Ida's Soap Box

With the increasing concerns for healthy hair and a healthy environment, our shampoo bar sales have soared. As a result, we have been inundated with questions about how to successfully use a shampoo bar. If you are successfully using and enjoying our shampoo bars please share your experiences with our Chagrin Valley community.

"Build up" in our hair and scalp is often unavoidable. While build-up can cause hair to look dull and lifeless, it can make adjusting to shampoo bars especially frustrating.

While the process for making a shampoo bar is the same as making soap and the ingredients are similar, a well-formulated shampoo bar is not your typical soap bar. Shampoo bar "recipes" are tweaked to use different proportions of oils and butters and to include botanicals, like nettles right, herb infused oils and essential oils that are known to help nourish the hair and scalp.

Syndet is a blended word made by combining the words “synthetic” and “detergent.” There is a lot of hype about using syndet bars to go "soap-free." The theory is that since they are less alkaline than natural soap they will not harm the acid mantle.