But can i given it a hot bath to make a smooth shampoo.
Shampoo bar recipe with sci.
Weigh the tucuma butter btms 50 stearic acid and cetyl alcohol into a second heat resistant glass measuring cup.
Use up to 50.
Opus shampoo bar cold processed.
I mixed it and it s okay.
Instructions weigh out the surfactants the sci slsa coco glucoside and coco betaine the shea butter and the btms in a double.
If you re making a solid product you might not need to melt the sci depending on the format.
Add the scs to the sci cocamidopropyl betaine mixture.
Im really looking for something to gift friends and relatives this christmas season.
Are you ready to make your own batch now.
Here is what you ll need.
Storage shelf life.
Tallow makes a hard bar with great cleansing properties.
I found recipe for bar scoop with sci corn starch and eo.
Stored somewhere cool dark and dry sci should last for two years.
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.
Cool the mixture to approximately 45 c making sure it s still soft.
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.
Batch superfatted at 5.
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.
Begin by melting the scs with the water in a double boiler au bain marie.
I love using sci because it is sulfate free base that can not damaged.
Opus shampoo bar 3 lb.
I rendered the beef fat from a cow we had butchered to make tallow.
Since i can t find slsa and scs in my place.
Ready to go into the fridge for 2 hours.
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.
The solid shampoo paste.
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.
You can substitute palm oil in this recipe which has the same benefits as beef tallow.
Begin to slowly heat and melt the ingredients over a double boiler stirring until the ingredients have fully melted.
Add phase c ingredients and stir.
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.
Making my own shampoo bars at home is the best way to reduce plastic bottles and waste.