So recently I did a coconut oil treatment to my hair and then after I washed it with my shampoo bar twice. My hair turned out great with no residue and it felt soft. I did wash my hair differently that time. I rubbed the bar in my hands then I rubbed my hands together to creat suds and washed my...
Hi everyone!
I started using a shampoo bar and noticed that it was leaving a sticky oily residue in my hair. I've read that there is a "transition" period were your hair tends to be nasty for awhile until it gets use to the new shampoo and I guess strips the product of the commercial brand...
Thanks everyone for your advice. I think the shampoo bar was fine just one didn't gel and one did. I still rebatched it just to be safe and it came out just fine.
I think the superfat just depends on people's hair type and what they like but what I've read is people prefer it low like 3% or 2%... oh okay I will test again. If it is lye heavy, what are my choices? :)
So I think I might have used too much water. Even though the recipe I used said 15oz of water, I put it through two soap calculators and both came out with 13oz of water. But I'm still unsure since I'm so new to soap making. One of the soap cal I used was brambleberry I don't know if that was a...
Here is the recipe I followed:
15oz distilled water
5.6oz lye
12oz coconut oil
6oz palm oil
10oz caster oil
8oz olive oil
4oz jojoba oil
0.5oz rosemary oil
This is the website: http://learningandyearning.com/DIY-Shampoo-Bars
I did test the smaller batch and I did get a tingle but I had to lick...
Thank you! I was so worried I might have wasted all that soap. But I have another question; Soap doesn't always have to turn back into a solid color? I just assumed it had too based off of things I read that seemed to always say after gel phase it goes back to a solid color.