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Your own herbal shampoo

Friday, October 26, 2007

"Your own herbal shampoo"

Manufactures of shampoos & oils are constantly using toxic chemicals in their skin and hair products and disregard their toxic effects on your body.This is easily seen in the list of chemicals that they use.Here are a few of these chemicals found in many product labels.
Propylene glycol or glycol is a petrochemical used because it is cheap.Cetearyl alcohol emulsifier that can be synthetic or natural.Methylparaben or propylparaben is typical synthetic preservatives.polypropylene glycole are petrochemicals.Isopropyl alcohol used as a cheap solvent to carry synthetic oils. Here you can use natural shampoos made by yourself.This formulation is something that we are using for many years.First collect the follwing items. Oz of castile soap with any scent, peppermint, eucalyptus. Oz of rosemary which stimulates the hair follicles and helps to prevent premature baldness. Oz of sage has antioxidants and keeps thinmgs from spoiling and is antibacterial. Oz of nettles acts as a blood purifier, blood stimulator, contains a large source of nutrients for hair growth.Lavender controls the production of sebaceous gland oil and reduces itchy and flaky scalp conditions.2000mg of MSM provides organic sulfur to your scalp, which improves the health and strength of your hair. It also helps to drive herbal nutrient into the skin and follicles where they can do the most good.One empty 8oz plastic bottle or other empty shampoo/soap bottle. Mix the herbs in a mason jar, which has a lid. Boil 2 cups of distilled water.Add 3 heaping tablespoons of mixed herbs into the boiling water.Pull the boiling water and herbs off the stove. Let the herb mixture sit for 30 / 40 minutes. Put the 2000mg of MSM into the herb mixture after 30 minutes of cooling. After 40 minutes the MSM is melted, strain the herbal mixture into a bowl. Pour 2 to 2.5 oz of strained herbal tea into the 8 oz plastic bottle.Now pour the 4 oz castile soap into the 8 oz plastic bottle. Cap the bottle and shake to mix the ingredients. The shampoo is now ready for use.Use this as a base for all of the shampoos you make.You can add different herbs as you learn what these herbs do and how they help your hair. You can vary the ingredients according to your taste. But now you have a shampoo that has no additives that can harm your skin or hair.