DIY Shampoo Bar Recipe
This homemade shampoo bar with lavender and clay was one of the first soap recipes I ever made. The recipe was created by me with wonderful organic oils, soothing clay, and the most beautiful smelling lavender and rosemary essential oils. Read here why I am using homemade beauty products. This shampoo bar recipe contains the following ingredients:
Extra virgin olive oil Coconut oil Shea butter Castor oil Lavender essential oil Rosemary essential oil Water Fullers earth clay *Sodium Hydroxide
*Used during the saponification process to turn oil into soap. No sodium hydroxide remains in the finished product. These oils, essential oils, and clay will nourish the hair shaft, encourage strong, healthy, and furthermore shiny hair. Homemade shampoo bars are superfatted, which means that 4-10% of oils (depending on the recipe) will remain in the finished soap to make your hair shiny and your skin feel soft. Mine is superfatted with 4%. Using your own homemade shampoo bar is amazing since you know exactly what is inside. All my soaps are free of harmful ingredients. They are furthermore vegan and were not tested on animals, only tested on my own and on my boyfriend’s hair, haha. Check out Your Arbor to find ethical and sustainable products like essential oils.
How To Wash Your Hair With A Shampoo Bar?
Washing your hair with a shampoo bar is easy and also a lot of fun! At first, you wet your hair thoroughly, then rub the shampoo bar directly onto your hair from scalp to ends. Work up the lather with your hands, add more water if needed. Make sure that your complete hair has enough thick and rich lather, this step is very important! If you don’t lather up well your hair might end up looking greasy. So lather, lather, lather, and then rinse your hair with lots and lots of water to get out all the shampoo. I am using a light vinegar rinse afterward (just 1 tbsp of vinegar or lemon juice in two cups of water) which will restore the PH value of the hair and make it shiny.
Your Hair Needs To Get Familiar To No-Poo
If you have been using regular shampoo (especially shampoo with silicone) for a long time your hair will need some weeks to get familiar with “no-poo shampoo bars” as there might be a build-up from other products in your hair. It can take weeks or even months, but I can only recommend it to stop using a store-bought shampoo. Don’t be afraid and start experimenting with your own DIY shampoo bar.
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