Mayonnaise in soap?

[dyclement05]

Hi Soapies!!
I've been fighting off a flu or some other pestilence invasion and haven't soaped in a week. I have, however, been playing with my soap calc app and have been trying to formulate a lovely shampoo bar!

I have thick, curly hair that I flat iron straight as a stick so my hair usually takes a hot beating every day. I started thinking about the many conditioning things people would suggest for their hair: beer, eggs, mayonnaise! And I started thinking, could I put mayo in a shampoo bar?

Has anyone here used mayo in their CP soap? What did it do for the soap?

Thanks for any and all insights!

 

[Lindy]

That might be a little more complicated but I can tell you that in the 70's we used to use it as a conditioner. So my thoughts are why not try to create a hair conditioner with it. I would recommend that you keep the %age beneath 10% due to preserving issues.... But why not make a shampoo with beer and egg as part of it?

 

[melstan775]

You can use beer as a straight conditioner. Mayonnaise will get greasy, so I suggest you make your own with olive oil and egg whites, with only one yolk. And don't leave it on for more then 15 minutes. Your hair absorbs protein like a balloon - once it is full, it is full, and if you overfill it, it will pop, so there's no benefit in leaving protein conditioners on longer then a few minutes. If you do you will end up greasy and possibly frizzy.

 

[Lindy]

melstan I didn't know that. Huh.....

 

[Maythorn]

I guess if you used it in soap look at whether it was made with soybean, canola or olive oil and use the same SAP numbers and it should incorporate in like yogurt does (about same thickness). I like mayonnaise on hair and dry skin.

 

[thefarmerdaughter]

I make home made mayo. just eggs salt sugar vinegar and your oil of choice. If you leave out the flavorings and acid your left with whipped eggs in oil. So why not look into making an egg soap/shampoo bar and rinse with vinegar, it would be mayo -esque.

 

[lizflowers42]

This doesn't answer your question, but I have curly hair and here's my deep conditioning rememdy. 2 times a month I will use coconut oil as a deep conditioner, just scoop out a blob, warm it in your hands, and massage into your hair and scalp. Then I wrap my head in my little turbie twist and go about my weekend cleaning. Then after an hour or so I just shower and let the warm water melt off the excess oil, and go! Since my hair is baby fine it provides the perfect amount of weight to tame the frizzies for the first day without any other styling products.

I used to be a flat iron junkie, but after college and into my first professional job I needed to cut some of that primp time for an early am job, and thus wearing my hair curly was born!

 

[Mandarin]

I can tell you that in the 70's we used to use it as a conditioner. So my thoughts are why not try to create a hair conditioner with it.

Mayo is STILL the best conditioner there is be it store-bought or homemade. It sounds icky, but it works. My husband has coarse hair and mayo makes his hair beautiful. If you just wash it out well afterwards, you will LOVE your hair.