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Are you looking for a simple recipe for making a solid shampoo even for a complete beginner? Our solid strawberry shampoo may be just for you. The combination of two powdered surfactants, a selected oil and water will conjure up a practical shampoo for you that you will appreciate not only when travelling.
For making the shampoo you need only four essential ingredients, namely selected surfactants, an oil or plant butter and distilled water. The other raw materials can be varied in different ways, or even omitted under certain conditions. If you long for a simple solid shampoo with a sweet strawberry scent, use our recipe below.
If you want to prepare your own solid shampoo with your favourite colour or scent or you are looking for information on how to simplify the recipe even more or how to replace some raw materials, the following lines are devoted precisely to these questions.
In the recipe for a simple solid shampoo, a combination of two surfactants is used, one of them being sodium cocoyl isethionate, which represents a cleansing and foaming substance with mild degreasing effects. Also thanks to these properties, SCI is a widely used surfactant in cosmetics. A disadvantage is that in powder form it is easily released into the air, therefore it is recommended to wear a respirator during shampoo preparation until SCI has been incorporated into the mixture. Sodium coco sulfate is the second surfactant ensuring the cleansing and foaming properties of the solid shampoo. It is a mild surfactant made from coconut oil. It combines very well with oils and butters.For the proper functionality of the shampoo, surfactants are crucial. If you want to change the ratio of surfactants, it may cause the shampoo not to solidify or not to have the desired properties. The same applies to replacing surfactants with others (make sure that the surfactants are mutually compatible with respect to their charge, i.e. the rule of not combining cationic and anionic surfactants applies). This is also why, by manipulating the amount of these raw materials, you will obtain a shampoo with completely different properties.
When it comes to the use of plant butters and oils in the recipe, you have a wide range of available raw materials at your disposal. The mango butter from the recipe can be replaced by any other butter or plant oil that you prefer. If you increase the proportion of plant butter or oil, it may happen that the shampoo will no longer sufficiently degrease and, on the contrary, the excess fat will leave your hair greasy.
Distilled water is used in cosmetics because, in contrast to ordinary tap water, it has a higher purity and does not contain mineral substances that could react with other raw materials. In the recipe for a simple solid shampoo, however, you can also replace distilled water with flower hydrolats, which have also undergone a distillation process. At the same time, you can also give the shampoo a gentle scent.
Popular cosmetic colourants are precisely mica powders, which combine well with various raw materials. You can find mica powders in a wide variety of shades. Mica powders are also available that are modified to facilitate dissolution in water, so-called Mica AquaPearls. If you want a colourless white shampoo, simply omit the mica powder. Alternatively, you can use herbal or fruit powders for colouring, but here there is a risk that your shampoo will be more prone to more extensive microbial contamination.
A gentle strawberry fragrance oil was selected for its sweet scent. However, fragrance oils are not the only thing you can use to perfume your shampoo. An alternative is represented by essential oils from various plants. The range of essential oils is somewhat narrower than that of fragrance oils, because not all plants produce enough essential substances. Alternatively, you can omit perfuming completely.
Since the solid shampoo comes into contact with water during its use, it is appropriate for a preservative to be used. However, since the shampoo is a solid product with a minimal water content, with proper storage (i.e. the shampoo is always placed in a dry place after use so that it can dry and is not in contact with water until the next use), it is possible to omit the preservative if you use up the shampoo quickly. On the other hand, it is safer to always use a preservative, therefore, if possible, do not skip this step. You can replace Euxyl 9010 with any other broad-spectrum preservative effective in acidic and neutral pH (at least up to pH 7).
Keratin is a protein that occurs in hair and nails. It gives the hair strength and a healthy appearance. It is an active substance thanks to which the solid shampoo takes care of hair quality. If, however, you do not have keratin at hand, you can omit it completely. Alternatively, choose other active substances that are suitable for hair cosmetics and compatible with the other raw materials in the recipe and with the product pH, such as D-pathenol and others.
For the production of the solid shampoo, a silicone mold in the shape of a faceted heart was used. However, you have a wide range of various silicone molds at your disposal. Thanks to its flexibility, silicone allows easy removal of the finished solidified shampoo.If you do not have a silicone mold at hand, you can also form balls or patties with your hands from the shampoo mass before it solidifies.
As mentioned, you can experiment with homemade recipes to achieve the desired properties. However, the final result can be influenced by many factors, such as humidity, temperature, quality of the raw materials or their storage. Before you use any raw material for the production of a cosmetic product, familiarise yourself with its properties, recommended dosage, storage conditions and safe handling. Each raw material may have the potential to cause an allergic reaction in sensitive individuals, therefore before using the product we recommend finding out whether you suffer from an allergy to any of the raw materials or to the overall product, e.g. by a skin test. If you have very sensitive or very acne-prone skin, or you have other skin and health problems, we recommend that you consult a medical professional before applying a new product to the skin, whether it is a homemade cosmetic product, a pure raw material or a commercially available product.
Dear friends,how did you like this guide to making a solid strawberry shampoo? Have you already used any solid shampoo from natural raw materials that you came across somewhere in a shop? Write to us about it.Please write any questions or your observations or experiences to marketing@handymade.sk and we can exchange knowledge together.We look forward to your questions.Until saponification, friends.
