Homemade Clarifying Shampoo helps remove build up from water, styling product residue and chlorine. Learn how to make Clarifying Shampoo that is all natural and very simple!
Is your hair looking dull and lifeless? You may need to try a hair clarifying shampoo.
Repeated use of hair products such as hair gel, conditioners, hairspray, DIY Hair Pomade and more can weigh hair down over time. Try using a clarifying shampoo to remove all this build up from hair care products.
Learn How often should you wash your hair in a normal hair care routine.
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Why We Love This
This no fuss homemade clarifying shampoo takes only minutes to make for healthy hair. The results are incredible with natural ingredients, and your hair will look amazing!
It’s also great if you have been in the pool and need to remove chlorine build up and grime from hair strands and scalp. We love the water, so this is much needed during the summer months especially!
You will be amazed at the difference in your hair after weeks of swimming when you use this shampoo!
Ingredients
- ½ cup unscented liquid castile soap
- ½ cup purified water
- 1 tablespoon glycerin
- juice of 1 lemon (about 2 tablespoons)
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 10 drops lemon essential oil. You can also add rosemary and tea tree oil.
Step By Step Instructions
Step 1. Pour the water into the measuring cup or small bowl.
Step 2. Next, add the castile soap to the water.
Step 3. Add the glycerin to the mixture.
Step 4. Then add the drops of essential oil.
Step 5. Squeeze the fresh lemon juice into the bowl.
Step 6. Combine and pour the clarifying treatment into the bottle.
Frequently Asked Questions
Shake well and shampoo into as usual. I like to massage into scalp. It helps remove product buildup from water, dirt, styling product residue, chlorine and more.
Wet hair with warm water and use this all natural shampoo. Any product you use and the buildup it leaves behind will be gone with this shampoo!
Natural oils and daily build up can dull hair. You will love how this makes your hair shine! It really brings back the life to your hair while removing excess oil and impurities.
Clarifying shampoo helps to remove residue from hair. However, it can be pricey if you buy from the store.
Plus, you don’t know what all you are really putting on your hair. I love making my own clarifying shampoo.
Use this all-natural shampoo where you know all of the ingredients that are going into it. I feel really good about using this on my kid’s hair.
You won’t find any harsh chemicals in this all-natural shampoo!
We love using essential oils. The lemon essential oil in this not only works great but smells amazing!
The shampoo has a wonderful citrus scent that you will love. Essential oils are great for numerous uses.
I keep this in squeeze bottles. You can pick up these up on Amazon very inexpensively.
Whether you are looking for diy clarifying shampoo curly girl or clarifying shampoo for color treated hair, this non baking soda shampoo works amazing.
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Go ahead and make homemade clarifying shampoo recipe for a wonderful natural product. Please leave a comment once you try it.
This made my day! I came across this recipe for clarifying shampoo at 6am this morning as I was desperately searching for anything to help revitalize my limp, dull, dry hair. I have curly hair & lately it have been giving my grief . This clarifying shampoo was a game changer for me. My curls sprung to life! No frizz! Best of all I didn’t have to use any additional product afterwards. My hair is so soft & shiny again. As a newbie to DIY stuff I was so tickled with myself afterwards that I’m now ready to take on lots of new projects. Thank you!
Awesome – Thanks for sharing!
This made my hair super gummy and sticky 😕 My scalp is fine, but about an inch or so down, it’s gross feeling. Maybe it’s just for super dry hair? Thoughts?
The clarifying shampoo will strip everything off your hair which can give it a strange texture. Make sure that you use a small amount and then follow it with a good conditioner and allow the conditioner to set on the hair for awhile before rinsing which will help the texture issues. Also, I only use the clarifying shampoo 1 a month max. Thank you.
I want to try this on my son’s hair. he has long hair, and when he realized he was having a hard time coming through it, I took a look, and it was matted and oily and built up from product. I had him wash it, and gave him my clarifying shampoo (store bought) but it didn’t seem to help. I made him a homemade scalp detox, and it got a little better, but I can still feel the build up in his hair. I would love to give this a shot. Does it store well, or do you have to use it all in one use? If you store it, where do you store it, and how long will it stay good for? Thanks in advance.
It does store well. Make sure that you shake it before you to recombine all the ingredients as they will separate as it sits. You do not have to use it all at once. I store mine in the shower but in a cabinet would be fine too. It will last to the shortest expiration date of the products that you use to create it. I hope it works! Thank you!
Soap is a base. Lemon juice is an acid. Therefore you should not mix the two. This will cause a weird film to be left behind on any surface you attempt to clean with it.
I made this shampoo I used 1 cup of rosemary infused water and 1/2 cup of Castile soap plus the lemon juice and oil didn’t have glycerine, So I used fractionated coconut oil. Hair looks good. How often can I use this shampoo? And also :will the lemon oil and juice dry up the scalp and hair? I know lemon oil is photo toxic so I would like to know if I am out in the sun, will the hair get dry? Thank you for this recipe!
Clarifying Shampoo is recommended for use 1-2 times a month. Using it more can lead to stripping natural oils in your hair and dryness.