This one didn't turn out. It's still curing and still soft. My ultimate shampoo bar is below!!

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I'm working on a shampoo bar that is made of soap, no detergents. As I explain in the video, the secret to using soap in your hair is to have a high superfat, otherwise it will be extremely drying.

With cold processed soap, the higher the superfat the longer the soap takes to set. You can cut this time down dramatically by using less water in your recipe. I've used as high as a 50% lye concentration, which is a water:lye ratio of 1:1.

In this recipe I used a 30% lye concentration, which is a water:lye ratio of 2.3:1. This is a pretty standard concentration, which is great for mixing colours since it stays wet longer due to more water. Combine more water with higher superfat and the result is a bar that takes about 1-2 weeks to cut. Too long for me, I'm impatient and I want to be able to cut within 1-2 days tops.

I also experimented blending my scents with clay. The idea is that the essential oils will bind to the clay, rather than saponifying, resulting in a stronger and longer lasting scent in the final product. I couldn't get the oils to blend with the clay, so there's that, and to know if it really works I'd have to do a head to head, video idea??

Switching over to colours, what I've realized with swirls is that more layers=better. The more layers of colour poured, the more dramatic the swirling effect. In this recipe, I only did 2 layers, so I ended up with chunkier colours and less stripes. It depends on what you're going for. For me I want these bars to pop and look crazy.

Recipe
44 grams Lye
104 grams Water
150 grams Apricot Kernel Oil
150 grams Grapeseed Oil
150 grams Coconut Oil
50 grams Castor Oil

Instructions
Weigh water
Weigh lye
Weigh oil
Add lye to water and mix
Add mixture of lye & water to oil and mix
Add scents/colours
Pour into mold, let rest for 1-2 weeks
Remove and cut
Clean and moisturize hair

00:00 Intro
00:18 Making Soap
00:52 Clay and Oils
01:14 Colour
01:45 Super High Super Fat
02:04 Cutting

If cleanliness is next to godliness, then is making soap the path to spiritual enlightenment? Probably

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