 THE NEW PACKAGING IS HERE! Happy to say these little boxes are compact, lightweight and made with 75% post-consumer waste. Not only do they make good packaging, but they are also handy to use as a travel box for the Shampoo Bar...WIN-WIN!
For those that have not ordered our Shampoo Bars, the previous packaging was a compostable cellophane bag. Although I was confident in the compostable cellophane bag used, I learned that most were not able to or did not compost the bag at all. Recycling and composting are NOT the same things. Plus bags can jam up recycling machinery and I would never want to learn that my thoughtful packaging had done such a thing. To celebrate...there is a multi-pack discount deal on the website. Be sure to check it out! Save money and eliminate the wasteful plastic shampoo bottle. Message me if you have any questions about out packaging or products. xo Angie
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 While doing research for the Waste Free Products Shampoo Bar, I came across this well written and informative article. Before offering a shampoo bar, I wanted to make sure it would work well for many hair types, including colored.
Many homes have multiple people using the same products, so why not keep it simple. Offer a product that cleans well for curly hair, thin hair, coarse hair, frizzy hair and even hair that has been dyed. No one wants to spend money to dye their hair only to come home and have the dye “stripped out”. What a waste of time and money that would be! Personally, I have never colored my hair but I have many friends and relatives who do so I’m familiar with the term “stripping out the color”. Since I wasn't sure exactly how and why that happened, I did some investigative work and only to find out out that it’s not really the soap that strips the color out. Instead of me trying to explain it, I am posting the entire article I referenced in the opening of this post. Written by Loma at Hair Momentum. About the sulfate shampoos: The 2 popular surfactants that people avoid are sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and sodium laureth sulfate(SLES). These surfactants are very effective at cleaning with SLS being stronger. They remove oils very well and heavy build-ups of polymers from hair. That is why they are often included into clarifying shampoos or shampoos for fine hair. Some other versions are the ammonium lauryl sulfate and ammonium laureth sulfate instead of the sodium. The role of water in color loss: During hair coloring, the large dye polymers form inside the hair. These are trapped inside the hair because of their size. When hair gets soaked into water, the hair shaft will swell. In so doing, the cuticles are forced to open up as well. The dye molecules or fragments are then able to leave the hair. The role of lipids in sealing color: The usual recommendations for those who color hair are to keep the hair conditioned at all times. Why? Because oils/conditioning polymers/butters etc. are hydrophobic: they do not like water. Therefore they prevent too much moisture from entering the hair by acting as a barrier and prevent too much water from leaving the hair as well. They control the rate at which water moves in and out of hair. This job is usually performed by the hair’s natural lipid layer: 18-MEA. During coloring however, that layer is destroyed leaving the hair unprotected. Replenishing with external products is therefore imperative to mimic the behavior of the 18-MEA layer. Do sulfates actually strip color from hair? Like I mentioned before, the sulfate shampoos, being great cleaners, will remove those layers of conditioning. More importantly, they will remove the free lipids present in the intercuticular layers. Once the protective hydrophobic layer is gone, water can penetrate hair at its ease. The result: faster color loss. The more damaged the hair, the faster the loss. True: The sulfate shampoos have an indirect contribution to the color loss. However, they are wrongly accused of extracting the color. Final words:Unfortunately there is no such thing as a ‘color safe’ shampoo. Sulfate-free shampoos do not guarantee that the color will stay in longer. They are only making sure that the cleaning process is mild enough that the fading rate is slower. But as long as water is involved, fading will occur. In other words: water alone can strip color if you wet your hair on a regular basis. So now you know: water is the major culprit. Sulfates are just the sidekicks aiding it to strip color from hair. http://hairmomentum.com/sulfate-shampoos-strip-color/ I hope you found this information and article as interesting as I did. Please feel free to comment below, I would like to learn more about this topic. Gratefully, Angie Ringler www.wastefreeproducts.com |
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