![]() Once my hollyhocks stopped showing for the year, I let the remainder of blossoms completely dry out. They do tend to get lots of tiny critters so I left the box outside so the critters would take a hike. This led me to collect all the spent blossoms and dry them…fancy right…in a wine box even. When I pulled the t-shirt from the dryer, I was onto something. I was inspired by this beautiful artist, Cara Marie, to try my own version.Īs it turns out, it did dye the fabric, but mostly rinsed out in the first wash, except the purple flowers had dyed the garment blue. As my hand filled up, I noticed my skin was turning purple… I continued collecting them and grabbed a white t-shirt to see if I could create a floral dyed shirt. I noticed there were many spent blossoms and started pulling them off, this was the first time I had done this while they were wet. What’s a hair magician to do?Īnyway, back to the hollyhock blossoms, I was just starting to pull the spent blooms off the hollyhocks when one afternoon we got a nice drenching rainstorm. I started hunting for blue malva dried flowers at my distributors, and for some strange reason everyone was out of stock or it had been discontinued. I looked at the ingredients of Shikai Color Reflect Platinum Shampoo at the grocery store one day and realized it was Blue Malva that was being used. I had made an elderberry tea that had me scared my hair would end up pink…so that was out. While the QuickSilverHair Clay works to remove build up and some minerals that cause yellowing on our lovely silver hair, it doesn’t work for sun damage, heat damage and other more permanent yellowing problems.Īnyway, while I was in the researching phase of what was used in natural purple shampoos or other possible herbal rinses that could be made. I actually have put a lot of thought into this, even while I was developing the clay mix. You may be wondering why I am telling you all this, but this spring I was asked by a silver sister if I had any plans on adding a purple shampoo to my QuickSilverHair line. Then the next blossoms have room to bloom above the finished blooms. Part of growing them is plucking off the dried bit of flower after it is done showing. I ended up having these fantastic double blossom hollyhocks this year. I planted several seeds in my raised bed on the south side of my yard last year. Growing hollyhocks is not difficult but it does take patience, they take two years from seed to flower. I noticed a couple of years ago that a neighbor down the road had them in their garden so I gave it a shot to see if I could get them to grow. Each year my dad and I would take tape measures and see how tall they would get. As a child, we had them growing wild around our home. This summer I had my first crop of hollyhocks. Homemade Purple Shampoo: Adventures in My Garden Making Natural Purple Tint Get 20% off with Coupon Code QSH20 (on Loma’s website only) Sign up for my emails to get the notification. A full post of my favorite products will be coming up soon. I love these products so much, I became a brand ambassador (affiliate) for Loma Beauty. And, as you can see in my after photo, the curls are sooooooo happy!!! Bonus points!!! ![]() ![]() The conditioner had me “ooing and awing” at the slip and softness of my hair. The shampoo is sulfate-free but contains a chelating ingredient, which makes me think it might be helping remove mineral buildup as well as toning. They both contain a shampoo soluble silicone, and I have seen no issues, thus far, so I am not worried. ![]() No synthetic fragrance, it is scented with natural essential oil blends which doesn’t bother me in the least. These are the first violet shampoo and conditioner I have tried on my fine, low porosity, and dye resistant hair in six years that actually made a toning difference I could see, and I didn’t have a reaction of some kind to them. Loma Beauty is a line of Organic Based Hair Care…and I am in LOVE!!! For a multitude of reasons. What I found: Loma Beauty Violet Shampoo & Conditioner ![]()
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