No More Greasy Girl's Camp Hair!

 
     I am going to girl's camp this year! Our church holds girl's camp for teenage girl's in the summer where they learn all kinds of skills and life/spiritual lessons.  It is always so much fun! I used to go when I was a girl and loved it.  My daughters all went and they loved it, (except maybe one of them). Sometimes I get to go as a leader and this year I will be a cabin mom.
     If there is one thing that I do not love about camp, or camping, it is having gross hair.  Now that I am older, my hair doesn't get greasy as quickly as it once did.  For teenagers, that is a different story.  So, when I saw this tee that says, "Camp Hair, Don't Care", I wished that I could truthfully say those words. The truth is, I always care if my hair is gross!
      As a cabin mom, I am always on the look-out for cute things to do for the girls in my cabin.  Since our theme for camp for this year is BOOT CAMP, I decided to look for camouflage bandannas for the girls.  (BOOT Camp stands for Build Our Own Testimonies.)  I couldn't find what I wanted for the price I wanted, so I found some fabric and started sewing them myself. Then I found this post on pinterest and the idea bells went off in my head!  I decided to make the girls camp hair goodie bags!  The recipe on the link above was for a small amount, but it showed the ratio of ingredients I would need to make a larger quantity and I was able to make it all for pennies! 
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    These are the two main ingredients for the dry shampoo.  The ratio is 1:1.  There are two cups of baking soda in the box, so I measured out two cups of cornstarch and mixed them both together.

     Now, the cool thing is that you can color your shampoo for brunettes and redheads! So, for blondes, leave the mixture white.  For brunettes, add some cocoa powder and for redheads, add paprika and/or turmeric.  (I added both.)  Then, add a few drops of essential oils for a nice scent.  Of course, the chocolate already smells good.  The redhead mixture smells a little bit funny with the paprika, so I added the turmeric to see if that would help.  It didn't.  So, I put in a little peppermint to mask it.  That helped but, I might fool around with it a bit more.  I put peppermint in the blond mixture.  I am running low on oils, otherwise I would have tried lavender or something else.  Here is what the mixtures look like.  I might add more cocoa to the brunette for darker hair.

     Now! On to the packaging! I went to Dollar Tree to find containers to put the dry shampoo in. I have used containers like these in the past. They come in packs of 10 for $1.00!  (As you can see, mine are already full with a salve that I make using essential oils.)  Dollar Tree was all out of them. So, I looked around and I found these!  

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     They are cute little baby food containers with snap on lids.  I also picked up round labels. 

       I had a little difficulty using the labels.  The package gives you link for a template, but I didn't find it very user friendly.  I promise that I will learn how to make things available for you to copy and use if you want to.  I just used  computer clip art for the picture. This recipe made 10 containers or the dry shampoo.  I am going to make another batch.  I put an R, BR, or BL on the bottom of the label to mark what kind of mixture is in the containers.  The little spoons came with the containers.  I thought if you were making this recipe for yourself, they would be cute to use to scoop out the mixture or something.  I will probably save them for my grandchildren.  They are sitting on one of the bandannas I whipped up.

      These are cute patriotic gift bags I found in the Target One Spot. 
      One place I like to go online to print cute tags, address labels, etc. is to the Avery website.  It is so easy to use and they have a lot of free art to use.  They didn't have a template to match the round labels I used, which were not Avery, but to make tags for my gift bags, I used an address label template and just printed it on card stock and then just cut it apart myself.

      Then I put the bandanna, dry shampoo, hair ties, bobby pins, whatever you want into the bag and stapled it together! 

  I love it! I hope the girls do, too!  Plus, who knew that dry shampoo could be so easy to make? Try it for yourself!