Does your hair tend to get greasy on the days you don’t wash it? If so, here is a natural solution that you may be able to use to combat this issue.
The ingredients in this dry shampoo are simple: arrowroot powder, cocoa powder (optional), and essential oils. The arrowroot powder absorbs the oil and leaves your hair looking clean. The cocoa powder also helps absorb oil, but it is mainly used to create a darker dry shampoo for those with darker hair. The essential oils are used for scent and to provide extra benefits for your hair.
Modern Essentials suggests the following oils for hair:
Fragile Hair: clary sage, lavender, thyme, sandalwood, wintergreen, and Roman chamomile
Greasy/Oily Hair: basil, cypress, thyme, lemon, and rosemary
Stimulate Hair Growth: thyme, lavender, rosemary, ylang ylang, cedarwood, clary sage, and geranium
When choosing which essential oils to use in your dry shampoo, pick 1–3 of the above oils or other oils that smell good to you, smell good together, and provide the benefits you need.
If you have dark hair and you don’t want to add cocoa powder to your dry shampoo, you can stick with the arrowroot powder and essential oils; but if used in the morning, you may end up with “gray streaks” in your hair from the arrowroot powder. To avoid this, try applying the dry shampoo to your hair the night before to allow sufficient time for the arrowroot powder to completely absorb the oil and disappear before morning.
Time: 2 minutes active | Difficulty: Easy
Note: If you have dark hair but don’t want to use cocoa powder, just make the dry shampoo with arrowroot powder and essential oils. Apply the dry shampoo at night before going to bed to allow sufficient time for the arrowroot powder to completely absorb the oil and disappear before morning.
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Blue Lotus (Nymphaea caerulea) is an essential oil absolute extracted from the flowers. It belongs to the Nymphaea botanical family, commonly known as water lilies. Blue lotus has an exotic fragrance that uplifts and creates simultaneous feelings of euphoria and peace.
As you’ve been inspired by others’ success, you can more accurately see the next step in your upward journey. Confidently take that step! In this blend, fennel inspires courage to move forward. Pink pepper helps increase alertness and focus. Marjoram promotes patience and peace along the way. Sandalwood calms and balances the effects of the other oils.
Spanish sage, also known as sage lavender (Salvia lavandulifolia), is steam distilled from the leaves and stems of the plant. It belongs to the Lamiaceae botanical family. The aroma is herbaceous and camphorous (with camphor as a primary chemical constituent), with a subtle lavender undertone.
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