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Solid Shampoo Bar Recipe With SCI

Make a homemade mild shampoo, where you know about all the ingredients, made with a mild surfactant and a pH of 5.5, the right one for your hair. Customize it for your hair type and with your favorite scent.
Dificulty: Easy
Weight: 200g
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Method: Syndet Bar
Cosmetic: Syndet Bar
Servings: 1 shampoo bar (100g)
Cost: $4,3 / 4€

Ingredients

Solid Ingredients

Liquid Ingredients

Cooling Phase Ingredients

Instructions

Preparations and Good Practices

  • Learn how to make a syndet bar in How Do You Make a Syndet Bar? or watch the video above. They don't have a recipe but explain in general the steps and ingredients to produce a syndet bar.
    How Do You Make a Syndet bar
  • Disinfect all your equipment before starting. You can boil some of your equipment (like the double boiler, glass cups, spoons), and use a solution of 1 liter of water with 1/2 cup of bleach, for items that are not heat-resistant (like the milk frother, plastic cups or the lotion containers)
    Disinfect-equipment
  • Measure all ingredients and prepare your workstation. Wear a mask as the SCI releases an irritant dust cloud

Liquid Phase

  • Put a pan with water into the stove (any water as this is for bagne-marie)
    pan-with-water-for-bagne-marie
  • Add the liquid ingredients (betaine, argan oil, and BTMS) into the double boiler or a metal jug. Let it heat in low heat , until the BTMS is completely melted.
    heating liquid ingredients

Solid Phase

  • Cetyl alcohol helps smooth and soften hair and the skin of your scalp. However, it's an addictive in this formula and you can skip it entirely.
    cetyl-alcohol
  • Mix all solid ingredients: SCI (wear a mask), cetyl alcohol, the red clay. The hydrolised silk protein I am using is liquid, but If you're using in powder form, add now to the solid ingredients.
    mixing-dry-ingredients
  • Without removing the double boiler from heat, add the solid ingredients, roughly 1/3 at a time. You can eye ball it, as this is only to ease mixing and melting the solid ingredients. Mix well with a spoon or whisker each time you add a portion of solid ingredients, until you have an homogeneous paste.
    add-dry-ingredients-to-liquids
  • Mix and heat the mixture in low heat until it has the consistency of homogeneous mush or porridge. Add 1 or 2 teaspoons of distilled water if the mixture is too thick. You will have to be patient as this step takes time.
    sci-melted
  • Remove the double boiler or jug from heat. Mix a bit to cool down the mixture.
    cooling-syndet-batter

Make Your Bars

  • At around 40ºC-50ºC (104ºF-122ºF), add the cooling phase ingredients: essential oils, preservative, hydrolized silk and d-panthenol. You may dissolve the d-panthenol in the hydrolized silk first. Mix well.
    adding-cooling-ingredients
  • Take a small spoon of the mixture (1/8 tsp) and rub some water in it. Use a pH strap to measure pH. Should be 5-6.
    measuring-pH-with-test-paper
  • If pH is too high add a teaspoon of lemon juice or citric acid dissolved in water. If pH is too low, add one teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in water. Mix very well and measure the pH again.
    adding-citric-acid-with-water
  • When pH is corrected (should be 5.5, or at least between 5 and 6), pour the mixture into soap molds. After unmolding let them dry for 2 or 3 days.
    molding-red-syndet-bars
  • This wonderful shampoo bar is ready to use!
    pink-syndet-shampoo-bars

Video

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