Hair Conditioner Recipes

Want to make your own hair conditioner? You've come to the right place! Whether you prefer bar or cream, I've go you covered.
Green Tea Conditioning Hair & Body Butter

Green Tea Conditioning Hair & Body Butter

Today's formulation is a soft, creamy butter that works beautifully for haircare and skincare. Depending on how you use it, it can be a super-concentrated leave-in hair conditioner, a hair serum, a regular-strength leave-in hair conditioner, or a body butter. It's...

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How to Make Your Own Co-Wash: 3 Ways

How to Make Your Own Co-Wash: 3 Ways

Today we're going to make three different easy co-washes (or cleansing conditioners), and I'll also be sharing some ideas and pointers to help you customize these formulations to create something that's perfect for your hair. Let's dive in! Want to watch this project...

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2 Creamy Conditioners with BTMS-25: Light & Rich

2 Creamy Conditioners with BTMS-25: Light & Rich

This post (and pair of formulations) is a continuation of last month's Super Simple Creamy Hair Conditioner with BTMS-25: 3 Ways. Today we are making two more creamy hair conditioners with BTMS-25; one is a lightweight conditioner that makes a good leave-in...

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Super Simple Creamy Hair Conditioner: 3 Ways

Super Simple Creamy Hair Conditioner: 3 Ways

In this post I'll be teaching you how to make three different emulsified, rinse-out Super Simple Creamy Hair Conditioner formulations using BTMS-25. All three formulations are really easy to make, and they build on one another. The first one is the simplest with just...

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Strawberry Kiwi Cleansing Conditioner

Strawberry Kiwi Cleansing Conditioner

I'm continuing our Strawberry Kiwi theme today with a formulation for a creamy and gentle Strawberry Kiwi Cleansing Conditioner. A cleansing conditioner is a lovely, indulgent way to gently cleanse and condition your hair with just one product. This one is creamy and...

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Strawberry Kiwi Conditioning Hair Treatment

Strawberry Kiwi Conditioning Hair Treatment

Today's formulation is designed to pamper your hair and your nose! It's a decadently thick and silky Strawberry Kiwi Conditioning Hair Treatment, made with satiny kiwi seed oil and deliciously fragrant strawberry hydrosol. I've been enjoying applying this Strawberry...

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Cocoa Coconut Simple Conditioner Bars

Cocoa Coconut Simple Conditioner Bars

If you've been interested in making a solid conditioner bar, but have been intimidated by the long ingredient lists on the formulations I've shared in the past, this post is for you! These beautiful Cocoa Coconut Simple Conditioner Bars are made from just six...

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Silk & Camellia Seed Leave-In Hair Conditioner

Silk & Camellia Seed Leave-In Hair Conditioner

Today's Silk & Camellia Seed Leave-In Hair Conditioner stars lightweight camellia seed oil and luxurious hydrolyzed silk peptides. They work together to moisturize and smooth the hair, while a trio of conditioning ingredients smooth the hair cuticle, leaving hair...

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Passionfruit Coconut Conditioner Bar

Passionfruit Coconut Conditioner Bar

Today we're making a lovely solid conditioner bar starring exotic passionfruit oil and richly conditioning BTMS-25! When you run this solid bar over wet hair, it transforms into creamy, slippy hair conditioner—leaving your hair soft and silky, taming flyaways and...

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Argan Rose Cleansing Conditioner

Argan Rose Cleansing Conditioner

If you're a fan of cleansing conditioners, I think you're going to like this Argan Rose Cleansing Conditioner. It gently cleanses your hair, leaving it all kinds of soft and shiny with a lingering rosy, lemony scent. Luxurious argan oil and fragrant rose hydrosol star...

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Featherweight Leave-In Hair Conditioner

Featherweight Leave-In Hair Conditioner

Today we're whipping up a simple, seven-ingredient Featherweight Leave-In Hair Conditioner that is brilliant for adding moisture and shine to hair that's not very tolerant of oils. I've been using variations on this conditioner for over a year now, and I love how it...

