This review is for the Babassu Marshmallow bar from Chagrin Valley.
The list of ingredients is:
Ingredients: Organic Babassu Oil; Organic Sunflower Oil; Organic Coconut Oil; Organic Avocado Oil; Organic Jojoba Oil; Organic Mango Butter; Water; Organic Shea Butter; Sodium Hydroxide*; Organic Marsh Mallow Root; Organic Castor Oil; Organic Walnut Oil; Organic Aloe; Organic Essential Oils of Ylang Ylang, Lemon, Ginger; Organic Rosemary Oil Extract
And this product is defined as:
A natural shampoo bar made with nourishing babassu oil, a great hair care oil for thick, coarse or kinky hair. Babassu oil moisturizes and restores hair strength and elasticity, for shiny, healthy-looking hair. Marsh mallow root softens, soothes and hydrates the hair and scalp, providing relief from scalp irritation. A natural moisturizer, marsh mallow helps detangle hair for increased manageablilty.
The smell and such details: Out of the packet, it smells herbal. Nothing more distinct, just herbal. All of the samples smelled the same to me actually. But when I warmed it up in the shower, I could smell the rich coconut oil in the soap. And the other distinct smell, ginger! I love ginger, I use it regularly in my cooking, my tea. So I loved the smell of ginger in the shower. Ginger apparently promotes hair growth in balding areas. I cannot attest to that with my trial but I loved the smell. By my fourth wash from this bar, the smell of ginger was no longer that strong, but just a hint of it was left. It lathers rich, not as quickly as the Beauty and the bees bars do. The lather is good and cleans fairly well.
As for did I like this bar, not as much as I wanted to. I was looking for well moisturized hair but my hair didn't exactly feel so. I used quite some ACV mixture too to balance the pH. Somehow, after using this bar, the first day, my hair feels pretty smooth but by the second, it begins to feel dry already. I may have to try with a lot more of the acv rinse in my hair to see if that helps, but that has been my observation. Or should I be using much lesser ACV in the mixture? Back at square one looks like! My hair does not look frizzy exactly, but feels dry. Not that well conditioned feel any longer. By the fourth day, it feels quite dry. Like I need some oil on my hair to make it soft. Not the feeling I was hoping and looking for. So, I will not be using this bar again. Onto another bar then!
Friday, June 27, 2014
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Beauty and the Bees Tasmania - Rosemary & Mint Shampoo bar
So, today I shall write about my experience with Beauty and the Bees - Rosemary & Mint shampoo bar . I bought this sample box a couple of months ago when I decided to start with my shampoo bar experiment. I wasted more than a sample in figuring out how to use a shampoo bar on my hair, the ACV mixture balance and other such details.
One thing I could say in general about the samples from Beauty and the Bees is that they make my hair look shiny, very shiny like I used gooseberry or fenugreek on my hair. I tried the Moroccan Mud shampoo bar initially and I was yet to nail down the way to use it. So the second bar I decided to try was Rosemary & Mint.
I like this bar, really like it. It made my hair shiny, as with the Moroccan Mud bar. Also, I noticed less hair fallout, less itching, hair did not feel dry, was soft and manageable and over all I was pretty happy with it.
This bars lathers very quickly and a lot too. Hair felt pretty clean after using this bar. and I got about 3 washes out of a sample bar of about 20g for my long hair. I use the soap on the lengths of my hair too because I oil it a little before shampooing. It gets the light oil out too. So yay! an overall winner for me!
I always thought mint was more for oily hair and may dry out my usually dry hair all the more. But I was pleasantly surprised to find it working fairly well for my hair type. I did try it out without any oil on my hair too. So the verdict stands!
About my hair routine, when I read that I should use less ACV, I translated it to being using a little of the mixture. Boy was that a mistake! It made my hair seem matted, quite poofy (I liked the volume, I admit) and I could not exactly get my hands through my hair. I decided to muster courage and pour a lot more of the mixture one day and my hair seemed a lot more straighter and manageable. That is when I corrected my interpretation and have been using about a third of a cup of 1:4 ACV mixture. So far, so good. I lather the shampoo bar typically in my palms and use the later on my hair and scalp. This seems to work better than rubbing the shampoo bar directly on my hair.
Up next, Chagrin Valley Babassu Marshmallow shampoo bar.
One thing I could say in general about the samples from Beauty and the Bees is that they make my hair look shiny, very shiny like I used gooseberry or fenugreek on my hair. I tried the Moroccan Mud shampoo bar initially and I was yet to nail down the way to use it. So the second bar I decided to try was Rosemary & Mint.
I like this bar, really like it. It made my hair shiny, as with the Moroccan Mud bar. Also, I noticed less hair fallout, less itching, hair did not feel dry, was soft and manageable and over all I was pretty happy with it.
This bars lathers very quickly and a lot too. Hair felt pretty clean after using this bar. and I got about 3 washes out of a sample bar of about 20g for my long hair. I use the soap on the lengths of my hair too because I oil it a little before shampooing. It gets the light oil out too. So yay! an overall winner for me!
I always thought mint was more for oily hair and may dry out my usually dry hair all the more. But I was pleasantly surprised to find it working fairly well for my hair type. I did try it out without any oil on my hair too. So the verdict stands!
About my hair routine, when I read that I should use less ACV, I translated it to being using a little of the mixture. Boy was that a mistake! It made my hair seem matted, quite poofy (I liked the volume, I admit) and I could not exactly get my hands through my hair. I decided to muster courage and pour a lot more of the mixture one day and my hair seemed a lot more straighter and manageable. That is when I corrected my interpretation and have been using about a third of a cup of 1:4 ACV mixture. So far, so good. I lather the shampoo bar typically in my palms and use the later on my hair and scalp. This seems to work better than rubbing the shampoo bar directly on my hair.
Up next, Chagrin Valley Babassu Marshmallow shampoo bar.
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