Beer for Your Hair: Beer Shampoo and Beer Conditioner

Beer for Your Hair: Beer Shampoo and Beer Conditioner

Beer: Thirst-Quenching for Your Hair

Beer has been the inspiration for many a song writer and more than a few poets, but does it have any other uses? You can use it in all kinds of bread recipes—from pancakes to beer bread—but have you ever tried using beer in your hair?

 

And, no, I’m not talking about going to a bar or a kegger and accidentally getting beer spilled on your head and wondering what the effects will be; I’m talking about intentionally putting beer on your hair in lieu of using an expensive conditioner or shampoo. You might be skeptical, but I am 100% serious: some women and girls actually use beer as a shampoo, a deep conditioner for their hair, or as a hair thickening agent.

Some claim that beer can be used as a thickening agent for your hair because of the vitamins and hops in beer. There are even a few companies that are marketing shampoos and conditioners with beer in them because of the properties beer contains including British Linco Beer Shampoo & Conditioner and Logona Volume Honey Beer Shampoo among others. I have yet to test either of the beer shampoos above, but I have heard good things about making your own shampoo and conditioner using beer as a key ingredient.

 

If you aren’t in the market for a pre-made beer shampoo, but would like to try using beer on your hair, don’t just pour a can of PBR on your head and call it a day; there is a recipe for both shampoo and conditioner that you can use instead. Both the recipes for shampoo and conditioner below are taken from THIS SITE, which contains a plethora of information about using beer as a hair product.

 

Beer Shampoo:

1 cup Mild Shampoo

¼ cup Boiled Beer

 

Boil a 1 ½ cups beer down to around ¼ cup of beer. Let the beer cool to room temperature. Try to use traditional beer (or a micro-brew) brewed from natural hops. When the beer is at room temperature, combine the beer and the shampoo and wash your hair.

 

Beer Conditioner

1 cup Warm Beer

1 teaspoon Jojoba Oil

 

Combine the beer and the jojoba oil and condition your hair after washing your hair with your standard shampoo—not the Beer Shampoo listed above.

 

In theory, your hair will feel thicker after using the beer shampoo and/or conditioner. Let me know if you try either recipe and tell me what you think.