Recipe
for dry/extremely dry, grey, fluffy, brittle and/or curly hair and healthy scalp-skin:
- Wash your hair with herbal olive soap, once per week. The best choice is the Daphne soap, but this new Cretan-Garden soap is not available earlier than the beginning of 2026. The first batch is curing at the moment, but you can make another choice now here.
- Lather your wet hair with the soap bar, lay it somewhere on a dry spot, massage the hair and scalp thoroughly with both hands, and rinse with water.
- Repeat this.
- Take one or two drops of homemade laurel leaf hair conditioner1 oil from the bottle, and spread this over the palms of both hands.
- Then add this to your hair while bending the head down, so that all the hair is so much easier to go through. Pay attention to the zone of the hair where it was latest cut, so the hair-end, and where it can start to split; massage also the scalp.
- While the oil gets the time to be absorbed into the hair, you can finish washing the rest of your body.
- Then take the bar of soap again, and repeat step 2.
- Dry your hair with a towel
- Add one drop from the pump bottle filled with laurel fruit oil and repeat step 5.
- Do not wash this out
- Do not use a hairdryer, let your hair dry naturally.
A hint: An in a shop bought a so-called nourishing shampoo and nourishing hair conditioner may not be nourishing enough, or not at all, despite the fact that they name it for instance coconut milk shampoo, coconut milk hair conditioner, or almond milk shampoo and almond milk conditioner. To upgrade this “nourishing” shampoo and “nourishing” hair conditioner you could add a certain amount of Laurel Fruit Oil to the bottle, and mix it very well. The amount depends on the volume of the bottle. You must test it out yourself.
Start with for instance 2,5% of the total content, so, in a bottle of 385 ml: add about 10 ml Laurel Fruit Oil. If this is not enough: add more Laurel Fruit Oil.
Note: If your hair is also very brittle, dry, be aware that all shampoos (also nourishing shampoos) contain SLS or SLES, to create a strong lather, but SLS / SLES creates also dry hair. Read the article: About lather.
Laurel Berry Oil – The carrier oil “Laurel Berry (Fruit) Oil“—not to be confused with the Laurel essential oil, which is derived from the steam-distillation of the leaves of the Laurel shrub—can be used as a hairconditioner as well. Attention: the oil is liquid when the room temperature is above 20°C. (Olive oil becomes liquid when the room temperature is above 7°C.)
About the use of Laurel Berry Oil in haircare, Nature in Bottle writes: “Laurel Berry Oil is remarkably helpful in soothing dry, irritated scalp conditions and for moisturising dry, brittle hair.”
The oil is also used in the Cretan-Garden Daphne soap. A combination of both would be ideal.
Footnote
- Laurel leaf hair conditioner: create your own macerated oil, which is an infusion of dried organic laurel leaves in organic olive oil, and enrich this with laurel leaf essential oil. Dosage: 20 drops of laurel leaf essential oil on 200 ml olive oil. ↩︎
