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Give your hair the love it deserves with natural shampoos, conditioners and rinses.
Yield: 10 ounces Beer is one of my favorite beauty treatments for hair — nothing else gives my hair such body, bounce and shine. This shampoo is a cinch to make and it really works. After you’ve tried it, you’ll never throw out flat or stale beer. • 1 cup beer (any inexpensive beer will do—fresh or flat) • 1 cup Basic Shampoo or inexpensive commercial shampoo 1. Heat beer in a small saucepan over medium heat and boil until beer is reduced to 1/4 cup. Add reduced beer to shampoo and stir well. 2. Pour shampoo into a clean squeeze bottle or empty shampoo bottle. (You do not need to refrigerate this product.) Shampoo and rinse well.Janice Cox is the author of Natural Beauty at Home (Henry Holt and Company, 2002).
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