How to make your homemade shampoo for oily hair?

How to make your homemade shampoo for oily hair?

Giving up conventional liquid shampoos to create your own homemade shampoo adapted to our needs can seem complicated. Still, it's a lot easier than it sounds. With our easy and comprehensive guide, discover how to make your homemade shampoo for oily hair. First of all, we will see the advantages of making your own shampoo. Then we will see 4 recipes to make your own homemade shampoo for oily hair.

Why make a homemade shampoo for oily hair?

Make homemade shampoo for oily hair

The benefits of making your own homemade shampoo for oily hair

Conventional liquid shampoos found in supermarkets are nowadays full of ingredients often criticized by the scientific community. Indeed, they are harmful for our skin, our hair, our organism but also for the environment. Composed of silicone, sulphate, quats, parabens, preservatives, and even sometimes endocrine disruptors, they promise to maintain and repair our hair, while on the contrary they only damage it.

And all the more liquid shampoos for oily hair! Indeed, manufacturers have created shampoos that strip sebum from the scalp to give the impression of meeting your expectations. However, by being so aggressive, they end up irritating your scalp… As a result, your scalp creates twice as much sebum!

The advantage of a homemade shampoo for oily hair is that it contains natural ingredients. Indeed, nature is well made: everything we need, it provides us. And this is the case to fight against oily hair. Thus, in the recipes that we offer you below, you will find a very large majority natural ingredients who have sanitizing, cleansing, purifying and sebum-regulating properties. Everything you need for a healthy scalp.

What are the ingredients to take care of oily hair?

To make your homemade shampoo for oily hair, it must be formulated according to two main principles:

  • The shampoo should contain active ingredients capable of regulating, sanitizing and purifying scalp.
  • It will be necessary at all costs avoid using drying, stripping and irritant products such as sulfates.
Make homemade oily hair shampoo

The ingredients that you can find in your homemade shampoo for oily hair are :

  • A gentle washing base. For solid shampoos it will be Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate or Sodium Coco Sulfate. For liquid shampoos you can find washing bases made from vegetable oils.
  • Regulating and purifying vegetable oils : Jojoba, Hazelnut, Sweet Almond, Macadamia.
  • Essential oils balancing : Cypress, Lavender, Tea Tree, Clary sage, Rosemary with cineole, Bay Saint Thomas, Lemon, Geranium rose.
  • Hydrosol for oily hair : Lavender, Hamamelis, or Rosemary.
  • Complementary ingredients to coat and hydrate the hair : rice protein, phytokeratin, vegetable glycerin, Aloe Vera, cetiol.
  • Purifying and regulating powders : Stinging Nettle, Neem, White or Green Clay, Rhassoul, Shikakai, and Neutral Henna.

4 homemade shampoo recipes for oily hair

Homemade solid shampoo recipe for oily hair

homemade shampoo for oily hair

Le solid shampoo is the cosmetic revolution of recent years. In the form of a pebble, it is practical, economical and ecological. In addition, it is good for your skin and hair thanks to the healthy and ultra soft ingredients it contains.

We have prepared a homemade shampoo recipe for oily hair that contains one of the mildest surfactants on the market: SCI. Indeed, the latter does not contain sulphate and it is biodegradable. The other ingredients allow regulate sebum, as well ascleanse and purify the scalp.

Storage: Up to 6 months.
Use: Frequent use.

Ingredients and recipe for 100 g of homemade solid shampoo for oily hair:

  • 50 g SCI surfactant 
  • 10 g of Rhassoul powder
  • 5 g of white clay powder 
  • 10 g of hazelnut vegetable oil 
  • 10 g of jojoba vegetable oil
  • 15 g of water
  • 15 drops of essential oil of Rosemary with cineole (optional)

Preparation of homemade solid shampoo for oily hair:

  1. Put the SCI, water, powders, and vegetable oils in a bowl going to the water bath.
  2. Melt everything over low heat and stir throughout the preparation with a wooden spatula until a sticky and homogeneous paste is obtained (about 20 minutes in a double boiler). You can use a pestle to crush ingredients that have trouble melting or dissolving like surfactant for example.
  3. Once the mixture has melted, remove the preparation from the bain-marie, and add the essential oil of Rosemary to cineole if you have decided to add it, mixing with the spatula or pestle. Be careful to always respect the prescribed dosage of essential oils. In addition, the use is strongly discouraged for pregnant women and children under 6 years old.
  4. Once the preparation has cooled slightly, knead your dough to distribute the essential oils well.
  5. Before the dough cools, pour the dough into one or more mold (s) and pack well.
  6. Leave your preparation in the molds for at least 2 hours up to one day at room temperature. We recommend that you do not place them in the refrigerator to prevent them from weakening or crumbling.
  7. Unmould your solid shampoo when it has become very hard and let it air dry (room temperature) for at least 3 days and up to a week to prevent it from melting too quickly.

