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Natural Hair Spray Recipe

Natural Hair Spray Recipe

Hair spray often contains plastic and other chemical ingredients that are less than ideal to be breathing! Fortunately, there is a homemade alternative that works!

A friend told me about this recipe, and I’ve found it to be very impressive; it really holds hair well.

Light and Lemon Hair Spray

2 to 4 lemons

Water

Slice the lemons and cover with water in a pan. Simmer for 1 hour, adding more water as it evaporates. Let cool, then strain. Pour the lemon liquid into a pump spray bottle.

Makes 2 to 3 cups.

Shelf life: About one week refrigerated.

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By Annie B. Bond

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11:57PM PST on Jan 30, 2013

Thanks.

2:09AM PST on Nov 26, 2012

Nice ! :)

8:21AM PDT on May 26, 2012

thanks

1:11PM PST on Feb 14, 2011

I love Shielo's Volume hair spray. I have never had a nosel break on me and I never had it get clogged. I used their Volume shampoo for years, and finally decided to try the hair spray.

The reason I love Shielo's hair spray is because I have thick but fine hair. Lots of hair that won't do anything. I don't like FLAT hair. I use this hair spray and first of all my hair acturally stays where I spray it - unusual for me (might be because I live in the south). This also gives my hair some lift. When I want to brush my hair I have no problem - the brush goes right thru my hair and then I can restyle. I would recommend this product to my near and dear friends.

8:28AM PDT on Oct 1, 2010

Thanks, Annie.

5:34PM PST on Feb 4, 2010

will the lemon change your hair color?

5:26AM PST on Mar 6, 2009

wow... never heard... thx))

9:46PM PST on Nov 28, 2008

Thanks, i needed this info

11:03PM PDT on Jul 3, 2008

Michelle, you don't have to wait 1 week before using it. All it's saying is you need to use that particular batch before it 'goes bad' and at which point you just have to make more.

I don't use hairspray, but if I did, or if i knew someone who ran out of hair spray and had a few hrs. before they accually needed it, than this might come in handy.

3:34PM PDT on Jun 13, 2008

i'm 19 - just to put that in the open seeing how everyone else did. Anyways this lemon treatment sounds great. Not too happy about the whole wait-for-one-week-part though, but i think i'll make it, till then i'll just check out the sugar treatment - SWEET - lol!

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