Catteco Shampoo Bar Nettle 100g

The product

Plant oil based shampoo bar. A highly cleansing shampoo with no added fragrances.

Who it’s for

Well suited for oily hair and scalp. Nettle suits fine and oily hair and scalp.

Getting started

When you start using a shampoo bar, give your hair time to get used to a natural shampoo bar containing plant oils. This may take several washes.

Washing tip

The result is even better if you lather your hair twice with a rinse in between, and on the second time let the shampoo sit in your hair while you wash your body, for example, and rinse at the end.

Plant oil bars

These bars are completely natural for washing hair. They contain wonderful pure plant oils – coconut oil, olive oil, castor oil, hemp oil and oat oil. Some of these oils are fluid and dark, others bright in colour and thick. Different plant oils really do give the final product different properties that we can feel in our hair and scalp. In addition to these oils, we use nourishing clays, nettle, seaweed and hair care peat as well as beer in these products.

Hair adjusting

Plant oil based bars are, simply put, soap, and because they are made from nature’s own plant oils it can take an estimated 1-10 washes before the hair and scalp get used to these completely natural bars. At first the hair may feel somewhat sticky, which is simply due to the already porous hair surface meeting the natural plant oils and the oils clinging to those porous spots in the hair. Over time the hair surface smooths out and the hair gets used to these plant oil based bars. So what makes the hair surface more porous in some people, that is, more prone to that sticky feeling? Fundamentally this comes down to inherited hair type and the kinds of substances the hair has been treated with before starting to use natural bars. It is, however, realistic to say that plant oil based bars simply do not suit everyone.

Tip

Getting your hair used to the bars can be sped up considerably by regularly doing an apple cider vinegar rinse on the hair after the actual wash in the early stages. An apple cider vinegar rinse is easy to make yourself with a mixing ratio of 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar per 1 decilitre of water. The rinse closes the hair cuticles and the hair feels smoother after rinsing. This way the plant oils won’t cling so readily to the hair surface in the future. You can always repeat this treatment as needed.