Homemade liquid shampoo recipe for oily hair

Sometimes it's hard to break away from your conventional liquid shampoo habits. We understand. And for this we have prepared you a homemade liquid shampoo recipe specific to oily hair. The advantage of doing it yourself is that it is made up mostly of natural ingredients and it is much less harmful to the environment and the skin. It is devoid of silicones, aggressive surfactants, parabens, quats, chemical preservatives and endocrine disruptors.

homemade liquid shampoo oily hair

This recipe is taken from the site MyCosmetik. You can find the entire recipe (raw materials, preparation, and production tips) on this page.

Conservation : 3 months maximum.
Use Case : Frequent use.

Recipe and ingredients for 250ml of homemade liquid shampoo:

  • 25ml lavender hydrosol
  • 70ml sterilized water
  • 40 drops of essential oil of rosemary cineol
  • 40 drops of lemon essential oil
  • 45 drops of Isocide
  • 3ml rice protein
  • 5gr of green clay
  • 50ml of vegetable foam base
  • 90ml of consistent washing base
  • 2.5ml of Cetiol
  • 8ml of Phytokeratin

Preparation of homemade liquid shampoo for oily hair:

  1. Put the consistent washing base in a water bath container to melt it, while stirring lightly.
  2. When everything has melted and the preparation is homogeneous and transparent, remove from the water bath. Then add the still lukewarm sterilized water. Gently mix again to homogenize everything.
  3. Pour the green clay and the vegetable foam base into the preparation. Mix again and wait 5-10 minutes for the mixture to cool.
  4. Finally, add lavender hydrosol, cetiol, rice protein, phytokeratin, and isocide. Mix everything so that everything is homogeneous, then add the drops of essential oil last. Mix again so that the preparation is homogeneous.
  5. Finish by transferring the preparation to a 250 ml bottle.

Source: MyCosmetik

Homemade anti greasy hair shampoo recipe with baking soda

homemade baking soda shampoo

Le baking soda is a raw product, which is sufficient on its own to wash your hair, without other chemicals. However, it is not recommended for people with a sensitive or irritated scalp, prone to dandruff. In addition, it is used that occasionally because it can irritate the skull and does not contain any other moisturizing or nutritional ingredients. Therefore it cleanses, sanitizes and regulates excess sebum but has no other properties.

Use Case : Only once a week and occasionally.
Conservation : Several months but without mixing it with water.

Homemade shampoo recipe for oily hair with baking soda

  • 1 to 2 tablespoons of baking soda
  • 1 glass of lukewarm water

Preparation of homemade baking soda shampoo

  1. Dilute the baking soda in the glass of water. Stir until the baking soda is completely dissolved in the water. 
  2. Apply the mixture to the roots of your hair after you wet it. Avoid applying the paste on the lengths.
  3. Rinse thoroughly with water. You can finish with a last spray with vinegar water (apple cider vinegar or apple vinegar).

Homemade shampoo recipe for oily hair with powders

homemade solid shampoo oily hair

Ayurvedic, vegetable or mineral powders have been used since ancient times to wash your hair. If you want a homemade shampoo for oily hair "No poo", that is to say 100% natural, this powder recipe is perfect for you. We offer here a recipe with clay powders. Indeed, the latter are perfect for treating oily hair because they regulate excess sebum thanks to their strong absorbing power. In addition, they purify, cleanse and cleanse the scalp.

Use Case : Occasionally.
Conservation : Single use and 24 hours in the refrigerator.

"No poo" homemade shampoo recipe with powders

  • 4 to 5 spoons ofGreen clay ou Rasul
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons of another plant powder (Marshmallow, Nettle, Curcuma etc) or Ayurvedic (Shikakaï, Reetha, Sidr, Bhringaraj)
  • Lukewarm water (about 1 bowl)

Preparation of homemade shampoo with powders for oily hair

  1. Mix the clay and other powders with lukewarm water until you get a paste.
  2. Apply to your roots by gently massaging your scalp.
  3. Leave the paste on for between 10 and 30 minutes if possible, then rinse the preparation thoroughly.

Note: You can also make a homemade herbal shampoo with only a powder of your choice:

  • shikakai
  • sidr
  • Rasul
  • Neutral henna

You just have to mix one of these washing powders with a little water, to make a paste. Then apply it on your scalp and leave for 30 minutes.

This article has 2 reviews

  1. Loezia

    Very interesting, I might try

    1. Green Lilac

      Hello,
      Were you able to test? If so, I hope you have been satisfied and convinced by the effectiveness of the recipe!
      In the meantime, thank you for your comment 🙂

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