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Beard Oil Recipe - Homemade Beard Oil. Homemade Face Wash - A Natural Facial Cleanser. No borrar-Cool site to look through| craftgawker. The Best Homemade Shampoo Recipe. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again….the BEST ideas come from the readers of this blog! Recently Heather emailed me with her “Homemade Shampoo” recipe. Now, I have probably read a million “shampoo” recipes that are similar to this before (OK…maybe 500,000), but none of them really “grabbed” me. I have posted about a couple in the past. Homemade Coconut Milk Shampoo was the first one, way back in August, and it wasn’t a huge hit. :-/ So, I reworked the idea and posted about my REVISED Homemade Coconut Milk Shampoo in March.

It’s one of those ideas that seems so crazy that it might actually work! To condition your hair…Heather has an equally “unorthodox” approach/solution….apple cider vinegar. “In a ketchup squirt bottle (the cheap ones you can get at the dollar store), add 1 Tbsp baking soda, then 1 cup of hot water.

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Pre-Shave Oil. Shaving Cream. Aftershave. Beer Soap - Best Soap Made Out of Beer. Yes, beer can make even the most benevolent of men do the most questionable of things, but beer now also has some decidedly more beneficial side effects. Much less prominent, but still: the yardstick of civilization. Soap. So, yes, beer soap is a thing, and it's for more than beer geeks. Turns out that the sediments in ale (also called brewer's yeast) are a bacteria-eating tour de force packed with nutrients like riboflavin, panthothenic acid, biotin, and lots of B vitamins.

Which is to say, malty soap is really good at clearing up acne and red splotches left by ingrown hairs, chilling out the symptoms of dermatitis and eczema, and maintaining balanced oil levels in your skin. You could, conceivably, take your favorite beer into the bathroom with you and scrub your body that way, but, well, you did that in college. Soap.