Foamy Shampoo Bar Recipe

Reader Contribution by Deanna Duke
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I started using shampoo bars over a year ago when I found out about all the chemicals in my “regular” shampoo.

Between that and all the plastic packaging (which could only be downcycled at best), I decided to give up the liquid shampoo and move onto something that had no packaging and no synthetic chemicals.

Unfortunately, finding shampoo bars is a little difficult. They differ from regular soap in that they contain oils that are more gentle on your hair and help condition it. Oils like castor and jojoba. Since I had made my own cold-processed soap in the past, I decided to try to make my own shampoo bars.

However, trying to come up with a decent shampoo bar recipe was almost as difficult as finding the shampoo bars themselves. There were a couple recipes that I found online, but they just didn’t contain the ingredients I wanted to put in my homemade bars. After extensive research and going through my soap making stock, I settled on my own recipe. Below is the basic recipe, I’ll tell you how to customize it for your hair color at the end.

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