Ida's Soap Box

With the increasing concerns for healthy hair and a healthy environment, our natural 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 natural shampoo bars please share your experiences with our Chagrin Valley community.

Although we work hard to make products so that they are always available, despite our best efforts, there may be times when some items are out-of-stock. Since we often receive emails from customers asking us “why” items go out-of-stock, I thought it might be helpful to explain some of the more common reasons.

"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.