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Sweet Salt Texturizing Spray for Hair - Simple Recipe
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Sweet Salt Texturizing Spray for Hair

Katie WellsJun 24, 2014Updated: Jul 30, 2019
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I’ve shared my natural hair spray recipe and my Beach Waves Sea Salt Spray before. I like both of them but wondered if I could combine them to make one everyday hair product.

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

Turns out, combining these two recipes is not only possible, but awesome.

I have naturally baby-fine hair and even though it is naturally wavy, it doesn’t naturally hold style well. My hair is also long and blonde, so it gets easily weighed down and looks dirty if I put certain hair products in it.

I stumbled upon my beach waves spray and homemade hair spray when looking for natural hair products that would give my hair some body without weighing it down or making it look greasy.

Katie Wellness MamaThis texturizing spray combines the texturizing ability of my original sea spray with the extra hold of my homemade hair spray for a long-lasting texturizing spray. (It is what I used to style my hair for this picture)

I also added essential oils to this recipe for scent and to stimulate hair growth. I spend a lot of time outside in the summer, and these oils help protect hair and encourage new hair growth.

Natural Texturizing Spray

This spray is incredibly inexpensive and simple to make and it has worked better on my hair than any store-bought product I’ve ever tried. In fact, even if you buy a top of the line glass spray bottle to use for this recipe (which can be re-used many times) and use all of the optional ingredients, this 8 ounce recipe still costs much less than a 4-ounce bottle of Bumble and Bumble Surf Spray, which is one of the few conventional products that I’ve ever really liked.

NOTE: I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the glass spray bottle in the picture above. I got it on Zulily and it is sometimes in stock but can be hard to find. I also recently tried this glass spray bottle and like it better since it can spray a fine mist or a thicker spray. Another option is to use an old apple cider vinegar bottle and just replace the top with a regular spray bottle top.

Sweet Salt Texturizing Spray for Hair - Simple Recipe

Texturizing Spray Recipe

Katie Wells
Give your hair body and holding power with this easy homemade spray made from natural ingredients.
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 10 mins
Servings 1 cup

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup distilled water (heated but not boiling)
  • 1 TBSP Epsom salt
  • 1 TBSP organic white sugar
  • 1 tsp spiced rum (optional -- acts as a preservative and prevents sticking)
  • 10 drops lavender essential oil (optional)
  • 10 drops lemon essential oil (optional)
  • 10 drops clary sage essential oil (optional)
  • 5 drops rosemary essential oil (optional)
  • 1 tsp coconut conditioner (optional -- helps prevent the spray top from sticking)

Instructions
 

  • Pour the hot water into a glass spray bottle.
  • Add all of the other ingredients.
  • Shake until ingredients are dissolved.

To Use

  • Spray into dry hair and scrunch until the spray dries.
  • For extra volume, use a curling iron to loosely curl 1-inch sections of hair and scrunch again.

Notes

Adding conditioner will not work for all hair types and will make the spray thicker. If you don’t want to use conditioner, you can just soak the spray top in hot water to dissolve the sugar/salt if it ever sticks.
For easy morning hair, braid dry hair in to a french braid (or french braid pigtails) at night and spray with this spray. In the morning, use dry shampoo if needed and unbraid hair. Re-spray and scrunch for all-day texture and waves.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

TIP: For easy morning hair, braid dry hair in to a french braid (or french braid pigtails) at night and spray with this spray. In the morning, use dry shampoo if needed and unbraid hair. Re-spray and scrunch for all-day texture and waves.

Ever made a homemade hair product? How did it work? Tell me below!

This hair texturizing spray combines epsom salt with volumizing natural sugar and essential oils for a sweet sea spray that naturally thickens hair.

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About Katie Wells

Katie Wells, CTNC, MCHC, Founder of Wellness Mama and Wellnesse, has a background in research, journalism, and nutrition. As a wife and mom of six, she turned to research and took health into her own hands to find answers to her health problems. WellnessMama.com is the culmination of her thousands of hours of research and all posts are medically reviewed and verified by the Wellness Mama research team. Katie is also the author of the bestselling books The Wellness Mama Cookbook and The Wellness Mama 5-Step Lifestyle Detox.

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Discussion (86 Comments)

  1. CHERYL

    June 29, 2014 at 6:35 AM

    Hi I made the spray it is great but doest it go bad it made 2 bottles for me and the other bottle smells when its sprayed? I do like it but dont use it all that fast?

    Reply
  2. Donna

    June 28, 2014 at 10:04 PM

    Can you use this on colored hair? My hair started turning grey early in my 20s. Now it’s totally grey but my wonderful hairdresser colors my hair to an auburn base with blonde and strawberry blonde highlights. I get compliments on it all the time, and don’t want to use anything that would strip my color. Reds are notorious for fading, but the EO coconut and hibiscus shampoo and conditioner that I get at Whole Foods does a great job at not stripping my color. Think this would work for me?

    Reply
    • Wellness Mama

      June 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM

      I would be slightly concerned about the alcohol being drying a little, and possibly stripping it. You might do a strand test underneath to see… That’s what I do.

      Reply
  3. Jean

    June 28, 2014 at 4:27 PM

    Do you have to use organic sugar?

    Reply
    • Wellness Mama

      June 29, 2014 at 5:12 AM

      It’s definitely preferable to inorganic sugar, but not necessary.

      Reply
      • Jean

        June 29, 2014 at 11:14 AM

        Can you use rubbing alcohol?

        Reply
  4. Kate Kaye

    June 28, 2014 at 2:19 PM

    Thanks for the help I will try and make the hair spray at the moment I have no essential oil handy and no rum but I will find something x

    Reply
  5. Becky

    June 28, 2014 at 12:10 PM

    Do you ever have problems with bees or flies when you’re outside since it contains sugar?

    Reply
    • Wellness Mama

      June 30, 2014 at 2:03 PM

      Not that I have noticed.

      Reply
  6. Jamie

    June 25, 2014 at 3:47 PM

    Could you use any conditioner in this?

    Reply
    • Wellness Mama

      June 25, 2014 at 4:41 PM

      Sure!

      Reply
  7. Bee

    June 25, 2014 at 7:23 AM

    In regards to the spray bottle, I’ve had incredible luck with myoilbusiness.com recently! I ended up paying $13 with shipping for four glass bottles with spray tops! The glass bottles are a standard size, so you could easily pick up different types of lids.

    There’s also a thread going around about just using glass water bottles with a spray top, but I haven’t tried this!

    Reply
  8. Erica

    June 24, 2014 at 11:08 PM

    I love the sound of this! A few questions, do you think Himalayan or Celtic salt would work also what about vodka instead of rum? This is what I have on hand…. Although maybe I could get some spiced rum 🙂 cheers

    Reply
    • Katie - Wellness Mama

      June 27, 2014 at 3:18 PM

      Both of those salts would work and any kind of vodka should work too

      Reply
      • Nelson

        September 26, 2014 at 10:38 AM

        Yay! I have vodka from making extracts. Great post!

        Reply
  9. Elizabeth

    June 24, 2014 at 10:49 PM

    I can’t wait to make this in the morning!

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  10. Irene Tiger

    June 5, 2013 at 2:23 PM

    Haha tee hee! Priceless. “…turns slightly green when placed next to a shinier specimin…” I know that feeling all to well.

    Reply
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