These recipes are organized from the top of the head down, so it is easy to focus on one area or pick and choose recipes for a hair-to-toe experience. Using natural ingredients in skin care fresh is best. These recipes all have a shelf life of around a year.
HAIR
Hair oils increase strength, improve elasticity, and moisturize your hair. And don’t forget about facial hair! An often overlooked area, the beard or mustache should be given as much attention and care as any hair.
Big Hair Ocean Breeze Spritzer
Beard Conditioning Taming Balm
Healthy hair and scalp oil, for shiny strong tresses! The following recipe is a great basic hair health recipe for daily use and frizz control without weighing down hair.
3 ounces alfalfa herbal oil in olive oil
(for instructions to make an herbal oil go to page 22)
½ ounce almond oil
½ ounces sunflower oil
3 drops ylang ylang essential oil
5 drops kapur kachri essential oil
7 drops lemon essential oil
8 drops lavender essential oil
2 drops bergamot essential oil
Makes about 5 ounces.
Add all ingredients into clean mixing container with a pourable spout and stir well with spoon. Pour into jars with a dropper for clean, easy use and then label.
To use, after showering and drying hair with a towel, place about 10 drops of this oil into your hands and rub hands together. Starting at tips of your hair, scrunch into hair, moving hands upwards. Rub into your scalp, increasing cranial circulation, and work your hands back down, mixing oil in thoroughly.
alfalfa, almond oil, sunflower oil, olive oil
HAIR OIL PROMPT
What would your hair benefit from, and why?
Now, reformulate this recipe for you using the same ingredient ratios.
Substitutions for herbal oil could be: almond, sunflower, or an essential oil blend.
Oftentimes, our scalp will get overly oily or incredibly dry and flaky. This blend will take care of both sides of the spectrum, balancing sebaceous glands, taming dander, and soothing itch. Use about once a week at first until your scalp gets balanced.
3 ounces mustard seed herbal oil*
1 ounce jojoba oil
1 ounce hazelnut oil
2 drops thyme essential oil
5 drops turmeric essential oil
5 drops kapur kachri essential oil
3 drops rosemary essential oil
8 drops tea tree essential oil
4 drops myrrh essential oil
* Mustard seed soaked in olive oil. See page 22 for info on herbal oil making.
Makes 5 ounces.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl, blend well, pour into bottle with a pump, and label.
To use, massage up to three pumps into scalp and let sit for half an hour. Rinse or leave until you wash your hair next.
hazelnut, jojoba, sunflower, mustard seeds
This is a weekly treatment and much heavier than a basic oil. It is meant to be applied, allowed to sit, and then washed out.
I suggest using it at least once a week for hair health, especially if you have treated hair, use a blow dryer, or go in chlorinated water often. Plus, a regular serious head massage is wonderful for healthy scalp circulation and imperative in paying attention to your body from head to toe.
3 ounces horsetail herb in olive oil (see page 22)
2 ounces alfalfa herbal oil in olive oil (see page 22)
2 ounces jojoba oil
2 ounces almond oil
3 drops tea tree essential oil
3 drops kapur kachuri essential oil
3 drops lemon essential oil
3 drops lavender
3 drops frankincense
Makes 9 ounces.
Stir all ingredients until well mixed. Pour into containers with pump applicator. Label.
To use on wet or dry hair, massage a pump or two into the scalp and work out to the tips of your hair. If you have a lot of hair, you may end up using an entire bottle. Leave in hair for about half an hour and then wash out.
horsetail, jojoba, almond, olive, alfalfa
Big Hair Ocean Breeze Spritzer
Salt makes hair wild and big. Have you ever been to or even near the ocean, and noticed your hair has amassed awesome body? Well, this is ocean mist in a bottle for using any time you like!
¼ teaspoon sea salt
1 cup distilled water
essential oils of your choice, if desired
Makes 1 cup.
Mix all ingredients in a bottle with spritzer and shake until salt is dissolved. Label. Spritz over dry hair, and fluff hair with hands as it dries. Enjoy your voluptuous mane!
Perfumed Hair Mist
This super simple recipe perfumes the hair while adding the benefits of any essential oil you’d like. It’s really up to you with where you want to go with it. My favorite is using a blend of Jasmine and Sandalwood essential oils. Jasmine is softening for the hair while sandalwood heals broken and damaged hair, plus it smells amazing!
