making your own silicone conditioner

**hollygolightly** · January 12th, 2019, 10:26 PM

I know the answer is to test it and see how it turns out but I wanted to ask for opinions. I recently discovered my hair does better with silicones than without them. The thing is the last conditioner I bought has no silicones in it and I would really like to use it since it has uv filter on it and I'm going to the beach for summer. I have an argan oil serum which is full of silicones and I was thinking of changing it for another product but I don't have the exchange ticket. Do you think I can mix that coney serum with my non silicone conditioner and create my own silicone conditioner? or it might not be the same?

**lapushka** · January 13th, 2019, 04:36 AM

I would just get a cheap silicone conditioner in the store, for the simple reason that I think it's more work and expense to make your own than to just buy a silicone conditioner.

What do you have available to you? I've heard of Novex and they seem to be great products (no idea if they have silicones though).

**Obsidian** · January 13th, 2019, 04:42 AM

I would try mixing a little in your hand, see how it goes. Use your normal amount of conditioner and add a few drops of the serum, mix well and apply.

**hollygolightly** · January 13th, 2019, 05:12 AM

Originally Posted by Obsidian

I would try mixing a little in your hand, see how it goes. Use your normal amount of conditioner and add a few drops of the serum, mix well and apply.

I think in this cases you just have to experiment

Originally Posted by lapushka

I would just get a cheap silicone conditioner in the store, for the simple reason that I think it's more work and expense to make your own than to just buy a silicone conditioner.

What do you have available to you? I've heard of Novex and they seem to be great products (no idea if they have silicones though).

I bought a silicone conditioner (the rosemary one by herbal essences) but I was thinking of using what I already had

**lapushka** · January 13th, 2019, 08:20 AM

I don't know about mixing a serum with a conditioner. An oil seems to do fine, but I think you can't use too too much serum otherwise it might become a sticky mess. I would use a small puddle, if you must and there's no other way.

Can't you use the serum in your hair after the wash? You don't need a lot of it, a pea size is sometimes enough, depending on how long your hair is. Serums can be pretty concentrated stuff!

**Obsidian** · January 13th, 2019, 09:09 AM

I've mixed coney serum into conditioner before, it doesn't turn into a sticky mess. I used roughly 2 tbs condition with about 8 drops of serum. I could have added a lot more, it was a nice creamy mix.

**lapushka** · January 13th, 2019, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Obsidian

I've mixed coney serum into conditioner before, it doesn't turn into a sticky mess. I used roughly 2 tbs condition with about 8 drops of serum. I could have added a lot more, it was a nice creamy mix.

Oh gosh, I really pump out the serum, I think about 9 pumps of it (small droplet pumps), until my palm is full and it doesn't run over, that I spread over 2 hands and scrunch into my hair.

Which is maybe why I thought in that amount it might turn into a sticky mess (my hair is never sticky, though). But see, I don't know what that does combined with a conditioner.

**Alibran** · January 13th, 2019, 11:27 AM

Just mix a small amount at first and see how you get on with it. If you like it, you can mix more. If not, there's no harm done.

**hollygolightly** · January 13th, 2019, 12:47 PM

I tried it today in the morning and so far is going well, my hair is nice and shiny but the reason why I went back to silicones was because my hair wasn't able to retain moisture, so i'll see how it goes in the next few days

**Obsidian** · January 13th, 2019, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by lapushka

Oh gosh, I really pump out the serum, I think about 9 pumps of it (small droplet pumps), until my palm is full and it doesn't run over, that I spread over 2 hands and scrunch into my hair.

Which is maybe why I thought in that amount it might turn into a sticky mess (my hair is never sticky, though). But see, I don't know what that does combined with a conditioner.

Dang, thats a lot. What exactly are you using? Even when my hair was apl, I only used 2 or 3 drops of my coney serum. Anymore would have left me a greasy mess.