About this Scalp oil
This recipe makes 100grams, it is a cold process, takes about 15 minutes and is one of the easiest recipes on my site. However there are quite a few ingredients! Depending where you are in the world and how easy ingredients are to source you can switch out ingredients quite easily. If you have fine hair you can use lighter oils or increase the percentage of the lighter oils.
Ingredients
Phase
|
Ingredients
|
Weight (grams)
|
| Phase A |
Argan oil |
25.00 |
|
Apricot kernel oil |
30.00 |
|
Avocado oil |
10.00 |
|
Jojoba oil |
10.00 |
|
Hempseed oil |
16.50 |
|
Grape seed oil |
5.00 |
|
Vitamin E (Tocopherol) |
2.00 |
|
Rosemary essential oil |
1.00 |
|
Eucalyptus essential oil |
0.5 |
| Total |
|
100 |
Equipment
- 100ml dropper bottle
- Glass beakers
- Glass rods for stirring
- 4 or 5 glass pipettes
- Small funnel
To create grams from percentages, use the following formula: 15/100 x 50 = 7.50 grams
Method
- Sanitise all surfaces and all equiment
- Carefully weigh your botanical oils into a large glass beaker, making sure to tare the scale (resetting it to zero) after adding each ingredient.
- Mix the oils gently with a glass rod.
- Then add vitamin E (antioxidant) and the rosemary and eucalyptus essential oils. Even with this small amount of rosemary oil the rosemary scent will be quite powerful.
- Gently stir the oils together with a glass rod
- Transfer to the dropper bottle
How to use
Before you wash your hair, place one dropper full on your scalp and gently massage in. If you have thick hair use more. This oil will help gently awaken your scalp and help lift the sebum and moisturise the scalp – so if you have a flaky scalp it is perfect. I have very fine hair so I put this on about one hour before I wash, but you could definitely leave on over night or put on 2 to 3 hours before you wash your hair.
What is important is to gently massage you scalp when you are shampooing your hair to clean your scalp and remove all access oil. When I oil my scalp, I always wash my hair twice.
