DIY Dry shampoo ingredients |
I tried out a few versions found around the web, and while I have found store bought dry shampoos to be most cost effective in powder form, I found that I prefer the wet version of the homemade dry shampoo. (I'm not sure just how "dry" one can call it, though!)
Here are the pros and cons I experienced while trying out my dry shampoo at home, along with the recipe I ended up using, which is sort of a mash-up of several versions I tried, and a couple tips I learned along the way...
Recipe
-Cornstarch
-Water
-Witch hazel, or rubbing alcohol, or isopropyl alcohol.
-Spray bottle
-Perfume or essential oil (optional)
Add the first three ingredients in equal parts into a spray bottle. Add a spritz of the perfume or drop of the essential oil, if desired. (Only a tiny bit is necessary to smell it later.) Spray into hair at roots, and blow-dry.
Pros:
-Well, obviously, it's free. Or close to free.
-It smells really good, because one can add any scent she likes.
-Added volume. I have fine, straight, can-be-limp hair, and cornstarch is a thickener in food, so I should not have been so surprised to see that it also added a little fullness to my hair.
-Quick to make. It takes no time at all to combine the ingredients.
-Quick to use. Shaking the bottle and spraying it in takes as little time as a spray version of dry shampoo.
-Fixing bad hair. If I woke up with a section of hair sticking out, the spray fixed it easily.
Cons:
-Until I got the hang of it, it was a little messy, leaving a residue of cornstarch on my bathroom tiles.
-It does not work as well if allowed to air-dry as it does when it is blow-dried.
-Being a liquid, it won't travel as well as my powder dry shampoo.
-It works well for hours, but not as many hours as store-bought dry shampoos. With a blow-dryer, it sets well enough to last about 9 hours, and when air dried, it lasts about 6 hours for me. Store-bought ones usually last over 18 hours for me.
Conclusion:
All in all, I'm going to keep using it because the cost is so much less than a bottle of store-bought dry shampoo, but I will still keep a bottle of Oscar Blandi Pronto Dry Shampoo in my bathroom for days when I want to have that option.
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