Interesting... bentonite is super drying to my face and hair, but works well in my homemade toothpaste. I'll look back at that Humblebee recipe and see if maybe I can replace some of my SCI with rhassoul clay instead. My hair loves rhassoul - thanks!
Great point!
Thanks for the reply! I wasn't going to but COULDN'T TAKE IT & I tweaked my recipe a bit today and made a couple bars to try out. I normally use powder and noodle SCI and SLSa... So basically I have those 3 at around 25% each with the rest additives. I ended up heating everything in a double boiler except the FO and Preservative, so they mixed well but took forever to cool down and were a bit sticky when pressed, but pressed so much easier. Hopefully they are not still sticky in a couple days & ready to try out.
OK, so, "a day or two" turned into a week or two, but here it is: My spreadsheets for formulating/cost/testing
Hi! My first thing is where did you get the square mold?? I hate round shampoo bars but I can’t find a deep enough square one for my 100 gm bar.
Thank you for the input. I got the mold through Amazon. That bar is about 75 gm. Here's the CDN link:Hi! My first thing is where did you get the square mold?? I hate round shampoo bars but I can’t find a deep enough square one for my 100 gm bar.
And next, i gave my shampoo bar to my sister in law and she took it to the lake where four different hair types used it with all of them liking it. My hair dresser tells me that it isn’t the shampoo so much as the conditioner that makes the difference. I have thick, wavy hair.
hHaving said that, most people believe that different shampoos are for different hair types .
So now that i have muddled the waters i would say the decision is yours
A lot of your ingredients that are meant to nourish the hair work better in conditioners, and just wash out of the hair when used in a shampoo. I think that's the basis of Gaisy's hairdresser's claim that conditioners make more of a difference than shampoo. If you think about it, it makes sense because shampoo is meant to remove stuff from your hair and scalp, and conditioner is meant to leave stuff in. So if you put stuff in shampoo that you want to stay in your hair, it can't stay because the shampoo does its job and washes it all out.
I didn't mean to imply I think you're new to this. I apologize if I came across that way. Personally, I never even thought about stuff washing out with shampoo until it was pointed out by a professional formulator. Most people don't think about that because the commercial advertising we've had drilled into us our whole lives says that panthenol in shampoo will stick to your hair. The scientists who study this stuff say that it can't stick because shampoo removes things like that.
I went to look at your mold link and I accidentally change the country. On my Amazon app. I couldn’t figure out where all my orders and wishlist went and it took me forever to figure out how to switch it back! Lol! That’s a cool mold BTW!
It's one I use a lot. I use it mainly for leftover bits of soap batter; they're the perfect guest soap size (IMHO) and my customers love them.
Agree! I had been playing with shampoo bars end of summer and a bit last fall until lotions took over as my new obsession. Now that I've gotten that bug worked out of my system, I'm back to playing with shampoo bars. This "season" of experiments is going back to less is more, which I had started last fall just to narrow down what does what in the shampoo bars (evidenced by actual use, not just by reading). Over the last few days I've become very intrigued by a few pared down versions (see my Sunday post above), and am looking forward to further experimenting with them again.
