How To Make Your Own Dry Shampoo
One product that many women can’t live without is dry shampoo. Celebs like Lauren Conrad have talked a lot about how great dry shampoo is, and if you’ve tried it before odds are that you agree. Using dry shampoo is a great way to keep your hair looking fresh in between washes. Dry shampoo is also a great way to add volume to fine or limp locks. I’ve tried several that I’ve loved, but the cost of using a commercial dry shampoo really adds up. I prefer to save them for special events now and have learned how to make my own dry shampoo for daily use. In this post, I’ll show you How To Make Your Own Dry Shampoo. Best of all, you’ll know that it’s animal friendly.
What you will need to make your own dry shampoo :
- 1 cup cornstarch (To be completely animal friendly, please make sure that you are buying a brand that doesn’t test on animals. Clabber Girl and Rapunzel are two great vegan corn starch brands.)
- 1 tablespoon baking cocoa powder. This is optional and best for people with dark hair as it will help the corn starch blend with your hair color. (To be completely animal friendly, please make sure that you are buying a brand that doesn’t test on animals. Navitas Naturals and Equal Exchange are two great vegan cocoa powder brands.)
- A spare jar or old powder container. I like to use old loose powder containers.
How To Make Your Own Dry Shampoo :
- If you wish to add cocoa powder in with your cornstarch, mix the two together in a bowl.
- Add the powder mixture into the container of your choice.
- Apply the cornstarch mixture to your hair, focusing on your roots and around your scalp. Massage it in as if you were actually shampooing your hair.
- Depending on how many days it’s been since your hair had a real shampoo, you may wish to leave the cornstarch in for a few minutes.
- Brush out the cornstarch mixture. A nylon bristle brush works best for this. A nylon bristle brush is the animal friendly version of a natural bristle brush, which uses animal hair. As you brush out the cornstarch, all the dirt and oil in your hair will come out with it.
Do you make your own dry shampoo? What are your tips for making it? If not, what is your favorite store bought dry shampoo?
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This is an amazing recipe! I’m not even sure what cornstarch looks like… but does it leave larger particles in your hair, or is it finely milled? I actually just used dry shampoo today for the first time in a while and am SO happy with the results, especially after using a shine spray on top of it, since the one I use leaves a bit of a chalky residue on my dark brown hair.
I will surely be trying this!!
Cornstarch is a pretty fine powder. It’s not quite as fine as powdered sugar, but it’s not as grainy as salt either. For your hair, I would definitely add the cocoa powder!
Sometimes I can get away with washing my hair every other day, but by the end of day two it’s usually not looking so hot. This would be a great time saver! Thanks for the tip. Approximately how much would you suggest using at a time?
Recipe for dark or black hair:
corn starch
baking soda
drawing charcoal (for turning dry shampoo black, so there will be no white residues on your dark hair!!!)
Grind drawing charcoal (buy at artist shop, perhaps also activated charcoal powder would work) with spoon on the shallow plate.
mix cca 1 part of the grinded charcoal with 2 parts of corn starch (it absorbs grease) and 1 part of baking soda (it absorbs odour). You shoud experiment with the quantity of charcoal, the more you add, darker dry shampoo you wil get.
If you have brown hair (brunette), you can add grinded brown sidewalk chalk, for bluenettes blue sidewalk chalk, for lightbrown hair add yellow or light brown sidewalk chalk etc…
apply the mixture in your hair, wait 5 minutes and rubb it off with a towel. You dont have to rubb off all of the powder, becouse it has the same color as your hair.
Dry shampoo is a great solution for dyed hairs becouse it reduces the need for hair washing and therefore preserve the color and prevent its fading. It works great for my hair dyed with natural indigo (indigofera tinctoria mixed with hot water 65°C and 1/4 tbs of non iodic salt left immediately after mixing for 30 minutes on extra clean hair washed with dishsoap).
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