hi i'm anne-marie from brambleberry.com and soapqueen.com thanks for joining me on soap Queen TV today's episode is all about homemade haircare we're going to be using a premade base from brambleberry.com for the shampoo and then I'm going to be showing you how to make from scratch hair conditioner it couldn't be easier the shampoo portion of this project is so easy you're going to flip no really it's that easy you're going to be using a premade shampoo base from brambleberry.com it's full of good hair loving ingredients like st. John's wort grapefruit seed extract horse-chestnut and vitamin E just to name a few and in fact in department stores you can pay up to $12 just for four to six ounces of shampoo whereas this is a very economical easy way for you to customize and make a great shampoo for yourself first step is to pour 10 ounces of the shampoo into a mixing bowl or a mixing container and if you want to use more you can always double or triple this recipe it's time to add our fragrance oil or essential oil in this case I'm making a delicious personalized essential oil blend using rosemary essential oil peppermint essential oil and Tahitian vanilla just one part of each add 1/4 ounce of this custom essential oil and fragrance oil blend to your soap and stir really well make sure it's all the way stirred in stir gently though because you don't want to stir in too many bubbles if you want to personalize your essential oil or fragrance oil blend you totally can just remember safe usage rates in fact brambleberry.com has an essential oil and a fragrance oil calculator so you can go there just put in the product that you're making put in the essential oil or fragrance oil you're using click calculate and it'll tell you exactly what the safe amounts are for you to use in your product the reason I chose rosemary essential oil for this blend is because it adds to shine and Sheen for your hair and it supposedly cuts down on oiliness who can't get behind that rosemary on its own is a little bit sharp though so that's why out of the de Heaton vanilla it really cuts down on that sharpness and adds to the sweet notes in the blend now that our essential oil and fragrance oil is all stirred in it's time to pour really I told you it couldn't have been easier with a steady hand just pour directly into your bottles that's it you're done with the shampoo now if you're looking for a more advanced do-it-yourself shampoo project brambleberry.com does have an advanced soap Queen TV episode that you can buy that shows you how to make liquid soap from scratch there is also a companion ebook on how to make liquid soap from scratch and now it's time to make our hair conditioner from scratch it's really easy it's similar to making lotions in fact if you want to make lotions from scratch brambleberry.com also has a premium soap Queen TV episode on making lotions from scratch making conditioners is really simple it's actually like lotion just a rinse off lotion for your hair one thing that's really important to do and this is a non-negotiable is that you need to rinse every single piece of equipment you'll be using for this recipe with bleach water a five percent bleach water solution to ensure that everything is fully sterilized before you start the first step is to add distilled water into a pan for this recipe we're using 374 grams of water a lot of times I'll work in ounces but this recipe is so precise that I'm working in grams the reason I'm using distilled water for this project is because tap water can have a lot of microbes in it it's important to be safe and make sure that your conditioner doesn't grow mold or have any bacterial contamination so use distilled water heat it thus water on a stovetop you want to make sure that you're on a stovetop so you can keep the temperature even for a period of at least 10 minutes now that I've got my water heating on medium it's time to measure out the other ingredients into the container goes to grams of liquid silk 22 grams of liquid glycerin 35 grams of beat EMS 50 13 grams of jojoba oil 6 grams of sweet almond oil and 12 grams of DL panthenol take all these ingredients over to your heating water and just pour them in after you've poured them in give them a quick stir they won't melt right away you'll need a way to Lee's three to five minutes for them to start melting while they're melting let's talk about some of the ingredients in this hair conditioning recipe liquid silk is basically silk amino acids dissolved in water adds protein and body to your hair beat EMS 50 or Venice Romanian methyl sulfate is our emulsifier for this conditioning recipe it's a conditioning emulsifier that mixes water and oil together it's especially great in hair conditioners deal panthenol is also known as Pro vitamin b5 it's super moisturizing for your hair shaft it helps improve hair structure and it adds Sheen and shine you can buy all of these ingredients at brambleberry.com now it's time to check and see how our hair conditioner is doing huh you can see it's mid melting point now we've probably got another five to six more minutes to go give it a good stir though make sure everything is well mixed in while this is cooking try to keep it right around 160 degrees this will make it a lot easier when it's time to add our fragrance oils and our preservative okay this is right around 160 degrees it's very important that we never ever add our preservative opt offense above 175 degrees this is because he breaks down the preservative action which means mold bacterial contamination all kinds of icky things can grow in your hair conditioner so keep it below 160 degrees before you add your preservative preservatives are always necessary when making lotions or hair conditioners if you'd like more information about how to use preservatives soapqueen.com has some great articles on the important use of preservatives or you can always get that premium lotion making episode at brambleberry.com you can mix us all with a stick blender or a whisk now if you use a whisk you have to use a lot of elbow grease so I like to use a stick blender but if you don't have one handy just keep whisking until you can't possibly think you can whisk any more or until the conditioner is not separating now it's time to add that all-important preservative for this recipe we're adding four grams of Optifine and we're adding an equal amount of our fragrance oil essential oil blend remember that blend was one part Tahitian vanilla one part rosemary essential oil and 1 part peppermint first distillation essential oil with a steady hand just pour your warm conditioner into your bottle because we love our soap Queen TV fans so much we've created these awesome customizable labels for you download the label template from brambleberry.com buy water proof label stock you can buy this at brambleberry.com and then print this on your printer once they're printed cut these out with a paper trimmer or scissors then customize your labels by hand writing in whatever particular fragrance or essential oil you blended and that's it we're all done for the day thanks so much for joining me today on soap Queen TV until next time happy soaping in fact this base has Saint John's wort in it vitamin E oil horse nut horse chestnut