Diy Mixtress into the 2020s

ElevatedEnergy · Aug 14, 2019

DIY Ricewater Cowash.

snoop · Dec 29, 2019

Has anyone tried making a whipped butter with BTMS or cetyl alcohol, but without adding butter?

snoop · Jan 24, 2020

snoop said:
Has anyone tried making a whipped butter with BTMS or cetyl alcohol, but without adding butter?

I ended up making it with both. After it cooled it harded to a consistency of a whipped butter that uses only a little oil. In my hands it melts quite nicely.

BeautifulRoots · Jan 24, 2020

snoop said:
I ended up making it with both. After it cooled it harded to a consistency of a whipped butter that uses only a little oil. In my hands it melts quite nicely.

Hmm, so you just put oil and btms or cetyl alcohol?

snoop · Jan 24, 2020

BeautifulRoots said:
Hmm, so you just put oil and btms or cetyl alcohol?

All three using the double boiler method. Then I used some lemongrass fragrance oil. I got the idea for the scent from @Chicoro (in the shea butter thread?)

BeautifulRoots · Jan 24, 2020

snoop said:
All three using the double boiler method. Then I used some lemongrass fragrance oil. I got the idea for the scent from @Chicoro (in the shea butter thread?)

Wow, very cool!

NCHairDiva · Feb 6, 2020

Loving AYURVEDIC deep conditioner.... The results are amazing.... Great ingredients too.

Mapleoats · Feb 6, 2020

Hey @snoop where are you ordering your btms etc from?

snoop · Feb 7, 2020

Mapleoats said:
Hey @snoop where are you ordering your btms etc from?

I order my BTMS from Saffire Blue (near Brantford?). They also have some harder to get items that New Directions doesn't carry.

I place orders for dried flowers from Candora Soap (London). Candora also sells healing clays and some other items for a much better price than NDA, as well.

I usually compare the price of all three places then divvy up the orders accordingly.

Garner · Mar 13, 2020

Question for my DIY experts. I make a deep conditioner mix using an avocado, banana, honey, yogurt or coconut milk, and fenugreek powder. Should this be applied prior to washing on dirty hair or after washing w/ heat? Thank you

snoop · Mar 13, 2020

Garner said:
Question for my DIY experts. I make a deep conditioner mix using an avocado, banana, honey, yogurt or coconut milk, and fenugreek powder. Should this be applied prior to washing on dirty hair or after washing w/ heat? Thank you

I would do use it after.

Garner · Mar 13, 2020

Thank you @snoop !!! I was not sure.

NCHairDiva · Mar 21, 2020

My favorite Ayurvedic and Chebe Whipped Shea Butter Mix.... so AMAZING!

NowIAmNappy · Apr 15, 2020

Here’s some of my latest hair gel mixtures

mzteaze · Nov 6, 2020

Wow some great recipes in here!!

Here are a few more:

Chebe

Chebe Butter

Chebe Creme

water_n_oil · Nov 6, 2020

mzteaze said:
Wow some great recipes in here!!

Here are a few more:

Chebe

Chebe Butter

Chebe Creme

Her channel is everything! I'm far too cheap and lazy to go full on chemist though lol.

mzteaze · Nov 6, 2020

Does anyone have a recipe to make a preserved rice water spritz?

mzteaze · Nov 6, 2020

water_n_oil said:
Her channel is everything! I'm far too cheap and lazy to go full on chemist though lol.

Me either. I bought her pre-made Chebe creme though. That stuff is really really nice.

snoop · Nov 7, 2020

I want to try making a leave-in tea spray for my scalp and hair. How strong are you ladies making your sprays/spritzes?

When, I make my rinses I dilute them, but I just wanted to check around and see what other are doing.

mzteaze · Nov 7, 2020

snoop said:
I want to try making a leave-in tea spray for my scalp and hair. How strong are you ladies making your sprays/spritzes?

When, I make my rinses I dilute them, but I just wanted to check around and see what other are doing.

