DIY Hair Pomade (Sculpting Wax)

Natural DIY hair pomade with a few simple ingredients. Style your short hair with ease with this natural pomade recipe. Follow my tips below for making your own hair styling products.

Ingredients you will need: beeswax, olive or avocado oil, and vegetable glycerin.

This post was updated March 2019

DIY Pomade Backstory

I have been wanting to make this for the hubs for awhile now and couldn’t find the courage to do it! Well it finally happened and I am very happy with the results! Its pretty darn easy too!

When we first started switching to natural products I would just switch out each of my old products as they were used up. Pomade is one my husband has had a difficult time replacing.

He couldn’t find a good alternative to the conventional product he was using. The only one that he found he liked still contained petroleum based products and perfume. Two things we try to stay away from. 

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Tips for making DIY Hair Wax:

• Allow the ingredients to completely cool.
• Blend before it totally solidifies.
• Use beeswax pellets to make this recipe even faster or just grate beeswax with a cheese grater.
• Add essential oils if you want a pretty smell. But that is totally optional.

DIY Hair Pomade Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 Tbs packed beeswax pellets (or grated beeswax and pack it in measuring spoon)
• 2 Tbs + 2 tsp of olive or avocado oil (coconut oil might work too)
• Essential oils (optional)
• 2 Tbs vegetable glycerin
• 1 tsp cornstarch (optional)

How To Make Hair Pomade:

Step 1:

In a double boiler or microwave slowly heat wax and oil together until melted, mix well.

Step 2:

Add in vegetable glycerin and stir stir stir. Pop in the freezer for like 2-5 minutes. You don’t want it to be frozen, just to harden just enough.

Step 3:

Add cornstarch and essential oils and mix it really well. You can scoop the mixture into a food processor essential oils (optional) and blend. Or use a whisk. Place in a container with a lid.

It may start to separate a bit, just mix it up again and you’re on your way.

How To Use Pomade:

Use on short hair to sculpt and style!  Place a small amount on your fingers and rub through your hair. Style the way you like it.

It lasted my hubs all day and its all natural yay! Sometimes you  may get a clump, try to smash it between your fingers or  Just pick it out. No biggie!

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• Homemade Dry Shampoo

Which essential oils are good for hair and work well for pomade?

Depending who you are making this for you may want to change the essential oils. For men: cedarwood and rosemary would work awesome.

While lavender smells beautiful they may not want to smell like a flower. For women: peppermint and lavender are an amazing combination

• Lavender- can help increase the thickness of your hair by increasing the number of hair follicles (source).
• Cedarwood– can stimulate hair follicles and reduce dandruff.
• Peppermint – this study showed peppermint essential oil can significantly increase hair growth.
• Rosemary– can stimulate hair follicles and help grow longer, thicker hair and can help with premature baldness (source). Also helpful with dandruff.

Do you think you can talk your husband or friend with very short hair to try this? I thought it would take a lot of persuading, luckily it didn’t!