Happy Dry Shampoo Day! Yep – apparently this is a thing? Am I the only one who loves celebrating odd “days of the year?” Ok – Ok I probably am. As obscure as having a day to celebrate dry shampoo is, I still thought it would be fun to show you how I make my own dry shampoo. It’s such an easy thing to make, which for me, is a must. I don’t have time to DIY a bunch of things so being able to make something with ingredients I already have in my pantry is a bonus!

I never used dry shampoo until I started thinking about my water consumption. I was taking long, scalding showers every single night and washing may hair with phthalate ridden, plastic bottled shampoos. It was killing my hair. I felt like I had to wash my hair every day because if I didn’t, it was a greasy, stringy, nasty mess. For the longest time, I thought it was just my genetics – oily hair. Then I started doing a little research. I found that when you continually strip your hair of its natural oils that it works 10X harder to replace them – causing my greasy hair problem.

I needed to condition my hair to work less and that meant washing my hair less. I also knew that my water consumption was way higher than it should be so using dry shampoo is my way of cutting down that consumption by a lot! I wash my hair every three days (I’d like to eventually make it longer in between washes) and I use this dry shampoo on the days I don’t.

Homemade Dry Shampoo

This shampoo is only 2 ingredients! Because I have darker hair – I add cocoa powder to darken it so I don’t look like I have white powder in my hair all day. I also make my dry shampoo in small batches at a time so I can fit the jar in my toiletries bag but you can make as much as you’d like.