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Myth-understood: Does your hair need time to adjust when you start using a shampoo bar? Part one, comparing liquid and solid shampoo formulas and a few reasons your bar might not be awesome. 

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Myth-understood: Does your hair need time to adjust when you start using a shampoo bar? Part one, comparing liquid and solid shampoo formulas and a few reasons your bar might not be awesome. Let’s address the myth that your hair needs to “adjust” when you start using syndet or solid shampoo bar. The short answer...

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Q&A: How would you modify a shampoo bar formula to be a “no more tears” product? Part five, testing and alter the final pH

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Welcome to part five of this series on how we might create a “no more tears” kind of shampoo bar using various anionic, non-ionic, and amphoteric surfactants. In part one, we reviewed the surfactants that Alexander noted she has in her workshop – sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI), foaming apple surfactant, decyl glucoside, and Cocamidopropyl Betaine –...

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Q&A: How would you modify a shampoo bar formula to be a “no more tears” product? Part four, overview of testing pH and our formula!

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Welcome to part four of this series on how we might create a “no more tears” kind of shampoo bar using various anionic, non-ionic, and amphoteric surfactants. In part one, we reviewed the surfactants that Alexander noted she has in her workshop – sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI), foaming apple surfactant, decyl glucoside, and Cocamidopropyl Betaine –...

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Q&A: How would you modify a shampoo bar formula to be a “no more tears” product? Part three, increasing mildness by combining surfactants 

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Welcome to part three of this series on how we might create a “no more tears” kind of shampoo bar using various anionic, non-ionic, and amphoteric surfactants. In part one, we reviewed the surfactants that Alexander noted she has in her workshop – sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI), foaming apple surfactant, decyl glucoside, and Cocamidopropyl Betaine –...

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Q&A: How would you modify a shampoo bar formula to be a “no more tears” product? Part two, reviewing the solid surfactants

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Welcome back to this series on creating a “no more tears” solid shampoo bar! In part one, we reviewed the surfactants that Alexander noted she has in her workshop – sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI), foaming apple surfactant, decyl glucoside, and Cocamidopropyl Betaine – looking at their pH and potential irritation to our eyes. We need another...

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