Simple Diy - How To Make Melt & Pour Shampoo Bars + Wrapping & Labels | Ellen Ruth Soap

Hello and welcome to ellen ruth soap, i'm ellen - and today i am so excited, i'm going to be making shampoo bars and the inspiration was katie over at royalty. Soaps showed this melt-and-pour oops the glare melt and pour shampoo bar base. It'S called cindy poor cinderpoor. It'S a synthetic melted pore base for shampoo bars, and i was so excited when i saw her video. I'M like yes. Finally, because i have been testing for the past gosh more than a year now, different shampoo bar recipes send it bars, which is synthetic. It has different ingredients. I'Ve tried cold process soap for shampoo bars, because i've been asked a lot. Do you have shampoo bars because they're so convenient and there's no waste? You know it. It'S just. I think shampoo bars are a great concept, but i was not having success with my recipes because of people's different water types. If you have soft water or hard water, you can make your hair feel kind of tacky, or, if you have you know, oily hair or dry hair. I just there's so many variables that go into shampoo um. I didn't find anything that i was happy with marketing. So i haven't brought any of those test batches to you all here on youtube, because they all kind of just fell flat, the testing period, the husband, would like it and the girlfriends wouldn't like it. I so anyway. I just kind of, in my mind, relegated into the you know what i just don't do shampoo bars and then i saw katie carson, do a review on this melt and pour base and i'm like that's it. I'M gon na try it so i haven't made any yet we're gon na do this for the first time together, um, i haven't even picked out my fragrances. I want to do a couple of fragrances, a couple of colors because it's melt and pour super easy. Okay, i'm really looking forward to this and then i'll do a lather test at the end, we'll do some different scents different colors we'll do a lather test, we're going to do it all i'm just so excited. Can you tell thank you katie for doing that review? I never would have known this product existed if she hadn't done that so anyway, i'm anxious to get in here and let's give it a try. Let'S make some shampoo bars, okay, we're back and ready to get measuring out our shampoo cinderpoor melt and pour base here. I'M so excited um, so these are the little molds that i'm going to use and they have a lip on them. So it makes like a little 3d puck like a stone. It'S very smooth - and i just love the shape of these. They are a little over two ounces, each plus the two percent of my fragrance for this first batch, i'm going to do strawberry cheesecake, it smells so good and i'll put in just a touch of my fairy tale pink mica to go with the strawberry cheesecake scent And i got a bunch of these molds. I got these on amazon i'll leave a link down below. They are just such a nice little comfortable size. I got them thinking about conditioning bars and i thought well, let's do the shampoo in there too. So conditioning is another video another time i'm still working on that, but yeah. Let'S do two of these, so i'm going to do 22 ounces in here and then that'll bum bump this up to 0.4. So anyway, let's get this measured. Sorry, my scale went off while i was talking. I really love my new scale. If you saw my equipment video, i talked about getting a new scale. I love this scale except it doesn't stay on for a long time, and so when i tear it out it'll, you know it goes dormant after i think a minute or two, and i wish it stayed on a little longer. That'S my only complaint with this scale. Other than that, i really love it. So all right, let's get measuring here, we're going to do 22 ounces, and this is very soft um, and so i looked up, i got my melted pour here from bulk. Apothecary is where i got it and the chemistry store. Also carries it and they had a lot of good information on their website that, although it is soft right now, they say after you melt it and then it hardens it hardens up more than this, because i was thinking gosh. This is really soft, but apparently there is a reaction that will firm it up even more after you've melted it. So i'm thankful for that. Let'S get it in here! So some of the beautiful things about this melted port. I just pulled off the internet here. The description it is a neutral ph, so it's wonderful for hair and scalp, it's a ph of about five or five to six, so that is perfect for hair and scalp uh. It is dermatologically tested, so you know it's safe for skin and all the good stuff. It'S a hundred percent soap free, it's suitable for sensitive skin, they say um, it has a high foaming lather, it's supposed to feel very luxurious and again we'll do the lather test at the end and see if that is true, this is kind of full in here. Maybe i should be doing a smaller