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Make 3 Organic Shampoo Bars for All Hair Types

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I often get asked for more shampoo bar recipes. I have a few that are my favorite that I use for our hair type. Organic shampoo bars are easy to make. If you can follow directions to make a cake, then you can follow directions for making soap or shampoo from scratch. Don’t rely on melt and pour ingredients. Instead, make your own!

Or get some now in my shop.

Whether you have dry, frizzy hair, oily hair that stays clean looking for only a few hours, or your hair is thinning, there are things you can do to improve your hair and scalp condition.

Make these 3 Organic Shampoo Bar recipes for all hair types made with cold process and scented with essential oils. From Simple Life Mom

First, lets look at what I’ve already published:

  • How to Make a Shampoo Bar with Coconut Milk
  • How to Make Goat Milk and Honey Shampoo Bars
  • Nettle Shampoo Recipe and How Nettle is Good for You
  • Plus so many more that you can find on my soap making page here.

You can also look into other types of shampoo and properties when it comes to shampoo, plus conditioner bars!

  • Best Superfat Percentage for Soap and Shampoo Bars
  • How to Make Liquid Shampoo from Scratch

Conditioner bars or spray conditioners are a must have for most hair types when using shampoo bars because of our hard water. They are easy to make. The spray conditioner is a no brainer and easy to use for anyone with any hair type.

Now that you know that I have a LOT of recipes and where to find them, lets look at the ones I’ve put together for you below (So exciting!)

Don’t forget to check out my shop for more shampoo bars here.

3 Organic Shampoo Bars

These shampoo bars are all great for most hair types. It’s just that some people need more of one thing than another. This may be caused by hard water, your diet, and other factors. Having the right kind of shampoo for your personal needs makes a big difference.

Organic Shampoo Bar for Oily Hair

These first organic shampoo bars are made for those with oily hair. It doesn’t dry your hair or scalp, but it does help to balance scalp oils and cleanse hair without making it frizz.

This recipe makes 2lbs or 8 four ounce shampoo bars.

Superfat Content: 5%

Ingredients:

  • 8 ounces olive oil
  • 7 ounces coconut oil
  • 5 ounces avocado oil
  • 5 ounces castor oil
  • 8 ounces filtered water
  • 3.5 ounces lye
  • 0.50 ounce sweet orange essential oil
  • 0.25 ounce rosemary essential oil

Directions:

  1. Combine the olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, and castor oil in a large steel pot. Heat over medium heat until all oils are melted. Remove from heat and allow to cool to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Prepare 2lb soap mold by lining it if necessary.
  3. Using a face mask, gloves, and goggles, take weighed water outside. Weigh lye into a zip close bag and take it outside. Pour lye into the water and stir until dissolved, being careful not to breathe in the fumes that are given off for 1-2 minutes. Allow to cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
  4. When both lye water and oils are cooled, pour lye water into oil and blend with a stick blender on and off until it begins to thicken (come to trace).
  5. Add essential oils and blend well.
  6. Pour into the mold, scraping the sides pf the pot with a rubber spatula. Cover and insulate for 24 hours.
  7. Remove from mold and cut. Allow to cure for 3-6 weeks to harden.

Note:

**If you’d like to use a different set of essential oils, that’s fine. Use around 0.75 ounce of whatever combination that you want.

Make these 3 Organic Shampoo Bar recipes for all hair types made with cold process and scented with essential oils. From Simple Life Mom

Organic Goat Milk Shampoo Bar for Dry Hair

This second shampoo bar recipe is for hair that dries out quickly and tends to frizz.

Adding milk to a shampoo bar, along with beeswax or other vegan wax, is a great way to help tame that frizz or tame those curls. It’s great for thick hair, helping it become more manageable.

This recipe makes 2lbs or 8 four ounce shampoo bars.

