Make your own hair soap
With our tips and recipes it works
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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 and well-groomed hair. We’ll show you how it’s done.
Compared to conventional shampoos Hair soap many advantages: It does not contain any synthetic surfactants, but it does contain many nourishing and natural ingredients. This not only protects your hair, but also the environment. In addition, one bar of hair soap will last you about as long as two shampoo bottles, saving you money.
With some few ingredients you can easily make hair soap yourself. This way you know exactly what ingredients are in it and can tailor the recipe to your needs. We will explain to you step by step below how this works.
Make your own hair soap
Basically there is two possibilitiesto make your own hair soap. You can either work with existing curd soap or boil your soap from scratch. Below we will introduce you to both options. We recommend that beginners work with curd soap as this is the easier way.
1. Make hair soap with curd soap
For this you take a melted one Curd soap as a base and enrich them with oils, herbs and flowers according to your own wishes. This is simple and results in a good hair soap.
You need the following ingredients:
- 100 g Curd soap
- 50ml water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil or coconut oil
- 10 drops of essential oil
- Optional: flowers, herbs
This is how you do it:
- First you have to Crush the curd soap. This is easy to do with a kitchen rasp or a knife. Then put the soap bars in a pot with warm water and heat them up. Mix the ingredients until a thick, creamy mixture forms.
- Next you add to the mass nourishing oils of your choice. Olive oil or avocado oil provide the hair with intensive moisture. Coconut oil creates great foam. Castor oil is also a good choice because it ensures easy combing and a beautiful shine. Grape seed or hemp oil are lighter oils and are therefore suitable for thin or oily hair. Try different recipes until you find the perfect mix for your hair.
- Mix too essential oils into your recipe. These give your hair soap a great scent. Lavender oil is said to have a stress-relieving effect. Orange and mandarin oil, on the other hand, are said to have an uplifting effect. Geranium oil has a balancing and calming effect. The same applies here: try out different combinations and find out what you like best. However, you should only add a few drops, as essential oils in high concentrations can irritate the skin. Here you can find out more about essential oils and their effects.
- The last step is to pour the finished mixture into a bowl Silicone mold. Depending on your wishes, you can also decorate the soap with flowers or herbs before letting it cool and harden. After a day or two, your homemade hair soap should be easy to remove from the mold. Complete!
Boil your own hair soap
Boiling your own hair soap is a little more complicated, not entirely safe and therefore more for advanced people when it comes to making your own hair soap. You need Sodium hydroxide and should wear gloves, safety glasses and long clothing, as sodium hydroxide is corrosive in its unsaponified state. Be sure to avoid inhaling the fumes directly. For example, wear a respiratory mask or work at an open window.
You need the following ingredients:
- Coconut oil
- olive oil
- Shea butter
- Sodium hydroxide
- Cold water
- Volatile oil
- Optional: soap dye, herbs
This is how you do it:
- First of all, you should your Weigh out ingredients. To determine the exact amount of sodium hydroxide in relation to the other ingredients, be sure to have one Soap calculator use. Depending on whether you have a high or low one Degree of overfatting If you want to achieve this, the recipe is different. Superfatting indicates how many unsaponified oils are present in the finished soap. Dry hair benefits from a high level of excess fat, thin or greasy hair from a low level.
- Put cold water in a pot and gradually add the measured water, stirring constantly Sodium hydroxide added. When water and sodium hydroxide are mixed together, heat is generated. Danger: Be sure to follow the order and add the sodium hydroxide slowly into the liquid and never add the liquid into the sodium hydroxide.
- Set the lye aside and leave it cool down.
- Bring Coconut oil and shea butter Slowly melt in a saucepan over low heat, stir well and then add the oils.
- When your lye and melted fats have cooled to around 40 degrees, pour them Strain lye through a sieve into the melted fats. The strainer will filter out any undissolved pieces of sodium hydroxide. Mix the soapy water well with a hand blender for about 30 seconds to create a creamy, homogeneous mass.
- Then pour the soap glue into one Silicone mold. When a thin layer has formed, chill the soap. After 24 hours you can take the soap out of the mold. But beware: The soap still needs to mature. To do this, place them covered in a cool place for at least four weeks.
Tip: If you put herbs or flowers into the molds before pouring the soap, they will later appear as a pretty decoration on top of the finished soap. The perfect addition to your personal care routine: this is how you can make your own soap.
Apply hair soap
Using hair soap differs in a few ways from washing your hair with a liquid shampoo. There are a few tips you should keep in mind:
- Either take all the soap with you into the shower or cut yourself first small piece away. This way you can store the remaining soap in a dry place and it won’t soften unnecessarily.
- Lather the soap with water in your hands and distribute it foam on hair and scalp. Then rinse the foam thoroughly.
- After washing, one is recommended acidic rinse made from water and apple cider vinegar, which makes 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 when the hair dries.
- Store the soap in one soap dish or one Soap sachets so that it can dry and last longer.
- When you switch from liquid shampoo to hair soap, your hair may initially feel stringy. 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
Would you rather try out a store-bought hair soap before you get to the stove to boil the soap? No problem, because there are many great quality hair soaps on the market for a wide range of needs. Soaps with high-quality (organic) ingredients such as: B. the following:
The Hair soap with aloe vera In addition to valuable vegetable oils such as coconut oil, olive oil, castor oil and almond oil, Savion also contains 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 taken healing water from a thermal spring and also nourishes the hair with high-quality olive oil, wheat germ oil, castor oil and almond oil. Lavender and rose oil provide a pleasant scent.
The Hair soap with sage and tea tree oil from Meina is particularly suitable for 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 carbon or Ayurvedic herbs.