Would this make a good shampoo bar recipe?

[shugohmk]

This is the recipe that I came up with. Can anyone tell me if this would make a good recipe for a shampoo bar? Also, can anyone tell me how I can add sodium lactate to make this bar last longer and hard? I'm afraid that this might be soft still after molding. Thanks!!

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

It might have too much coconut. Did you read the thread about Ginny's shampoo bar? There is a lot of theory there about what makes a good bar.

As for the SL, you can add it to your water at about 2-3% of the oil weight before adding the lye

 

[shugohmk]

It might have too much coconut. Did you read the thread about Ginny's shampoo bar? There is a lot of theory there about what makes a good bar.

As for the SL, you can add it to your water at about 2-3% of the oil weight before adding the lye

I didn't think there would be too much based on the cleansing amount the calculator gave me but I will try lowering it.

As for the SL, i would take out 0.64oz of water and replace that with 0.64oz of SL right?

 

[kumudini]

I think a shampoo bar is better if formulated based on what your hair needs, moisturizing vs cleansing, the kind of water you have and if you r going to condition your hair afterwards or not. Genny's recipe and the whole thread named 'shampoo bar-thanks Lindy!, has the concept very well explained and gives further tools to decide what you need in a shampoo bar and how to get there. I read the whole thread one night as I badly needed a good shampoo bar, that would let me go all natural and still have good, easily managed hair. I gained enough info and then made myself a very nice bar that met my requirements.
In case you r interested,my hair is dry, medium thick, waist length with lots of flyaways. Always looks frizzy even though it's generally not. My soap is 45 OO, 40 SAO, 10 CO, 5 CaO. I used many herbs for hair that Im familiar with like Amla, Henna, fenugreek, Hibiscus, basil, Rosemary. I did HP and and added 5%SF with herb infused EVCO. Genny's recipe has no coconut oil but I added some because I tend to oil up before hair wash and I need the cleansing from coconut oil.
The bar is nice and hard. I added sugar, salt and CA to the water before lye.

 

[Dahila]

lower CO to 5 % and add soapworth