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Time-Saving Tips For Making Homemade Flaxseed (Linseed) Gel Sometimes making homemade hair gel can feel like an inconvenient chore when you have a dozen other things competing for your attention. But few products are as effective in so many types of hair and  good for hair at the same time as homemade hair gels. Need I even mention that homemade flaxseed gel is wonderfully inexpensive? So I'll share some of my tips to help prevent your flaxseed gel making plans from falling through. Need a recipe? Here's my basic recipe. Preparing Ahead of Time: Get your tools and ingredients ready for when you have time to do the actual "cooking" so you don't have to do the preparation and cooking at the same time. You can do these a day or two in advance. Clean and sterilize bottles, funnels, utensils and put them someplace clean, protected (keep out dust and insects) and out of the way Assemble all your ingredients in one place. Cooking and clean-up tips: Stir during heating s...

If you make homemade hair gels (I won’t discuss other products right now because ionic-charged ingredients in conditioners or shampoos makes preserving more complicated), and you do not store them in the refrigerator – or if you usually do, but are going away from home, then you need to think about preservatives. This refers to flaxseed based gels, vegetable gum based gels (guar gum, xanthan gum), aloe based gels, or any other vegetable-based gel (psyllium, okra…). ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 How Can A Product Go Bad? Rancidity can happen to oils (aka oxidation) if you use them. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 Bacteria or fungi can grow, using the sugar and nutrient-rich gel for food, also excreting their metabolic wastes into the gel causing cloudiness, fermentation, changes in thickness and texture and odor. These are the biggies, not only because they ruin your gel, but because the bacteria (or fungi) growing in your un-preserved, un-refrigerated gel could be pathogenic. Let me get up on my...