(342) Herbal Shampoo

Ingredients

• 100 gms. Ritha (soap nuts).
• 250 gms. Shikakai whole.
• 250 gms. Gooseberry ( dried Amla pieces or fresh Amla.)
• 1 cup fresh Aloe veera gel( 5-6 whole Aloe leaves).
• 1 cup blanch Hibiscus leaves (25 – 30)
• 1 cup blanch Hibiscus flowers( preferably red).

Method

1. Soak overnight whole dried ingredients all three together in 1 ½ litre of water.
2. Next morning boil on a slow flame for 5 minutes so that all ingredients become tender.
3. Heat another pan with ½ litre of water. when water starts boiling add hibiscus leaves and flowers in boiling water. Stir once and immediately remove from the boiling water. Keep aside in cold water. Please don’t throw boiling water.
4. Scrape gel from the fresh aloe leaves.
5. In a mixture grinder blend all three together (blanched leaves , flowers and aloe gel).
6. Separate seeds from soap nuts and shikakai pods. Please don’t throw water.
   • In a mixture grinder crush all three ingredients ( Soap nuts, Shikakai pods and amla). Please don’t try to make a fine paste. Coarse paste is also fine.
7. Mix all crushed ingredients as well as its water (which we kept aside)in a big pan and boil for 5 minutes on a slow flame.
8. Strain with a nylon strainer or with muslin cloth and store in a plastic bottle.
9. Please make a small hole with a needle in a lid of the bottle for aeration because we are not mixing any preservatives in this shampoo so due to the fermentation process gas will form which creates pressure in the bottle.