1 ounce distilled water
7 drops essential oil of your choice
Makes 1 ounce.
Blend water and oil in a glass container with spritzer attachment. Shake and label. Spray onto hair as desired.
This solid hair care formulation is excellent for tip damage such as split ends, but also can be used as a hair tamer if you happen to have exceptionally frizzy hair.
72 grams coconut oil
11 grams almond oil
10 grams jojoba oil
32 grams beeswax
6 drops sea buckthorn berry oil
6 drops lavender essential oil
6 drops sandalwood essential oil
Makes about 4½ ounces.
Mix all ingredients together. Set over double boiler until melted and then pour into containers. Allow to harden, cap, and then label.
To use, massage a small amount into your hands and work into tips of hair and up to scalp.
sea buckthorn berry, beeswax pastilles, jojoba, almond, coconut
Just like a facial mask, this goes on wet and sets until dry. Then you wash it off. It serves up a powerful punch of hair vitamins and is full of adaptogenic mushrooms for healthy hair, cocoa butter to moisturize, and guar gum to help soften hair and reduce static.
1 ounce guar gum
6 grams cocoa butter, finely grated
4 grams powdered mushrooms
Makes 1½ ounces.
Mix ingredients together. Place in jars with a lid, label, and that’s it!
To use, take about ½ teaspoon of powdered mix and blend in ½ cup of hot water, whipping quickly to keep guar gum from clumping. Blend well.
Apply goop to hair, massage in, let dry, and wash out. Enjoy your silky locks!
One fun thing about using guar gum in a formulation is that it will activate with any temperature of water—hot, cool, warm—however, because this recipe uses cocoa butter, you will need to mix with hot water to melt the cocoa butter.
The following recipes are created to use together for the best results. Use the hydrating beard mist, follow with beard oil, and hold your beard together with the taming conditioning beard balm.
Nourishing Beard Oil
This beard oil recipe is formulated to enhance hair elasticity and strength, stimulate growth, and soothe dryness and itching while adding serious shine without dampening the beard. This oil is applied daily for all day use, so use just a little at a time.
4 ounces nettle oil in grapeseed oil (see page 22)
1 ounce argan oil
1 ounce hemp oil
2 ounces apricot kernel oil
1 ounce jojoba oil
8 drops Virginia Cedar essential oil
½ drop vetiver essential oil
10 drops bergamot essential oil
3 drops lavender essential oil
Makes about 8 ounces.
Blend all ingredients together in a bowl. Pour into glass bottles with dropper tops for clean and easy application.
To use, place about three drops in your hand and rub hands together. Scrunch into beard. Next, massage beard at follicles and continue to work oil in and around until well incorporated.
hemp, apricot, nettle, jojoba, argan
BEARD OIL PROMPT
What would your specific beard type benefit from, and why?
Now reformulate this recipe for you using the same ingredient ratios.
Substitutions may include herbal oil and other oils, if desired. Try swapping just a gram of carrier oil with one gram of rich oil, or variations on essential oil blends.
Beard Conditioning Taming Balm
This recipe has a variety of super nourishing oils specific for hair taming and health. Maintain your best beard with this conditioning balm.
1 gram pumpkin seed oil
2 grams rosehip oil
1 gram raspberry seed oil
6 drops black cumin oil
30 grams jojoba oil
8 grams beeswax
1 drop lavender essential oil
6 drops sandalwood essential oil
Makes about 1½ ounces.
Mix all ingredients together. Set over double boiler until beeswax is melted. Pour into containers and let harden, cap, and label.
To use, massage a small amount into hands and work into tips of beard and up to face. This is perfect for beard health and taming.
pumpkin seed, raspberry seed, black cumin, rosehip, jojoba, beeswax pastilles
Yes, even beards can benefit from using toning hydration, especially if your beard suffers from dry, itchy patches against the skin area. This is simple yet effective and will help your beard always present attractively!
1 ounce rose hydrosol
⅛ teaspoon honey
Makes 1 ounce.
Combine in a bottle with a spray top, shake, and label. That’s it!
To use, spray as needed into beard and really work it in against the skin.
This will have a short shelf life, so keep refrigerated or add a touch of natural water-based preservative.
honey, rose hydrosol