Superfat Content: 10%

Ingredients:

  • 7 ounces coconut oil
  • 6 ounces sweet almond oil
  • 6 ounces castor oil
  • 5 ounces beeswax
  • 2 tablespoons powdered goat milk
  • 7.7 ounces filtered water
  • 2.9 ounces lye
  • 0.25 ounces patchouli essential oil
  • 0.50 ounces lavender essential oil

Directions:

  1. Combine the coconut oil, sweet almond oil, castor oil, and beeswax in a large steel pot. Heat over medium heat until all oils are melted. Remove from heat and allow to cool to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Prepare 2lb soap mold by lining it if necessary.
  3. Using a face mask, gloves, and goggles, take weighed water outside. Weigh lye into a zip close bag and take it outside. Pour lye into the water and stir until dissolved, being careful not to breathe in the fumes that are given off for 1-2 minutes. Allow to cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
  4. When both lye water and oils are cooled, pour lye water into oil and blend with a stick blender on and off until it begins to thicken (come to trace).
  5. Add powdered goat milk and essential oils and blend well.
  6. Pour into the mold, scraping the sides pf the pot with a rubber spatula. Cover and insulate for 24 hours.
  7. Remove from mold and cut. Allow to cure for 3-6 weeks to harden.

Note:

**If you’d like to use a different set of essential oils, that’s fine. Use around 0.75 ounce of whatever combination that you want.

**If you are using fresh goat’s milk instead of powdered, use 7.7 ounces, but freeze it first to prevent the lye from scalding the milk fat.

Organic Shampoo Bar for All Hair Types

It has non-frizzing ingredients for those with dry or thick hair, but it doesn’t weigh hair down either. It’s cleansing, without stripping hair.

This recipe makes 2lbs or 8 four ounce shampoo bars.

Superfat Content: 5%

Ingredients:

  • 6 ounces olive oil
  • 6 ounces coconut oil
  • 4 ounces apricot kernel oil
  • 4 ounces castor oil
  • 3 ounces shea butter
  • 1 tablespoon dried nettle
  • 7.4 ounces filtered water
  • 3.2 ounces lye
  • 0.25 ounces lemongrass essential oil
  • 0.25 ounces lemon essential oil
  • 0.25 ounces lavender essential oil

Directions:

  1. Combine the olive oil, coconut oil, apricot kernel oil, castor oil, and shea butter in a large steel pot. Heat over medium heat until all oils are melted. Remove from heat and allow to cool to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Prepare 2lb soap mold by lining it if necessary.
  3. Using a face mask, gloves, and goggles, take weighed water outside. Weigh lye into a zip close bag and take it outside. Pour lye into the water and stir until dissolved, being careful not to breathe in the fumes that are given off for 1-2 minutes. Allow to cool to around 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
  4. When both lye water and oils are cooled, pour lye water into oil and blend with a stick blender on and off until it begins to thicken (come to trace).
  5. Add essential oils and nettle and blend well.
  6. Pour into the mold, scraping the sides pf the pot with a rubber spatula. Cover and insulate for 24 hours.
  7. Remove from mold and cut. Allow to cure for 3-6 weeks to harden.

Note:

**If you’d like to use a different set of essential oils, that’s fine. Use around 0.75 ounce of whatever combination that you want.


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Kelly is the author of number one best seller The Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners and Easy Soap Making. She's also written multiple ebooks on herbal remedies and natural bath and body DIYs.Her journey toward better health has inspired her to make things in and around the home from scratch, start a homestead, and become more resourceful when it comes to health and home.She shares her recipes and DIYs here on Simple Life Mom and has a shop where she sells products for those who would rather buy than make (SimpleLifeMom.com/shop).

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  • Esmé Slabbert
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    February 29, 2024 at 5:37 PM

    Thank you for this, I need to share this with my DIL as she will love it.
    I visited you via Homestead Blog Hop 486
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  • Laurie
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    March 7, 2024 at 10:03 PM

    Oh be been seeing more shampoo bars being sold. I’m definitely intrigued!

    I’ve not made soap before but I’m considering.trying out a bar for my dry hair.

    Thanks for the recipes.

    Laurie

  • Jena Tracy
    · Reply

    May 30, 2024 at 9:19 AM

    Thanks for the recipes .
    I have a ???
    Can i use coffee beans infused in castor oil in a recipe ( leave the grounds in )
    Or do I need to strain this and then add additional coffee grounds at the time i normally would add oats or similar ?

