shampoo bar

Creating a shampoo bar from scratch: Let’s meet the powdered surfactants

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Yesterday, we met a new powdered surfactant – sodium coco sulfate or SCS – and used it in a potential duplication for Lush’s Jumping Juniper shampoo bar. In both posts, I mentioned repeatedly that we need to reduce the pH to be more acidic as alkaline products – those over pH 8 – are just...

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Subscriber exclusive: Potential duplication of Lush Jumping Juniper shampoo bar (part two)

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 We’ve reviewed the ingredient list and the potential ingredients we might use, so let’s take a look at the potential formula… POTENTIAL DUPLICATION OF LUSH’S JUMPING JUNIPER SHAMPOO BAR USING SCS HEATED WATER PHASE 5% lavender hydrosol 5% rosemary hydrosol 1% propylene glycol SCS PHASE 87.6% sodium coco sulfate COOL DOWN PHASE 0.5% liquid Germall...

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One ingredient, five products: Stearic acid – shampoo bar

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I love shampoo bars. I think they may be my favourite product I make. Don’t get me wrong! I love my lotions and potions and body washes and everything else, but the thing that changed the way I see my hair and making things was this shampoo bar. I didn’t create this bar from scratch....

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Weekend wonderings: Rice bran oil, stearic acid, shampoo bars, and using glycerin in anhydrous products

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Every day I see so many great comments and e-mail messages from wonderful readers like you, but I find I have a hard time getting to them when I only have so much time to write in the mornings. So I’ve decided to create a new series called Weekend Wonderings where you can find those...

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Shampoo: Conditioning shampoo bars for dry hair

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So how will a shampoo bar for dry hair differ from one for oily hair? We can’t reduce the surfactants as we normally would for dry hair, but we can change the types of surfactants we’re using and increase the oils and butters. Dry hair likes gentle cleansing, so we want to use really gentle...

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