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Cranberry Orange Conditioner Bar

Cranberry Orange Conditioner Bar

I'm pretty stoked to share today's project with you—it's a Cranberry Orange Conditioner Bar that I've been working on for months. Satiny cranberry seed oil, ultra-conditioning BTMS-50, shine-ifying hydrolyzed silk, and beautiful sweet orange essential oil come...

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Shine & Detangle Conditioning Hair Rinse

Shine & Detangle Conditioning Hair Rinse

Today's project is a Bee Better for the Shine & Detangle ACV Hair Rinse I shared back in 2013. I had a lot of fun revisiting this one, taking lots of inspiration from the name rather than the original ingredients, and working in lots of what I've learned about...

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Rosé Conditioning Hair Foam

Rosé Conditioning Hair Foam

Today we're creating a fun new hair product—a lightweight Rosé Conditioning Hair Foam! This delicate foam contains some fabulous-for-hair goodies for smoothing and volumizing. It also smells fabulous and comes together in a flash. And did I mention that it's a hair...

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Rich Strawberry Rose Hair Conditioner

Rich Strawberry Rose Hair Conditioner

If you're looking for a richer hair conditioner to pamper your lovely locks with, I think you're going to like this Rich Strawberry Rose Hair Conditioner. A fragrant blend of summery hydrosols blends with some rich conditioners and moisturizers to create an indulgent...

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Rosé Leave-In Hair Conditioner

Rosé Leave-In Hair Conditioner

I can hardly believe it, but I don’t think I’ve ever shared a formula for a leave-in hair conditioner before. I’ve had plenty of requests, but somehow such a thing has slipped through the cracks—until now! This lightweight Rosé Leave In Hair Conditioner helps hydrate,...

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Mango Mango Cleansing Conditioner

Mango Mango Cleansing Conditioner

After sharing my Mango Mango Shampoo Bar formula there were questions about a Mango Mango Conditioner, and I'm excited to share this cheery orange and oh-so-fragrance Mango Mango Cleansing Conditioner formula with you today! You can use this as both a cleansing...

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Sugar Plum Cleansing Conditioner

Sugar Plum Cleansing Conditioner

This Sugar Plum Cleansing Conditioner is a wonderful continuation to the fun I've been having making cleansing conditioners over the last few months. My aim with this one was to create something lighter that could work better for anyone with hair that can be easily...

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Rose Cardamom Cleansing Conditioner

Rose Cardamom Cleansing Conditioner

After making and testing my Cream of Earl Grey Cleansing Conditioner I fell in love with the concept and the product. I found it left my hair incredibly soft and manageable, and I loved the single step in the shower. Working palmfuls of creamy conditioner through my...

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Cream of Earl Grey Cleansing Conditioner

Cream of Earl Grey Cleansing Conditioner

I've had loads of requests for a cleansing conditioner, and I'm really excited to finally have one to share! This one is decadently creamy and works through the hair with no lather. It rinses out beautifully, leaving the hair clean and wonderfully manageable (I...

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Vanilla Spice Conditioner Bar

Vanilla Spice Conditioner Bar

When I was in university I had the most wonderful roommate in second year. Harriet and I started as roomies and are still fast friends to this day. There were many things that made us fantastic roommates, including our shared appreciation of pizza nights, clean door...

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Monoi de Tahiti Hair Conditioner

Monoi de Tahiti Hair Conditioner

You don't have to read much about Monoi de Tahiti to decide that you must have a bottle—stat—as it is clearly going to transform you into a tropical goddess with the waist-long luscious hair of Disney princesses and the skin of a sun-kissed Victoria's Secret model. It...

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Orange Blast Solid Conditioner Bar

Orange Blast Solid Conditioner Bar

This sunny Orange Blast Solid Conditioner Bar has a new position of prominence and glory in my shower. It smells like the juiciest of oranges, leaves my hair feeling downright divine (I'd invite you to run your fingers through it via the internet if I could), and I'm...

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