Q: What's the secret to Oola Shampoo Bars?
A: Our Shampoo bar ingredients! Our bars are made from saponified oils of coconut, olive, sunflower, castor, grapeseed, cocoa and shea butter, sweet almond oil, Vitamin B-5 (DL Panthenol), cruelty free silk amino acid ( this is not an animal product-see below), citric acid, sodium lactate and essential oils. Either goat or coconut milk are also added to some batches for added nourishment. You can go to the Shampoo Bar page for all ingredients and their properties. These bars are incredibly time consuming to create, but well worth the time and the effort.
One of the ‘secrets’ to the silky Oola Body Care Shampoo Bars comes directly from the garden. The oils used in these bars are infused with botanicals including calendula flowers, lavender buds, comfrey, chamomile and burdock roots. These flower petals/buds lend themselves beautifully to hair care, not only in the care of the scalp but the hair shafts as well. The botanicals are dried, activated, and infused in a gentle seeping process. The result is a shampoo bar infused with goodness.
The oils and their individual percentages in the recipe are very important due to the fact that all oils have different absorption rates and some are more or less likely to leave residue. Feedback from customers consitently mentions how easily the shampoo rinses off with no need for any kind of vinegar rinse. It has taken many batches to find the perfect formula of oils, butters, special ingredients and their quantities of petal/buds/root to create our signature recipe but we are very pleased with the results.
Another stand out ingredient used in Oola shampoo bars is silk powder, silk peptide, silk amino acids. All of them contain 18 different amino acids, all come from the cocoon of the silk worm, and all have a chemical composition that is very close to that of human skin and hair making them a wonderful source of nourishment and maintenance. Oola body care only uses cruelty free silk, which means the silk is harvested post-cocoon. Although technically you could consider silk to be an animal by-product, , it can be considered vegan as the silkworms weren’t harmed in the process of collecting the silk. It's a matter of individual conscience.Post-cocoon silk is the silk that forms the worm’s cocoon. The worm spins the silk for its metamorphosis into a moth. The silkworm, very much like a caterpillar, forms a cocoon and climbs into it ready for the transformation to take place. Once it has transformed, it climbs out of the cocoon and leaves it behind, thus abandoning the post-cocoon silk.
*As with all body products you purchase (wherever that may be) it is advisable to test a small amount on a patch of skin to be sure there are no reactions. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease. Always consult with your professional skin care provider for serious skin issues.*