Are you ready to deeply moisturize and nourish your curls? If yes, then here’s a nice recipe for a DIY aloe vera leave-in hair moisturizer you’ll LOVE!
When you have curly hair, you need to use products to maintain them. If you want to try your hand at making your own products, then you can! It’s all natural, easy, fun and effective too!
Frizzy hair can be tamed using this DIY aloe vera leave-in hair moisturizer. Let’s check out what it contains and benefits of the ingredients below:
Benefits Of Aloe Vera Leave-In Hair Moisturizer
💚 Aloe Vera
Aloe vera is the star ingredient in this hair moisturizer.
It contains necessary ingredients to properly retain moisture in your hair. It also gives this hair moisturizer the ‘hold’ you need to style your curls.
Aloe vera is also great for scalp health. It promotes hair growth, hydrates a dry scalp and controls dandruff.
💚 Coconut Oil
Coconut oil is one of the best oils for hair. It is deeply nourishing because of its fatty acid content. It also prevent protein loss from hair.
Using coconut oil seals the hair cuticles preventing hair damage.
Coconut oil helps bring back the softness to your curls.
It is also nourishing to the scalp with its nutrient content. Don’t forget its natural antifungal, antimicrobial and antibacterial properties that keep scalp issues like dandruff, inflammation, itching and dryness away.
💚 Shea Butter
Shea butter is a creamy plant butter extracted from shea nuts. It helps seal moisture into hair strands by coating each strand in a thin, non-greasy layer of fat. Using shea butter prevents hair from drying out and becoming brittle.
Since shea butter penetrated deeply into the skin and scalp, it reduces inflammation and allows hair to grow strong, long and healthy.
💚 Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Extra virgin olive oil is a great hair moisturizer. It keeps your hair healthy, soft and manageable.
Just like coconut oil, olive oil is also healing and nourishing that helps keep your hair looking and feeling great!
It is also rich in Vitamin E, known as the beauty vitamin, which repairs dry damaged and dull hair.
💚 Sweet Almond Oil
Another great oil for hair, especially dry damaged hair is sweet almond oil. It contains all kinds of healthy hair-loving ingredients such as essential fatty acids, Vitamin E and magnesium.
Using almond oil ensures well-nourished and strong hair. It also repairs damaged strands due to its Vitamin E content.
Almond oil is conditioning and adds a luscious shine to your hair too!
💚 Cetyl Alcohol
This is a fatty alcohol derived from vegetable oils. It is used as a thickener in creams and lotions.
Cetyl alcohol is the best thickening ingredient when formulating hair conditioning products so don’t leave it out!
💚 BTMS-50
BTMS-50 is an emulsifying ingredient whose role is to combine water and oil together.
It is a plant-based emulsifier which is derived from a natural oil called rapeseed oil.
BTMS-50 also conditions hair like no other emulsifier available on the market. It’s the recommended choice for preparing hair care products at home.
💚 Lavender Essential Oil
Last but not least is lavender essential oil. It is the most versatile essential oil on Earth. Lavender is great for conditioning hair!
It is one of the best oils for dry damaged hair because of its moisturizing properties.
Using it helps lock moisture into your hair strands.
It also has a nice calming scent that is relaxing when you’re trying to pamper your curls, which can be quite a time-consuming task.
DIY Aloe Vera Leave-In Hair Moisturizer
What you need
Heated Water Phase
- 100g of aloe vera juice (where to get it)
- 61g of distilled water (where to get it)
Heated Oil Phase
- 10g of sweet almond oil (where to get it)
- 6g of shea butter (where to get it)
- 4g of coconut oil (where to get it)
- 4g of extra virgin olive oil (where to get it)
- 8g of BTMS-50 *emulsifier (where to get it)
- 4g of cetyl alcohol *thickener (where to get it)
Cool Down Phase
- 2g of vitamin E oil (where to get it)
- 1g of liquid Germall plus (where to get it)
- 25 drops of lavender essential oil (where to get it)
Tools & Equipment
- Immersion blender (where to get it)
- 2 heat-resistant glass measuring cups (where to get it)
- Airtight amber glass jar for storage (where to get it)
- Aluminium foil (where to get it)
- Glass rod for stirring (where to get it)
Directions
- Prepare a double-boiler system by adding about 1 inch of water in a wide, flat-bottomed sauce pan. Place the pan on the stove and set the stove on low heat.
- Weigh the water-phase ingredients into a heat-resistant glass measuring cup. Cover the container with aluminum foil to avoid evaporation of water content.
- Weigh the oil-phase ingredients into a second heat-resistant glass measuring cup.
- Place both measuring cups in your prepared double boiler system to melt everything through.
- After about 20–30 minutes, the oil-phase ingredients should be completely melted and the water-phase ingredients should be warm.
- Remove the double boiler pan from the heat, remove the foil and pour the oil-phase ingredients into the water-phase ingredients.
- Mix the water and oil mixture with a glass rod to combine them. Stir for 10-15 seconds.
- Now, immediately grab your immersion blender and begin blending the lotion.
- Blend for about a minute then leave it to cool for ten minutes.
- After 10 minutes, blend for another minute or two, and repeat this blend-cool-blend cycle until the glass measuring cup is barely warm to the touch and the lotion is thick and creamy.
- When the lotion is cool it’s time to incorporate cool-down phase ingredients.
- Weigh down the liquid Germall plus preservative and vitamin e oil and add them into the cream. Finally, carefully add 25 drops of lavender essential oil to the cream. Mix well with a glass rod.
- Store it in an airtight jar in a cool dry and dark place.
- To use, simply scoop a suitable amount of leave-in hair moisturizer with clean fingers and apply on your curls.
Take Care
As usual, do a patch test on your inner elbow/wrist or behind your ears to make sure your skin/scalp doesn’t have any adverse reactions to the ingredients.
Please give this DIY aloe vera leave-in hair moisturizer a go! Come and share your results in the comments below!
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