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Trash Panda Cleans Up Nice: Make Your Own Dry Shampoo


USMC-08209, taken 08/17/2005, taken by Slick
Trash Panda understands that sometimes you do not have time to wash your hair, but you do not want to look like a dumpster fire. Trash Panda also feeling strongly that charging $30 for a tiny bottle* of what is basically rice or corn starch plus fragrance is a fucking crime.**  Especially since making your own dry shampoo takes all of a minute and a couple of bucks.  Ok, maybe $10 tops if you don't have any spices in your cabinet, and then you’ll get like a half year’s supply.

There are a lot of DIY dry shampoo recipes out there. As long as they've got something in them that will absorb oils (starch or or maybe fancy clay), it'll work. But I like the version below because all the ingredients are powdered and easy to mix, you might already have them in the back of your cabinet, and you can tailor it to your hair color.

Trash Panda's Lazy DIY Dry Shampoo Powder Recipe

Starch base: 

  • Corn, Rice, Arrowroot, Potato or Tapioca Starch are all easy to find     

Colorants:

  • Pale/ White: Just the Starch
  • Blonde: Ginger Powder or Just the Starch
  • Redhead: Cinnamon
  • Brunette:  Baking/ Unsweetened Cocoa Powder and/or Cinnamon
  • Black: A little bit of Activated Charcoal?
  • Fantasy Colors: Ground up Hair Chalk (plz don’t use sidewalk chalk). maybe fancy clays

Other additives:

  • Essential Oils: A few drops if you want, they smell nice!
  • Kaolin or Bentonite Clay: Do kind of the same things the starches do, some will add color. There are pink and green and grey clays out there, so they could be good if that's the color you've dyed your hair. I think they feel oddly coating or cloying, but you might like the feel
  • Baking Soda: I've seen a lot of recipes with this in it, but I find it feels scratchy for no value. A good idea if you want deodorizing power, though.
  • Tumeric: Seems like a good idea for redheads. Will totally dye your scalp orange. Maybe don’t.

Just mix them together 

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Instructions: 

Apply with your fingertips or with a kabuki/round blush brush starting at your roots and working outward. Brush dry shampoo through your hair with bristle brush until it's blended in. You might try applying it the night before to avoid a matte finish, especially if you have darker hair.

Variations: Use whatever combo of ginger, cinnamon, cocoa powder and/or hair chalk that gives you a color that blends well with your hair. Wholefully has a rad chart of different mixes for different hair tones.

Highly recommended: Apply and work in the dry shampoo before you put your nice clothes on - it kind of gets everywhere. And do a patch test on your inner wrist to see how your skin likes the recipe you want to use, especially the ones with ginger or cinnamon.
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Review

Hair feel: Real silky
Blends in? Really well in blonde, red, and dark brown hair
Ease of making: So easy, 1 min. prep time

This worked great on my short, fine hair and my ginger friend's long, fine, dry hair. I tried it out on Blue Jay's long, thick, and somewhat oily hair....and boy did I have to use a lot. Blue Jay has never used dry shampoo before, so this might be the case with whatever dry shampoo I tried to apply. It did blend in just fine and seemed to cut the oil a bit without taking away from shine.

I see a lot of DIY dry shampoo recipes for fun hair dye colors with sidewalk chalk in it. As Trash Panda as that sounds, I don’t recommend it. Use hair chalk instead - it’s still fairly cheap and it’s made for using on your body.

If your hair is real dark, give the starch + activated charcoal a try. I recommend trying the cocoa powder mix first because it's easier to get. To get pre-ground activated charcoal, just pop open a capsule or two of the stuff.  You should be able to buy it at your local health food store/ apothecary/ hippie mart.

Some of the reviews of corn starch based dry shampoo on Makeup Alley mentioned getting breakouts on the scalp or hairline, so rice or arrowroot starch might be a better option if you're worried about that.



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*Srsly fuck you Aveda.
**Both Lush and Aveda's dry shampoo first ingredient is corn starch. With the top Google results for organic dry shampoo, all of them featured a starch of some kind (rice, tapioca, corn or otherwise) as a main ingredient.

Photo credit: USMC-08209 - 08/17/2005 - photo credit by Slick, cropping and text by Trash Panda



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