Hair Care > Soapwort Shampoo

How to make soapwort shampoo:

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Mountain Rose Herbs
Mountain Rose Herbs offers a wide range of dried herbs and spices. For this recipe, they offer soapwort root.


Ingredients

1/2 teaspoon dried soapwort root (crushed and soaked in 3/4 pint water overnight)
or
5 fresh soapwort stems about 8inches long with leaves

Method

- Boil the soaked root in its soaking water or boil the fresh soapwort in 3/4 pint water then simmer for 20 minutes.
- Cool and strain through a piece of muslin.
- Bottled this ill keep for a wee in a cool dark place.
- It can be perfumed with 2 drops of essential oil such as lavender or rosemary.