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Post by Amishcandy on May 15, 2017 17:17:47 GMT
Sweet! Thank you! Let me know how it turns out please
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ash87
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Post by ash87 on May 24, 2017 11:54:22 GMT
A friend of mine gave me a super amazing recipe of a homemade shampoo: Ingredients: /4 cup liquid Castile Soap 1/4 cup Water 1 teaspoon coconut oil 4-5 drops essential oil Combine all ingredients. Shake before each use. I store it in a glass or plastic bottle. It's the best shampoo for dreamy, sweet smelling hair
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Post by Amishcandy on May 24, 2017 13:10:22 GMT
Sweet! Thank you!
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arose
Junior Dreads
Entangled in the mass of maddness manifesting on my head!
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Post by arose on May 24, 2017 20:43:49 GMT
Nice! I've been wanting to try Castile soap but still a little wary bc of how concentrated it is... just have to figure out ratios I guess.
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Post by Amishcandy on May 24, 2017 22:38:05 GMT
I was wondering the same about Castile soap..
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@DreadlocksCo
Dread Newbie
Freedom of your own dreadlocking business
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Post by @DreadlocksCo on May 26, 2017 23:43:12 GMT
That's awesome that you make your own soap, how do you go about it? I sell a natural dreadlock shampoo soap bar in my salon that I love, it's not overly oily, but it'd be great to know how to make my own too. Do you have any tutorials that you'd recommend?
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Post by Amishcandy on May 27, 2017 3:06:58 GMT
I use the "hot process" soap making, you can google it and find recipes and you tube videos. It only takes 1 hour or so to have it done. It does have to sit for 24 hours before you can cut it but it's really simple. I used coconut oil/ almond oil and tea infused water... I like it a lot better, then I know what I'm putting on my dreads. Let me know if make some!
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Post by lipstic on Jun 24, 2017 15:28:35 GMT
Makeup and toothpaste is the easiest thing to make... melt your ingredients together mix and pour. The hard part is figuring out the ingredients.
Soap seems daunting, and I've never worked with lye. However in theory as long as all the oil has saponified it would be great for dreads.
I use castile soap a lot on both me and the dog, I usually dilute it 2-1 or 3-1 soap-water. I'm not sure why people were having problems with hard water, as I have hard water and it washes clean if you rinse within 10 min. Maybe you all have different hard water. I will add essential oils depending on what I need ie calming and bug repellant= lavender, uplifting= lemon, colds mint and eucalyptus etc.
Anyhow, how did your soap turn out?
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