Try This Bar for New Year’s
The start of the New Year is often used as a clean slate for the twelve months ahead. It’s a chance to hit the reset button to correct a bad habit, or to change direction and try something new. Our suggestion is to try this bar – no, not the neighborhood watering hole – this shampoo product in a solid bar form instead of last year’s wasteful plastic bottles!
Shampoo is commonly packaged in plastic bottles that we use and either recycle, where available, or toss in the trashcan after we use up the product inside. According to Future Green, the average American goes through 11 bottles of shampoo each year, resulting in 550 million empty shampoo bottles!
However, shampoo is becoming more available as a solid bar, just like your bath soap. You simply wet your hair, use your hands to create a lather, and apply it to your hair. One standard size shampoo bar (that weighs 3-4 ounces) replaces two to three bottles of liquid shampoo (depending on their size). Yet the cost of a bar of shampoo costs about the same as one bottle of popular brands of liquid shampoo, and lasts two to three times longer.
Furthermore, handmade shampoo bars are created with high-quality, healthy ingredients, are usually packaged responsibly, and they’re travel-friendly, especially if you’re going through TSA requirements to take it onboard a plane, or packing it with your camping gear.
KeithasArtfulGarden sells soaps handmade in Sedalia, Virginia, with delicious-sounding names like Strawberry Fields or Honey Shampoo Bars that cost less than $6.00. Mayra’s Handmade Soap in Richmond offers shampoo bars with herbs and natural ingredients for about the same price.
EcoMania, based in Virginia Beach, sells a drawstring Cotton Soap Bag with one side that has open mesh and the other side has a soft solid fabric. You can collect the end pieces of your favorite bath bars or shampoo bars and keep washing with them until they’re completely gone – zero waste!
And don’t forget about Fido! EcoMania even offers a plastic-free, palm oil-free, and cruelty-free dog shampoo bar!
Hope you’ll check out this shampoo bar this year, and let us know what you think! Happy New Year!
