Beginner Hair Conditioner Recipe
Learn how to make conditioner right at home with just a few ingredients. Includes a step by step tutorial, video and recipe.
Servings: 1 oz
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Spatula
- Double boiler
- Infrared thermometer
- Stick (immersion) blender
- Ph meter or sticks
- Container for mixing
Ingredients
Oil Phase
- 0.40 ounce | 5% BTMS 50
- 0.40 ounce | 5% Cetyl Alcohol
- 0.16 ounce | 2% Coconut Oil
- 0.64 ounce | 8% Olive Oil
Water Phase
- 5.92 ounce | 74% Distilled Water
- 0.24 ounce | 3% Vegetable Glycerin
Cool Down Phase
- 0.16 ounce | 2% Fragrance Oil
- 0.08 ounce | 1% Optiphen Plus
Instructions
- Weight the water phase ingredients into a heat safe container.
- In another heat safe container, weight your oil phase ingredients.
- Heat both in a double boiler until the oil phase ingredients are melted. I will normally heat both the water and the oil phase at the same time, in a pan with a silicone mat on the bottom. This way, the two phases are heated to about the same temperature.
- After the oil phase is melted, pour both the water and the oil phase ingredients into a mixing container.
- Mix well with the stick blender. You will want to keep mixing in bursts, until the temperature drops to 120°F.
- Add your fragrance oil and preservative. Then stick blend to combine.
- Place the conditioner into containers. This can be done by placing the mixture into a plastic baggie and cutting one corner. Then you can easily pipe it into the container.
