How to Produce Anti-Dandruff Hair Cream In Nigeria

Dandruff is one of the hair challenges people face and over the years, lots of research has been going on to help curb and manage it. If you’re looking out for ways to produce anti-dandruff hair cream at home, this article is for you because we’ve done our own research and we have come up with the guidance contained in this article to help you through.

Dandruff is excess skin produced by your skin cells in excess. It replaces the old skin because as new skin cells are produced, the new replaces the old, thereby causing flakes (dandruff) to occur. It is worthy of note however that dandruff is not contagious and dandruff is not infectious.

How to Produce Anti-Dandruff Hair Cream In Nigeria

To produce anti-dandruff at home in Nigeria, you need to first understand the difference between dandruff and dry scalp and to be sure you’re not mistaking dry scalp for dandruff.

Although the difference between the two may not be too visible, you can still tell them apart because while dry scalp flake is white, smaller and easily falls off, the flakes from dandruff are heavy, colored, and may not easily fall off.

Having dandruff is not related to one’s personal hygiene and therefore it isn’t safe to say that dandruff comes as a sign of being dirty. They can happen to just anyone irrespective of their hygiene system. 

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Anti-Dandruff Hair Cream Ingredients

To produce anti-dandruff at home, you would need the following ingredients. Please note that the ingredients are not limited to the following;

• Petroleum jelly
• Paraffin oil
• Vitamin E
• Peppermint
• Candle wax
• Lanolin
• Shea butter
• Fragrance
• Oil-based color
• Menthol
• Calyptus
• Sulphur
• Methylsal

Anti-Dandruff Hair Cream Equipment

The equipment needed to produce anti-dandruff hair cream is used in the production process literally. They help you mix everything thoroughly so that you can achieve a smooth finish/consistency.

The types of equipment needed are;

• Hand gloves
• Nose mask
• Spatula
• Stirring spoon
• Pot
• Stove/cooker
• Water and soap

How to Produce Anti-Dandruff Hair Cream: Production Procedure

To produce anti-dandruff hair cream, the following procedures should be adhered to

• Lit your stove/cooker and place your pot on it, let it heat up until it dries.
• Pour in paraffin oil.
• Add your candle wax, stir and allow it to melt.
• Add petroleum jelly and keep stirring till it melts off
• Add shea butter and lanolin, allow to melt and bring the pot down
• Add menthol to the mixture and stir as you add.
• Stir continuously as you add in sulphur. Do not let it mould
• Add peppermint, methysal and calyptus and keep stirring
• Add in your fragrance
• Add vitamin E and continue stirring
• Add your preferred colour, stir continuously until all the ingredients mix thoroughly.
• Package it, add label and sell.

Anti-Dandruff Hair Cream Packaging And Branding

To produce anti-dandruff hair cream and stay on top of your game, you have to use the right packaging and branding for your business. Employ the services of a good graphic designer to design beautiful graphics, labels, and logos for your business.

Move away from the conventional packaging flying around and do something out of the box for your brand.

The packaging gives you a unique identity and makes your brand stand out so be sure to do something that people can easily remember and attach to your brand.

There are other brands too that sell packaging bottles and containers, order from them, pack your produced hair cream into them and give your brand a facelift.

You can get your graphic designer to design a suitable packaging/label for the container, calculate the cost of everything and put a price tag on your product.

Anti-Dandruff Hair Cream Marketing

Marketing your hair cream after production is very important because that’s where your profit comes from. Market your profit in salons, stores, the general market, and even in schools for students to buy. Create social media handles for publicity so that more people would get to know about your business and patronize you.

You can also get reviews from your customers on social media to boost sales or improve where necessary. Anti-dandruff hair cream production is a very lucrative business, manage it properly and you will make enough profit to smile at the bank.

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Conclusion

Dandruff is a common condition that may be difficult to treat and can be very embarrassing so do not downplay any ingredient. Produce quality hair cream to combat it so that your customers can rest assured they’re getting value for their money.

You can as well go for professional training so that you will be able to make products fit for different hair types and be able to carry out hair testing to enable you can give professional advice to people who want to buy your product.

This business is both capital incentive and not but however you choose to do it, make quality products and give people value for their money. Start small, do it afraid, and grow as you go.

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