Homemade Dry Shampoo

posted in Beauty on 7/30/2016

You mayBe surprised by the quality and effectiveness of this fantastic homemade dry shampoo thisDIYdry shampoo recipeIs great for medium and darker hair,but you can easily reduce the amount of cocoa to better suite your hair color.It’s so easy to make that you’ll wonder why you didn’t try it sooner!

Homemade dry shampoo

Ingredients:

Start with the following and adjust from there depending on the color of your hair.

1 tablespoon arrowroot powder
1 teaspoon bentonite clay powder
¼ teaspoon all natural, unsweetened cocoa powder (only ingredient should be natural cocoa powder. Use less for lighter hair)

In the end it was probably about 3 tablespoons worth of cocoa to get to the right coloring for your hair. Clearly started a bit timid, but wanted to be safe and not go overboard from the start.

Directions:

1. Add the arrowroot powder, bentonite clay and first scoop of cooca powder to a medium dish and carefully stir until you have a consistent color. Follow with more cocoa powder as needed.

Do make sure to fully stir in all of the dark powder before adding more so you won’t over darken. If you add a little too much, not to worry, you can simply add in more arrowroot powder and or bentonite clay.

TIPS: This should keep well for a couple of months as these are shelf stable ingredients. Also, washing your application tool or brush with mild soap every now and then will help keep oils off the brush and out of the powdered shampoo, which will help it last longer.