11 DIY hair setting spray to set your curls

With the previous blog, you came to know easy steps to create curls at home and avoid frequent heat from straightener and curling rod.

Now, I am going to provide you 11 easy DIY hair setting sprays to hold these beautiful curls at one place without using a pinch of chemicals into your manes. This is honestly insanely easy! Along at the end, there are tips and tricks to make your curls last longer, all simplified.

After using for around a month, I can conclude these payoff, I can not be more thrilled with the ease, simplicity, and working nature of these sprays in providing needed texture.

Bonus: You can sleep with these. Let’s get started with the fun part now

#1 LEMON DIY HAIR SETTING SPRAY

Ingredients:

1. Half lemon
2. 1 glass (250 ml) filtered or Distilled Water (Reason being ordinary tap water contains chlorine and other chemicals and minerals that may cause buildup in your hair)
3. Essential oil (any) – I used Lavender essential oil, that perfumy smell level up the game

How To:

Cut a lemon in half, squeeze it in 250 ml(1 cup) water, heat it at low flame for 15 minutes.

Strain and pour the mixture into a spray bottle and let it cool in room temperature. Add 5-8 drops of Lavender or tea tree essential oil.

Optional: Add 1 spoon vodka into essential oil before mixing it in water.

Close the cap and shake the spray bottle to mix it thoroughly. You can store it for upto 15 days in medium freeze setting.

Shelf life: 15 days

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#2 Aloe vera based DIY hair setting spray

Ingredients:

1. 1-2 TBSP Aloe Vera gel or from Aloe leaf
2. 2 cups (460 ml) filtered or Distilled Water
3. 2 TBSP Rosewater
4. 1 TBSP Glycerin
5. 1 Vitamin E capsule (optional)
6. Essential oil – lavender/ tea tree/ ANY-seriously!

This is the easiest and one of my favorite hair spray one can ever-ever use!

How To:

Combine aloe vera gel, glycerin, and rosewater with 460 ml filtered water. Close the bottle tightly and shake well before using it. Extract vitamin E capsule and add it along lavender essential oil.

It controls frizz and Holding power is one of the best.

Shelf life: up to 60 days

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^{I’m obsessed with this particular aloe vera gel(this is my 3rd purchase. yes, 3rd from the same brand!)}

#3 Sugar-Salt setting spray

Ingredients:

1. 1-2 TBSP Sugar (quantity your choice)
2. 2 Cups (460 ml) filtered or Distilled Water
3. 1/4 TBSP Sea salt or epsom salt
4. Essential oil – lavender or tea tree

How To:

Heat a pan and add 2 TBSP sugar(for extra hold) and 1/4 table salt or Epsom salt in 460 ml water, boil the mixture for 5 minutes in low flame.

Let it cool at room temperature, add essential oil. Pour the mixture into a spray bottle, shake well

Shelf life: 1 month

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#4 Coconut oil based DIY hair spray

Ingredients:

1. 2 TBSP of virgin coconut oil
2. 2 cups (460 ml) filtered or Distilled Water
3. Rosemary essential oil

How To:

Add melted(double boiling method or in a pan) virgin coconut oil into distilled water, shake it well after adding 5-7 drops of rosemary essential oil.

Shelf life: 30 days

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#5 Salt DIY hair setting spray

Ingredients:

1. 1 TBSP Epsom salt
2. 1 TBSP coconut oil
3. 2 cups (460 ml) filtered or Distilled Water
4. Tea tree essential oil

How To:

Boil and stir Epsom salt, coconut oil in a pan in 460 ml water in low flame, pour the mixture in a spray bottle after adding essential oil, shake it well before use.

Shelf life: 1 month

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#6 The ultimate DIY hair setting spray

Ingredients:

1. 2-5 drops castor oil
2. 1 TBSP Aloe Vera gel
3. 1 to 2 TBSP Sugar
4. Lavender Essential oil
5. 50 ml rose water
6. witch hazel (optional)
7. 2 cups (460 ml) filtered or Distilled Water

How to:

Add all these ingredients into one clean spray bottle, shake it until it becomes consistent throughout. You can use it regularly as well to improve the texture of your hair. Always shake it before applying because oil and water do not mix without using any chemical alteration.

Shelf life: Up to 45 days

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#7 Orange DIY hair setting spray

Ingredients:

1. 1 Orange
2. 1 TBSP sugar
3. 250 ml filtered or Distilled Water
4. 2-3 Drops Cedarwood Essential Oil or Any

How to:

Peel an orange and skin it, add sugar into it and pour hot water, strain it into a clean spray bottle, pour lavender essential oil into it.

Shelf life: 15 days

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#8 Witch hazel DIY

Ingredients:

1. 1 TBSP witch hazel – ALCOHOL-FREE
2. 250 ml distilled water
3. 4-5 TBSP Rosewater
4. 1/4 TBSP sugar
5. 10 drops ANY essential oil

How To:

Witch hazel is also used in cleansing the scalp and bring back lost shine to hairs and as skin toner. Aff sugar in rosewater and mix it well, add aloe vera and witch hazel into it. Shake well before use.

Shelf life: 15 to 30 days

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#9 Almond-Lemon based DIY hair setting spray

Ingredients:

1. Almond oil
2. 2 cups (460 ml) filtered or Distilled Water
3. 1/4 Lemon
4. lavender or any Essential oil

How To:

Add 2 TBSP of rogan almond oil into 460 ml of filtered water, squeeze 1/4 lemon.

Shelf life: 15 days

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#10 Apple cider vinegar DIY

Ingredients:

1. 2 TBSP apple cider vinegar
2. 2 TBSP aloe vera gel
3. 2 cups (460 ml) filtered or Distilled Water

How To:

Add apple cider vinegar and aloe vera gel into distilled water, stir until even consistency and strain it in a spray bottle.

Shelf life: 2 months

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#11 Rose water DIY hair setting spray

Ingredients:

1. 2 freshly cut Roses without any artificial perfumes
2. 2 TBSP Aloe vera gel
3. 1/4 TBSP sugar
4. 2 cups (460 ml) filtered or Distilled Water

How To:

Extract 15-20 fresh rose petals, heat at the lowest flame for about 15 minutes. Add aloe vera gel after cooling it at room temperature and pour it into a spray bottle.

It also helps in preventing dandruff due to circulatory and anti inflammatory properties of roses

Shelf life: 45 to 60 days

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To my surprise, I tested some more recipes and found these ones the best leaving the non-working part to count under my nay-nay experience.

Tips and Things to Remember:

1. Always let your sprayed-hair air dry.
2. Apply a second coat(if required after waiting for 20 seconds).
3. Always shake well before using it.
4. You can use these to improve the overall health of your hair as well.
5. Essential oils are therapeutic, always use one while making hair spray.
6. You can store the formula at home for up to 15 days to 2 months in freeze because no chemicals have been added in these to preserve, but hey isn’t that motto of this post! 😉

Do try it.

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