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Homemade Rosemary Mint Shampoo
July 16, 2023
Conventional shampoo can be expensive and contain harmful chemicals that strip your hair of its natural oils. Instead, try this homemade rosemary mint shampoo recipe!
It’s very easy to make and can help thicken hair and reduce dandruff.
Key Ingredients
You may think making your own shampoo would be time-consuming and involve a laundry list of ingredients. Not so, at least not with this DIY rosemary mint shampoo recipe.
Not only does it involve just five simple ingredients, but it’s ready in just two minutes! You read that correctly: two minutes!
Here are the players in this homemade rosemary mint shampoo:
- Aloe Vera Gel: Aloe vera is a tremendous ingredient for hair care. It helps moisturize the scalp and hair, and research has shown it can help with an itchy scalp and dandruff.
- Olive Oil: Olive oil benefits the aging process, and it has an emollient function that keeps moisture in both the hair and skin.
- Baking Soda: Baking soda is well-known to help cleanse hair, whether in a traditional shampoo or dry shampoo. It makes for a great ingredient in this homemade rosemary mint shampoo.
- Rosemary Oil: Rosemary oil has the ability to help stop hair loss and actually promote hair growth, so naturally it’s a great ingredient to any hair care product.
- Peppermint Oil: Just like rosemary, peppermint essential oil promotes hair growth and also helps combat dandruff.
How to Make Homemade Rosemary Mint Shampoo
Making this homemade shampoo couldn’t be easier. Simply mix the five ingredients together, add them to a BPA-free glass bottle … and voila, you have your homemade shampoo.
That’s it!
You can similar homemade shampoos if you’d like to switch up the scent. Here are some of my favorite DIY shampoo and hair cleanse recipes to try:
- Homemade Coconut Lavender Shampoo
- Homemade Baking Soda Shampoo
- Homemade Anti-Dandruff Shampoo with Coconut Milk
- Homemade Honey Citrus Shampoo
- Tea Tree, Green Tea & Honey Shampoo for Oily Hair
Homemade Rosemary Mint Shampoo
- Total Time: 2 min
- Yield: 15 uses 1x
Description
Shampoo can contain harmful chemicals. Instead, try this homemade rosemary mint shampoo recipe! It’s easy to make and can help thicken hair and reduce dandruff.
Ingredients
- 6 ounces aloe vera gel
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 10 tablespoons baking soda
- 20 drops rosemary oil
- 10 drops peppermint oil
- BPA-free glass dispenser bottles
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together.
- Store in an 8-ounce glass or plastic bottle.
- Category: Hair Care
- Method: Mixing
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I have made rosemary shampoo…must b doing something wrong…didn’t clean my hair…it was like doing nothing.
Help
The recipe isn’t supposed to get “soapy.” Most shampoos contain chemicals that are harsh on your hair and strip the hair of it’s natural oils and these are the things that produce the suds. We commonly associate the suds with soap and cleansing but you can absolutely clean your hair without them. It may take your hair a little bit to get used to the shampoo as well, especially if you have been using normal shampoo for a while.
I’ve made and used this shampoo; however, it makes my hair dry, stringy and unmanageable. Do you have a conditioner that I should be using also our just a vinegar rinse?
As of now we just have the vinegar conditioner posted but you can use this recipe that I’ll be posting on the site soon!
1 cup coconut oil
1 tbsp jojoba oil
1 tsp vitamin E oil
1/2 cup yogurt
Blend all the ingredients until whipped and use after the shampoo. Rinse well!
Hello Dr. Axe! I like and appreciate all informations you are providing for us to improve the quality of our lives! Thank you! I have though a one question that is very important to me and to which I can’t seem to find the answer. I’ve read lots about pH of our bodies, for some reason it is very difficult to rise the pH of my body to the right number which is 7.3 – 7.5. I tried everything including using pH drops and pH stick and nothing seem to help. I’ve been eating very healthy, lots of salads, little dairy, almost no meat and 95% of food I buy is organic. The pH of my urine is usually ok but the pH of my saliva is way to low and sometimes the yellow strip does not change the colour at all! Would you have any suggestions, I often worry that my body is too acidic. Please help!
I would start following my healing diet outlined here: https://draxe.com/nutrition/healing-diet/
Also, here is another article that goes over the specifics of the body’s pH: https://draxe.com/health/ph-balance/
Any thoughts about creating this with fresh rosemary? Just wondering as I have much more than I ever use!
It would be hard to get the essence of rosemary out of the plant and into the shampoo. I believe it would still smell good but you may not get all the health benefits that you would using a highly concentrated essential oil.
Been looking for a good natrual shampoo for a long time, can’t wait to try this thankyou:)