I STILL have my dried mix of DIY CP tea. I didn't really dilute it initially. The version I liked the best was when I mixed it with rice water, hydrated fenugreek and aloe vera gel.

mzteaze · Dec 13, 2020

@snoop
@NowIAmNappy
@water_n_oil
@ElevatedEnergy

This question is all of the recipe developers. I started making rice water and the thought struck me, how it could be made into a conditioner. My question is since it's a water based product, do I add the preservative to the water step?

Also how do I scale the oil phase products?

snoop · Dec 13, 2020

mzteaze said:
@snoop
@NowIAmNappy
@water_n_oil
@ElevatedEnergy

This question is all of the recipe developers. I started making rice water and the thought struck me, how it could be made into a conditioner. My question is since it's a water based product, do I add the preservative to the water step?

Also how do I scale the oil phase products?

Lotions/creams are made up of three parts: water phase (water and water soluble goodies) + oil phase (oils, butters, and oil soluble goodies, like conditioning ingredients and emulsifiers) + cool down phase (which is where you would include things like preservatives and fragrance).

Basically, your ingredients supplier should have specs in terms of how much of certain ingredients that you need to use. I use roughly 20% oils in my lotions...approx 28% is what my oil phase amounts to.

mzteaze · Dec 14, 2020

snoop said:
Lotions/creams are made up of three parts: water phase (water and water soluble goodies) + oil phase (oils, butters, and oil soluble goodies, like conditioning ingredients and emulsifiers) + cool down phase (which is where you would include things like preservatives and fragrance).

Basically, your ingredients supplier should have specs in terms of how much of certain ingredients that you need to use. I use roughly 20% oils in my lotions...approx 28% is what my oil phase amounts to.

Thanks!

I froze it for now but plan to experiment more soon. I really think I can "hack" the conditioner I bought that uses Purple Rice.

mzteaze · Dec 14, 2020

There is always a video for it....

bzb1990 · Dec 16, 2020

Make your own super nourishing hair balm - Humblebee & Me (humblebeeandme.com)
I've been following this blogger since she started out, I adore her brain - the website is a treasure trove.

Her summary:

As always, be aware that making substitutions will change the final product. While these swaps won’t break the recipe, you will get a different final product than I did.

Fundamentally, this recipe is 45g soft oils/butters, 15g brittle butters, 28g liquid oils, and 11g beeswax. You can play around with different oils within those categories to maintain a similar consistency—read this to learn more.

The easiest oils to swap would be the camellia seed oil and walnut oil; choose other lightweight, fast-absorbing oils in their place. I would leave the castor and jojoba oils as they are extra lovely for hair.

You can use a different essential oil blend if you like

snoop · Dec 16, 2020

bzb1990 said:
Make your own super nourishing hair balm - Humblebee & Me (humblebeeandme.com)
I've been following this blogger since she started out, I adore her brain - the website is a treasure trove.

Her summary:

I only recently discovered Humblebee and I like her site, too.

(Have you checked out swiftycraftymonkey? I like her's better, but maybe because she has more information to draw from when I'm in a pinch.)

bzb1990 · Dec 16, 2020

snoop said:
I only recently discovered Humblebee and I like her site, too.

(Have you checked out swiftycraftymonkey? I like her's better, but maybe because she has more information to draw from when I'm in a pinch.)

No I hadn't , thank you! (OMG she sells courses at a reasonable price too!)

snoop · Dec 16, 2020

bzb1990 said:
No I hadn't , thank you! (OMG she sells courses at a reasonable price too!)

And she uses all of the money to fund youth programs in her area. It's great!

NowIAmNappy · Dec 17, 2020

mzteaze said:
@snoop
@NowIAmNappy
@water_n_oil
@ElevatedEnergy

This question is all of the recipe developers. I started making rice water and the thought struck me, how it could be made into a conditioner. My question is since it's a water based product, do I add the preservative to the water step?

Also how do I scale the oil phase products?

Yes, I add a preservative to your water phase, weight it out and add the percentage, if you’re using Geogard Ultra ( that’s what I use) you can use it at 1%

NowIAmNappy · Dec 17, 2020

Just made a DIY protein treatment with bomb results

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