Comments on: Say Goodbye to Commercial Shampoo

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:23:13 +0000

Instead of jasmine try Ylang Ylang. It smells a lot like jasmine but is better priced – if you are looking at essential oils.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:52:30 +0000

I can’t wait to show this to my friend

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:46:05 +0000

I have never made soap at all before, but I’m hoping to learn after having tried the Godiva shampoo bar made by Lush (lush.com). The stuff smells amazing. It has jasmine in it among other things. Showering or bathing with a simple old-fashioned soap instead of hyper-engineered chemical cocktails is a kind of back-to-nature experience, but at $10 a bar it’s a luxury I can’t easily afford. So I need to figure out how to make a knock-off shampoo bar. Next, to figure out how to recreate their Jungle conditioner. The scent of that stuff perfumes your hair ALL DAY and it smells SOOO good. Anyone tried it?

By: Sustainable Luxury Boutique

Sustainable Luxury Boutique — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:52:12 +0000

I’ve been looking for a couple of months now in having a homemade shampoo recipe that really works. I will try this stuff and I’m hopeful that this will really work. Thank you for this information.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:56:52 +0000

Do you need to use a conditioner when you switch to using shampoo bars? My hair is very damaged.

By: Pinky

Pinky — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:03:00 +0000

I have been looking at this recipe for awhile and have been looking and looking for somewhere where it mentions using vinegar in a soap recipe. This will be my first attempt at making soap and I wanted to use this one because of the lemon juice and vinegar. I have just gotten so fed up with shampoos, I wanted to make my own. I do like using vinegar rinses, so seeing it in a shampoo bar recipe caught my eye. I am really glad to know that it worked well.
It looks like you basically did the cold process for this recipe, but I was wondering if you had tried doing the hot process, since it is in the crock pot. Both yours and the original writer do not talk about the self-churning and volcano effect that the hot process can have, and I was wondering if that was because of the vinegar keeping this kind of reaction from happening? Other crock pot recipes that I have looked at talked about this.
Thank you!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:01:27 +0000

I have been making soap for 10 years, never heard of vinegar or lemon juice in soap either. Sounds interesting though. I just might have to give it a try. I do think you might have a typo or misinformation about using water to rinse off lye. NEVER use water to rinse lye from your skin, it reacts with the lye and makes it worse. You always use vinegar to neutralize the lye without further damage to your skin. Just had to point it out, wouldnt want anyone to get hurt using the water.
I have also never heard of adding liquid other than the lye mixture. I guess you learn something new everyday . I hope you keep soaping, it is great fun.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:49:10 +0000

This is very cool!! I was wondering where you got your supplies from?

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