Begin to slowly heat and melt the ingredients over a double boiler stirring until the ingredients have fully melted.
Shampoo bar recipe with sci.
5 oz lye 8 oz castor oil 9 oz coconut oil 9 oz palm oil 10 oz distilled water 1 oz lavender essential oil 1 oz tea tree oil.
I rendered the beef fat from a cow we had butchered to make tallow.
If you ve got large flakes you ll probably want to but the little noodles look really cool in shampoo bars as is and the fine powder is very flexible.
I love using sci because it is sulfate free base that can not damaged.
Making my own shampoo bars at home is the best way to reduce plastic bottles and waste.
You can substitute palm oil in this recipe which has the same benefits as beef tallow.
But can i given it a hot bath to make a smooth shampoo.
Ready to go into the fridge for 2 hours.
If you re making a solid product you might not need to melt the sci depending on the format.
Tallow makes a hard bar with great cleansing properties.
Instructions weigh out the surfactants the sci slsa coco glucoside and coco betaine the shea butter and the btms in a double.
Add phase c ingredients and stir.
Prepare a water bath by bringing about 3cm 1 of water to a bare simmer over low to medium low heat in a wide flat bottomed sauté pan.
Begin by melting the scs with the water in a double boiler au bain marie.
Use up to 50.
Transfer the mixture into a mold silicone or plastic mold works best and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours until it solidifies.
Weigh the tucuma butter btms 50 stearic acid and cetyl alcohol into a second heat resistant glass measuring cup.
I found recipe for bar scoop with sci corn starch and eo.
Cool the mixture to approximately 45 c making sure it s still soft.
This mixture is very thick and difficult to.
I have never had a problem with my shampoo bar feeling sticky.
I mixed it and it s okay.
Unmold the shampoo bar and leave to dry for a couple of days.
Im really looking for something to gift friends and relatives this christmas season.
I usually use a glass container it could be the empty glass jar of your spaghetti sauce for instance and put it in a small pan filled with a little bit of water.
Water 517 g lisa uses half beer half aloe juice lye 192 g coconut oil 382 g olive oil pomace 408 g castor oil 63 g lard 340 g shea butter 42 g cocoa butter.
Batch superfatted at 5.
The solid shampoo paste.
Stored somewhere cool dark and dry sci should last for two years.
Opus shampoo bar 3 lb.
Add the scs to the sci cocamidopropyl betaine mixture.
Here is what you ll need.
Opus shampoo bar cold processed.