DIY Coconut & Shea Hair Butter for Curly Hair
Discover the benefits of using DIY moisturizing coconut and shea hair butter to seal in moisture for curly and coily hair. Prevent water loss, avoid dryness, and promote healthy hair growth with this essential hair product.
For those who are blessed with curly, coily or kinky hair, you'll always find so many hair leave on and hair styling products from mousse, balms, leave-ins, butters, gels, waxes, conditioners, grease and oils can seem like a dream to have many choices in the shopping aisle. Though this can just leave you with choice paradox knowing your hair and your hair needs can make you make a better choice.
What Do Hair Butters Do?
Since this post is about hair butters then let's shine a light into this styling product. Before you make your own hair butter, know what hair butter can do.
Deep moisturization: Other hair products such as curl cream or hair gels can help to style and put hair in its place and improve your curl definition. Hair butters usually are made of natural plant butters like shea butter and murumuru butter that contain essential fatty acids, antioxidants and vitamins that can penetrate your hair stands and boost hair moisture.
Promotes hair growth: Since many hair butters are made from plant butters that contain many antioxidants that can restore and replenish your damaged hair and stimulate hair follicles to support new hair growth.
Protective styling: For better hair care routines during twisting or braiding, using hair butters can ensure sealing in moisture compared to emulsion formulated hair curl creams or worse enough hair gels and waxes that can cause hair dryness and breakage.
DIY Hair Butter
Making your own hair butters can be fun and fulfilling especially if you like crafting your own DIY haircare or skincare and want to schedule this project in your list. Hair butters are really helpful for those with high porosity hair type since hair grease can weigh down your hair and you can't use them as often. Another thing is that hair butters contain lots of goodies for your hair health than other leave on sealing products like hair greases and pomades.
Selecting Ingredients
Coconut oil: One of the best options for carrier oils in hair care is undeniably coconut oil. Coconut oil contains many of the goodies such as essential fatty acids that can nourish, increase shine boost hair growth and moisturize your hair locks. Making it the core part of your hair butter is definitely a best choice available.
To reap more benefits use unrefined organic coconut oil for that coconut aroma, instead you can use fractionated coconut oil to make your essential oils stand out and avoid the coconut oil making your hair butter go rancid too soon.
Shea butter: Another excellent ingredient with no doubt is shea butter. This natural plant butter from African shea tree nut is widely used in skincare and hair care products due to its ability to deeply moisturize hair shafts and seal in moisture thus adding shea butter to your hair butter is a good choice.
BTMS: This is an emulsifying agent that can help to bind well all the oils and butters ingredients used in the making of your DIY hair butter. It can help with the product texture, spreadability and helping the product wholesomely be well formulated.
Vitamin E oil: Also known as tocopherol acetate, vitamin E oil can help to fight free radicals on hair strands from sun exposure or pollution. Vitamin E oil is also an excellent emollient and preservative too. It can promote hair growth so adding it to your DIY hair butter.
Peppermint essential oil: There are many options that can be used instead like rosemary, lavender, ginger and clove essential oil since they're good for hair health overall. Though peppermint has that unique fresh minty scent and cooling effect on your scalp when applied. There are also many studies to support its hair growth promotion claims.
Ingredients
3¼ tablespoons of coconut oil
3 heaping tablespoons of shea butter
½ tablespoon of BTMS
1 teaspoon of Vitamin E oil
25 drops of peppermint essential oil
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You can easily buy all these ingredients at a local store or online at affordable price. After getting all these ingredients, its time to gather tools and utensils. You'll need measuring spoons, double boiler or saucepan, hand-held blender, stove top, measuring cup, mixing bowl, kitchen thermometer and designated clean and well-sanitized Mason jar. You can always double or triple the measurement according to your desires. This is the minimum measurement for creating this recipe.
Instructions
First step is to measure out all your ingredients except for essential oils and set them aside.
Add your BMTS and shea butter in a double boiler. If you don't have one don't worry, you can get a saucepan. Add water in your saucepan just enough to reach a few inches level then immerse your measuring cup and add the butter.
Set on a stove top and make sure the mixture is melted completely. By around temperature 160 to 170 Fahrenheit you'll have the mixture melted just check with the kitchen thermometer.
Remove from heat and turn off the stove top. Add your carrier oil, in this case we prefer to use coconut oil.
Stir till well combined and cover the mixture with lid.
Put it in the refrigerator for few minute to cool down to around 100 Fahrenheit then remove from the refrigerator.
Now transfer the mixture to a clean mixing bowl, make sure to scrape down any remaining butter from the double boiler or measuring cup and put them in the mixing bowl.
Start to whip your mixture at low speed with a hand-held blender for several minutes.
Add drop by drop peppermint essential oil and vitamin E oil. You can always use lavender, rosemary, sweet orange, ginger or lemon essential oil or their essential oil blends.
Continue to whip the buttery mixture till fluffy and velvety.
Transfer your mixture in a clean Mason jar or any other container that you might find good for the job.
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