    • Kelly
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      May 30, 2024 at 9:48 AM

      Yes you can infuse the oils.
      You may have to heat the castor gently to extract anything. I’m not sure how well coffee does in oils. I’ve never tried, please let me know how it goes.

  • Tony
    · Reply

    June 30, 2024 at 6:02 PM

    Dear Kelly,
    I would like to thank you for all the information that you provide about ingredients and the recipes with steps that are easy to follow. I am going to make some of your recipes for home use as I love the natural ingredients that you use.
    As a pastry chef, I find soap making relaxing and satisfying.
    I am greatfull to you. Tony

    • Kelly
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      July 1, 2024 at 7:35 AM

      I’m so glad I could help!

  • Shirsty A
    · Reply

    October 18, 2024 at 5:00 PM

    I am not usually a believer in “organic” products being superior to others. However, the organic shampoo bars have done wonders for my hair and I am never going back to my old shampoo. Thanks for the idea.

    • Kelly
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      Author
      December 8, 2024 at 1:50 PM

      That’s wonderful!

  • Ash
    · Reply

    December 8, 2024 at 1:56 AM

    For shampoo bar for oily hair type, you didnt use any butter or bees wax. Even if you dont use butter or bees wax does soap get harden ?

    • Kelly
      · Reply

      Author
      December 8, 2024 at 1:50 PM

      Yes, it gets very hard. Beeswax and other ingredients are hydroponic meaning they will trap moisture so I avoid certain ingredients when dealing with greasy hair.

  • Ash
    · Reply

    December 8, 2024 at 1:58 AM

    Could we use same shampoo bars for kids as well or is there any different recipe for kids hair?

    • Kelly
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      December 8, 2024 at 1:51 PM

      These bars are all mild and gentle and can be used on children. The only time I make changes is with certain essential oils or making a shampoo bar for animals.

  • Sarah
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    February 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM

    Hello! I am getting ready to try the one for dry hair. At what point do you use the dried nettle? Do you make a tea with it first and mix it with the lye? I assume so, but I want to make sure. I have marshmellow root on hand which is supposed to also help hair growth and thought about using it this way.

    Thanks!

    • Kelly
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      February 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM

      You can make it as your water/tea for lye water or you can add it directly to your warm oils. You’ll have to get the lumps out but it’s pretty easy.

      • PohLin
        · Reply

        March 9, 2026 at 1:11 AM

        Hi! I just made the shampoo bars for all hair types using your recipe. I put the dried nettle into the battle after I created the trace. Did I do it incorrectly? Am I supposed to filter the dried nettle leaves out first? Now my soaps are with all the nettle leaves in it.

        • Kelly
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          March 10, 2026 at 11:31 AM

          If you’re using whole leaves then yes, you can filter them or use them within the soap as you mentioned. They won’t hurt anything by remaining. I like to use ground dried nettle. It gives a green tint to the soap.

  • Melissa
    · Reply

    March 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM

    Hi! Can I substitute mango butter for shea butter? Thanks so much!

    • Kelly
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      March 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM

      Yes you can. That won’t change the recipe amounts.

  • Anna Briggs
    · Reply

    March 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM

    Hey! I’m about to make the shampoo bar for all hair styles and it shows dried nettle as an ingredient but I don’t see in the instructions at what point it is added. Can you help with this? Thanks!

    • Kelly
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      March 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM

      Anna, add the nettle to your oils and blend so that there aren’t any clumps.

  • Lora
    · Reply

    September 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM

    Hello, I wanted to try these shampoo bars. Do you think it would be possible to use half goats milk and half rice water? Would it be profitable to do this?

    • Kelly
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      Author
      September 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM

      Yes, you can do that for any recipe. Rie water has proteins that would be very conditioning for the shampoo bar. It may brown a little when the lye is added. Especially with the goat’s milk as well. I’d definitely freeze a little or add the goat’s milk directly to the oils and the lye to the rice water if there’s enough.

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