Make hair soap yourself
It works with our tips and recipes
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Making hair soap yourself is not difficult at all. The decorative soaps are a cheap and environmentally friendly alternative to liquid shampoo and also ensure beautiful, well-groomed hair. We'll show you how to do it.
Compared to traditional shampoos it offers Hair soap many advantages: It does not contain any synthetic surfactants, but many nourishing and natural ingredients. This not only protects your hair, but also the environment. In addition, you can get by with a bar of hair soap for about as long as with two shampoo bottles and thus save money.
With some few ingredients you can easily make your own hair soap. So you know exactly which ingredients are in it and can tailor the recipe to your needs. We will explain how this works step by step below.
Make hair soap yourself
Basically there is two possibilitiesTo make hair soap yourself. You can either work with existing curd soap or boil your soap from scratch. In the following we will introduce you to both options. For beginners, we recommend using curd soap as this is the easier way.
1. Make hair soap with curd soap
For this you use a melted one Curd soap as a base and enrich these with oils, herbs and flowers according to your own wishes. It's simple and the result is a good hair soap.
You need the following ingredients:
- 100 g Curd soap
- 50 ml of water
- 2 tbsp olive oil or coconut oil
- 10 drops of essential oil
- Optional: flowers, herbs
This is how you do it:
- First you have to Crush curd soap. This works very easily with a kitchen rasp or a knife. You then put the bars of soap in a saucepan with warm water and heat them up. Keep stirring the ingredients until you get a thick, creamy mass.
- Next you add to the crowd nourishing oils of your choice. Olive oil or avocado oil give the hair intensive moisture. Coconut oil makes for great foam. Castor oil is also a good choice because it is easy to comb and has a nice shine. Grape seed or hemp oil are lighter oils and are therefore well suited for thin or oily hair. Try different recipes until you find the perfect mix for your hair.
- Mix too essential oils in your recipe. These give your hair soap a great scent. Lavender oil is believed to have a stress relieving effect. Orange and mandaria oil, on the other hand, should have a cheering effect. Geranium oil has a balancing and calming effect. The same applies here: Try different combinations and find out what you like best. You should only add a few drops, however, as essential oils can irritate the skin in high concentrations.
- As the last step, you fill the finished mass into a Silicone mold. If you wish, you can also decorate the soap with flowers or herbs before you let it cool and harden. After a day or two, your homemade hair soap should be easy to remove from the mold. Finished!
Boil hair soap yourself
Boiling hair soap yourself is a little more complicated, not entirely harmless and therefore more for advanced users when it comes to making your own hair soap. You need Sodium hydroxide and should wear gloves, protective goggles and long clothing, as sodium hydroxide is corrosive in its unsaponified state. Make sure you avoid inhaling the fumes directly. For example, wear a respirator or work by the open window.
You need the following ingredients:
- Coconut oil
- olive oil
- Shea butter
- Sodium hydroxide
- Cold water
- Volatile oil
- Optional: soap color, herbs
This is how you do it:
- First of all, you should get yours Weigh the ingredients. To determine the exact amount of sodium hydroxide in relation to the other ingredients, be sure to get one Soap calculator use. Depending on whether you have a high or a low Degree of excess fat want to achieve, the recipe is different. Overfatting indicates how many unsaponified oils are in the finished soap. Dry hair benefits from a high level of excess oil, thin or oily hair from a low one.
- Put cold water in a saucepan and gradually add what you have weighed, stirring constantly Sodium hydroxide added. Mixing water and sodium hydroxide creates heat. Danger: Be sure to follow the order and only slowly add the sodium hydroxide into the liquid and never add the liquid into the sodium hydroxide.
- Set the lye aside and leave it on cool down.
- Bring Coconut oil and shea butter Slowly melt in a saucepan over low temperature, stir well, then add the oils.
- When your lye and melted fats have cooled to around 40 degrees, you pour them Lye through a sieve into the melted fats. The sieve filters out any undissolved pieces of sodium hydroxide. Mix the soapy water well with a hand blender for about 30 seconds so that a creamy, homogeneous mass is created.
- Then pour the soap glue into one Silicone mold. When a thin layer has formed, refrigerate the soap. After 24 hours you can take the soap out of the mold. But beware: The soap still has to ripen. To do this, put them covered in a cool place for at least four weeks.
Tip: If you put herbs or flowers in the molds before filling the soap, they will later be found as a pretty decoration on top of the finished soap.
Apply hair soap
Using hair soap differs in several ways from washing your hair with a liquid shampoo. You should therefore keep a few tips in mind:
- Either take all of the soap with you in the shower or cut yourself first small piece from. This way you can keep the rest of the soap in a dry place and it doesn't soften unnecessarily.
- Lather the soap with water in your hands and distribute it foam on hair and scalp. Then rinse out the foam thoroughly.
- After washing, we recommend one sour rinse from water and apple cider vinegar, which makes the hair shinier and easier to comb. Especially with hard water, an acidic rinse prevents lime soap from depositing in the hair. The rinse is not rinsed out. The smell goes away by itself when the hair dries.
- Keep the soap in one Soap dish or one Soap sachets so it can dry and last longer.
- When you switch from liquid shampoo to hair soap, your hair can feel lank at first. Be patient: Over time, the hair will get used to the formula without artificial additives and will then look healthier and shinier.
Buy hair soap
Wouldn't you like to try a purchased hair soap first, before you stand at the stove to make the soap? No problem, because there are many hair soaps in great quality for a wide variety of needs on the market. Soaps with high-quality (organic) ingredients such as B. the following:
The Hair soap with aloe vera from Savion contains valuable vegetable oils such as coconut oil, olive oil, castor oil and almond oil as well as organic shea butter and aloe vera gel. This is only gently incorporated into the product after the saponification process, so that the moisturizing and strengthening active ingredients are retained.
There is also one from Savion Hair soap with thermal water. This contains many important minerals thanks to the freshly drawn medicinal water from a thermal spring and also cares for the hair with high-quality olive oil, wheat germ oil, castor oil and almond oil. Lavender and rose oil provide the pleasant scent.
The Hair soap with sage and tea tree oil from Meina is particularly good against dandruff and greasy hair. The power duo regulates sebum production and strengthens the hair roots. Lavender is responsible for the fragrant scent and soothes the scalp. Calendula, olive oil, coconut oil and shea butter provide care and moisture. The manufacturer has many other exciting varieties in the range, for example with activated charcoal or Ayurvedic herbs.