Some of us absolutely can not style our hair without some sort of gel. Especially those of us with curly and hard to manage hair. It adds up though, and can get quite expensive buying different hair care products.
The following recipe for homemade hair gel is on our home hair care recipes page at Idea Queen. It’s also found (with many, many others) in the Bath & Body recipes ebook, which has over 250 different recipes you can try out at home.
Homemade Scented Hair Gel
Ingredients:
1 cup water
2 Tablespoons flax seed
2 drops scented oil — your choice of scent
Instructions:
-Combine water and seeds in a small saucepan.
-Bring to a boil then remove from heat.
-Allow to set for a half an hour.
-Strain through fine collander.
-When completely cooled, add scented oil.-Transfer to a wide-mouthed jar with lid.
2 Tablespoons flax seed
2 drops scented oil — your choice of scent
Instructions:
-Combine water and seeds in a small saucepan.
-Bring to a boil then remove from heat.
-Allow to set for a half an hour.
-Strain through fine collander.
-When completely cooled, add scented oil.-Transfer to a wide-mouthed jar with lid.
NOTES : Use as you would any hair gel product.
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4 comments:
Hi. I'd like some help with this one. I found the same recipe on another site and followed the steps. But I found it very difficult to strain the gel away from the seeds. The seeds and gel just sat in the wire stainer and didn't move. Should I have uses a different kind of strainer?
I am thinking that maybe the mixture was too thick before you put in the strainer. Or the holds were either too small.
I just thought that maybe you can use a fine strainer. And strain it before you allow it to sit and cool.
HI Lori. I actually did try that the first time... straining it early and then letting it sit. It came out too watery. I think it really needs to sit with the flax seeds.
But this weekend I tried a different method which worked better. I strained it through an old stocking. That way, I was able to squeeze the gel out. You do have to be careful not to squeeze so hard you make a hole in the stocking. But I couldn't squeeze at all using the wire strainer (pushing with a spoon didn't help.)
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