Rosemary Coconut Shampoo Recipe

I worked on this recipe after doing my base Rosemary experiments and then my glycerine experiments. Both of those came out very thin and liquidy. I then ordered coconut oil, which is very thick - like shortening or Crisco. It's a solid. I thought that would help out with the shampoo.

We started with 2 Tablespoons of Rosemary, 1/4c castile soap, 1 Tablespoon aloe vera and 1 tablespoon coconut oil. We microwaved for 20 seconds. It became very liquidy even when cool.

OK we added 2 more tablespoons of coconut oil and microwaved for 9 seconds. This was slightly chunky but thicker and better. So we were onto something.

Try #2.

We used 1 Tablespoon coconut oil, 1 Tablespoon Aloe, nuked for 10 seconds then stirred. Then added in 2 Tablespoons castile soap and 1/2 Tablespoon rosemary. Still watery but better.

It seems about the 9 second mark the coconut oil gets to a good consistency. So we finally made a combination that had some thickness.

Then to use it.

Not too surprisingly, this "shampoo" is VERY greasy. In essence the reason it's thick is that there's a pile of grease in there. So you smear it on your hair and it stays. The resulting rinse does not get it off. You have to in essence shampoo off your shampoo to get your hair clean of the grease. Which isn't very helpful.

So this was fun to experiment, but coconut oil does not seem to be the solution in thickening up a shampoo.

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