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Homemade Coconut Lavender Shampoo

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Many store-bought shampoos contain ingredients that are difficult to pronounce and potentially harmful to health. Thankfully, homemade shampoos, like this coconut lavender shampoo, can keep your hair shiny and clean without those unwanted substances.

This easy and fast homemade coconut lavender shampoo recipe cleans hair naturally without stripping natural oils. Try it, and see the benefits for yourself!

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Key Ingredients

The main players in this homemade coconut lavender shampoo are — you guessed it — coconut and lavender. This particular recipe calls for coconut milk, but you can also coconut oil for hair as well.

Coconut benefits hair in several ways, including:

Lavender essential oil, meanwhile, is one of the best essential oils for hair. It may help strengthen hair follicles, soothe the scalp, and treat dry skin and hair.

The final ingredient is Castile soap, which helps cleanse and protect hair as well.

How to Make Homemade Coconut Lavender Shampoo

This homemade shampoo is about as simple as it gets. All you have to do is:

  1. Mix the Castile soap, lavender oil and coconut milk well in a bowl.
  2. Pour the resulting mixture into a BPA-free plastic dispenser bottle.
  3. Shake the bottle well before applying to your hair and scalp, and rinse.

That's it!

If you're looking for more homemade shampoo options, try the following:

Recipe

This easy and fast homemade coconut lavender shampoo recipe cleans hair naturally without stripping natural oils. Try it and see the benefits for yourself!

Total time2 min
Yield30 uses

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cups (1 can) coconut milk
  • 1.5 cups liquid Castile soap
  • 40 drops lavender essential oil
  • BPA-free plastic dispenser bottles

Steps

  1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl well.
  2. Pour mixture into a bottle.
  3. Shake bottle before each use.