American College of Toxicology reported that concentrations of these chemicals as low as 0.5 percent could cause irritation and concentrations of 10 to 30 percent caused skin corrosion and severe irritation. Avoid the harmful chemicals without sacrificing any of the beauty by making your own customized shampoo.
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A kind of toothpaste can be made of calciumcarbonate (powder), baking soda and peppermint oil. One doesn't have to use so much of it, just dot some and brush gently. It's a little different, but in time one gets used to it, it does not neccessary HAVE to foam I think.. maybe someone have a more advanced formula..(:
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Okay, I just bought Organix smoothing shea butter shampoo because it says "sulfate free" on the back, but it also says it has "disodium laureth sulfosuccinate". Isn't anything with the word "laureth" unsafe? I can't find this brand on the "skin deep" database.
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Hello,
I have just purchased an Eco Organic Shampoo with ingredients you describe- SLS- but with a bit different name-does it suppose to trick us or are these really safe (I am not a chemist to know...)
Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate, Lauryl Glucoside, Lauroyl Sarcosine, Alcohol, Parfume, Limonene, Linalool
and the other shampoo of the same contains another SLS name:
Sodium Coco Sulfate, Coco Glucoside, Sodium PCA, Sodium Chlorid, Sodium Lactate, Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate??????????????????????????Are these ingredients ok or dangerous?
And could anyone tell me, how to make natural shampoo from pharmacy bought GLYCEROLUM 85% (and perhaps H2O2 to make a foam...and Tea tree oil-I do not know the exact mixture I should make...And does anyone knows how to home-make fluorid free toothpaste?)Many thanks
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this sounds great! i remember those old lemon bottles that were yellow and shaped like a lemon. i was wondereing why i rememeber it in the shower when i was a kid!
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