Shampoo Bar Ingredients

Shampoo Bars are often made very similarly to bar soaps.  In fact, formulating a soap bar that includes ingredients that are beneficial to the hair is a great way to invent your own shampoo bar recipe.  From Nature With Love carries an extensive variety of ingredients that can be helpful to hair.  Try creating a cold process, hot process, or hand milled soap recipe using some of the following ingredients.  Click on each link to learn more about the  individual ingredients, and what they can be used for in hair care.

Vegetable Butters

• Aloe Butter
• Avocado Butter
• Cupuacu Butter
• Olive Butter
• Shea Butter
• Organic Nilotica Shea

Vegetable Oils

• Acai Oil
• Apricot Kernel Oil
• Argan Oil
• Amla Oil
• Arnica Oil
• Avocado Oil
• Baobab Oil
• Black Cumin Seed Oil
• Brazil Nut Oil
• Broccoli Seed Oil
• Buriti Fruit Oil
• Camellia Seed Oil
• Camelina Oil
• Carrot Oil
• Castor Oil, Pale Pressed
• Coffee Oil, Green
• Copaiba Balsam Oil
• Jojoba, Natural
• Kiwi Seed Oil
• Manketti Oil
• Marula Oil
• Meadowfoam Seed Oil
• Passion Flower Oil(Passionfruit), Refined
• Pequi Oil
• Vegetable Squalene
• Watermelon Seed Oil
• Yangu Oil (Cape Chestnut)

Essential Oils & CO2 Extracts

• CO2 Extract: Arnica Flower Total
• CO2 Extract: Chia Seed (Spanish Sage) Total
• CO2 Extract: Helio Carrot (Root) Total
• CO2 Extract: Oat
• CO2 Extract: Rosemary Select, Cineole Type
• Essential Oil: Bay, Dominican Republic
• Essential Oil: Cedarwood, Virginia
• Essential Oil: Juniper Berry, India
• Essential Oil: Neroli, Tunisia
• Essential Oil: Rosemary, Spain
• Essential Oil: Sage, Spain
• Organic Essential Oil: Yarrow

Herbs

• Amla Powder
• Bhringraj Powder
• Hibiscus Petal Powder
• Sandalwood Powder
• Shikakai Powder
• Stinging Nettles

Powdered Extracts

• Powdered Extract: Burdock Root 4:1
• Powdered Extract: Calendula 5:1
• Powdered Extract: Chamomile 4:1
• Powdered Extract: Green Tea Leaf 50%
• Powdered Extract: Oat Straw 10:1
• Powdered Extract: Stinging Nettles 4:1

Other Ingredients

• Lanolin Oil
• Silk Peptide Powder

Why are shampoo bars worth the effort?  Check out Beauty by the Batch's recent article on Shampoo Bars to find out more.  Shampoo Bars: Cleanse Your Hair Naturally and Inexpensively.   

What ingredients do you like to include in your Shampoo Bars?  Please let us know in the comment below.

Comments

[Carol]

Do you have an actual recipe for a shampoo bar?

[The Natural Beauty Workshop]

Hi Carol.  This article was meant to help folks create their own Shampoo Bar recipes.  Thats why we didnt list one in the post.  You can choose your favorite ingredients from the list in the article, then use our Soapulator Tool to create a cold process soap recipe in order to make your own, unique Shampoo Bars. Heres a link to the Soapulator Page: http://www.fromnaturewithlove.com/resources/creator.asp

We also have a few Shampoo Bar recipes in our Recipe Database on From Nature With Love.  These are customer submitted recipes, so I would definitely recommend running the Cold Process recipes through our Soapulator, or another Soap Calculator before using them.  Youll want to make sure that the levels of Lye are safe.  Here are links to the recipes we have in our Recipe Database:

Mango Mint Shampoo Bar: http://www.fromnaturewithlove.com/recipe/recipe.asp?recipe_id=260
Shampoo Bar II: http://www.fromnaturewithlove.com/recipe/recipe.asp?recipe_id=58

Citrus Blast MP Shampoo Bar: http://www.fromnaturewithlove.com/recipe/recipe.asp?recipe_id=297

[Kay]

Love the natural oils used in shampoo bar soaps. This is the first time I heard of coffee oil used in soap. How interesting.

[Mimi]

I prefer a simple recipe. I really love the citrus essential oils (preference for lemongrass or orange) in my shampoo bars for oily hair. Lavender and rosemary essential oils are also added and this blend is my favorite for shampoo bars. Olive leaf and comfrey root powders are the final add-ins.

I really apprciate this post. I can try some new recipes and see how they work. Thanks!

[The Natural Beauty Workshop]

 I love lemongrass in shampoo bars too!  One of my favorite shampoo bars was a beer soap scented with lemongrass. It was a pleasure to use, and lovely on my hair.  Im glad you enjoyed this post. Have fun experimenting!