riffwraith
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Hi all.
I have been buying this shampoo from a company called funky soap, which is in the UK, across the pond from me. It works really well, and the thing I like about it is that it doesn't have any of the typical chemicals you find in commercial shampoos, esp the likes of sodium lauryl (laureth) sulfate as a surfactant.
The ingredients are:
SAPONIFIED OILS OF COCONUT, CASTOR, OLIVE, ALMOND, NEEM & WHEATGERM, TEA OF NETTLE, MARSHMALLOW ROOT, ROSEMARY, LEMONGRASS, HORSETAIL HERB & LAVENDER FLOWERS, TEA TREE, LEMON, LAVENDER, LEMONGRASS & ROSEMARY ESSENTIAL OILS, VEGETABLE GLYCERIN
Sorry for the all-caps; it was easier to c&p rather than type all of that!
I am not trying to mimic this shampoo exactly, but I need a starting point to make my own. So, I emailed the co., asking what gives it the "soapiness". The response I received was:
Our solid and liquid soaps are made after the cold or hot process method. Thats means we use lye (Sodium or Potassium Hydroxide) to make them. All natural soaps are initially made with lye. It is impossible to make a soap without lye to saponify the oils. When the process is done correctly, nearly 90% of the lye is eliminated on the first moments of the saponifying reaction, the rest goes along with the curing and in the end NO lye is left in the finished bar or liquid. In the finished product there is only saponified oils. All soaps are PH tested to insure that.
Ok, fine. But that still doesn't help me!
So, I am wondering if someone can get me started here by pointing me in the right direction. Bear in mind, I am doing this in my home; as this is for personal use, I have no commercial facility nor equip. In that list of ingredients, is there something I can buy, that I can either use out of the box, or turn into something useable? Do I buy lye, and do something with it, that will turn it into one of hose aforementioned ingredients, that can be used as a starting point?
Thanks in advance.
I have been buying this shampoo from a company called funky soap, which is in the UK, across the pond from me. It works really well, and the thing I like about it is that it doesn't have any of the typical chemicals you find in commercial shampoos, esp the likes of sodium lauryl (laureth) sulfate as a surfactant.
The ingredients are:
SAPONIFIED OILS OF COCONUT, CASTOR, OLIVE, ALMOND, NEEM & WHEATGERM, TEA OF NETTLE, MARSHMALLOW ROOT, ROSEMARY, LEMONGRASS, HORSETAIL HERB & LAVENDER FLOWERS, TEA TREE, LEMON, LAVENDER, LEMONGRASS & ROSEMARY ESSENTIAL OILS, VEGETABLE GLYCERIN
Sorry for the all-caps; it was easier to c&p rather than type all of that!
I am not trying to mimic this shampoo exactly, but I need a starting point to make my own. So, I emailed the co., asking what gives it the "soapiness". The response I received was:
Our solid and liquid soaps are made after the cold or hot process method. Thats means we use lye (Sodium or Potassium Hydroxide) to make them. All natural soaps are initially made with lye. It is impossible to make a soap without lye to saponify the oils. When the process is done correctly, nearly 90% of the lye is eliminated on the first moments of the saponifying reaction, the rest goes along with the curing and in the end NO lye is left in the finished bar or liquid. In the finished product there is only saponified oils. All soaps are PH tested to insure that.
Ok, fine. But that still doesn't help me!
So, I am wondering if someone can get me started here by pointing me in the right direction. Bear in mind, I am doing this in my home; as this is for personal use, I have no commercial facility nor equip. In that list of ingredients, is there something I can buy, that I can either use out of the box, or turn into something useable? Do I buy lye, and do something with it, that will turn it into one of hose aforementioned ingredients, that can be used as a starting point?
Thanks in advance.