container. I bet when this melts it'll fit in there all right. So, let's see it's also. This is a vegan product. If you are a vegan, this is right up your alley and it is biodegradable. So that is really awesome. I love all of those things about this product, so we're almost up to 22 ounces here, a little bit more and it's supposed to have a very you know. Good melting point melt very quickly. I think so i will do this in small bursts in the microwave. If you hate the microwave - and i know a lot of people really hate microwaves, you could definitely do this in a double boiler, but the instructions on the website said microwave. So that's what i'm doing today. So almost up there, let's get a little more. Oh gosh, we're so close, all right, 22 ounces, so i'm going to do a little 30 second bursts get this melted down and then we will add in .4 ounce of fragrance and a little coloring all right. Let me get this melted all right. I just wanted to give you an update. This has been two minutes. Total in 30, second bursts and we're almost melted, and i don't want to overheat it. So i'm going to stir this a little bit and see if those last chunks will go ahead and melt, but uh pretty quick. This is a such a low-tech project, i'm i'm just blown away excited and i'm really hoping that the final product is as good as the website says it is, i'm pretty excited. I think it's going to be great. So after i get these poured, i'm going to let them sit overnight before i unmold just you know why not i'm not going to rush it and then uh. I will actually test it before. I sell this in my shop. I'M going to have this in my shower and test it, but i'll do a lather test with you guys just with my hands, i'm not going to bring you in the shower with me, because you know that's not my style, but almost there it's nice and warm. So i'm going to just let this sort of finish melting here we're coming along. It didn't have any cautions on overheating, but i know with melt and pore soaps: it's not good to overheat them. It can cause you trouble on the other end when they're set up it can cause lead to sweating. Now this product did have a warning. That said, because of the high glycerin content that it can sweat so i'll, be keeping an eye on that also. But you know that's just part of melt and poor life and it's not bad. It doesn't mean anything's wrong with it. It just means there's a lot of good moisture in there. So hey, that's, not a bad thing, all right. It'S all melted and now it's time for our fragrance. Let me get the scale tore out, tear out such a funny word: okay and point four ounces. So a little less than half an ounce of fragrance is going in here, all right, wonderful and then i'm going to add a little color in here. I don't want to add a lot, but i just thought a little color would kind of represent that fragrance because it smells so nice so literally going to just take. This is my baby spoon. This is a very small spoon and i'm just going to take the tip of it, and this is a skin, safe, skin, friendly mica. You want to make sure you have a skin, safe, mica or colorant when you're doing anything, that's going to be on your scalp, because that is skin. So that's just something to watch out for so just a teeny bit and let's see what this gets us so again, the website did say that as it melts it's clear, but when it firms up again it will go back to opaque, which means that you, it's Not clear it's a more solid color, that's what opaque means. I don't think i put enough in there. I'M afraid it won't really show. Let me just keep stirring make sure it's all melted, all right that looks beautiful to me. It'S very light. I think it'll be very light when it cools, but i'm happy with that. I think, isn't that pretty so, let's get these poured now. Theoretically, i should have two two pans full here. We shall see so so so do so all right, i'm back uh to do a lather test. For you. I had a little half bar on the first uh strawberry cheesecake, the first batch i poured. I only did 22 ounces of the melt and pour, and it wasn't quite enough to fill all of them, so i ended up doing 23 and a half ounces for the rest, and that filled my little molds up really well so anyway. Here it is, it smells so good and look how light that color came out. So if you want a darker, color you'd need more mica than i put in there. But oh my word. I'M so excited to try this and i'm going to send it upstairs to the bathroom for my husband and i to try. So i wanted to do a lather test before i bring this upstairs this little half bar for us. So let's give it a whirl here. It does feel very smooth and creamy in your hand, and the lather starts building up immediately wow. I mean right away so that, oh, my goodness, that's a really thick. You can't really see how thick it is, but it makes a layer on my hand like immediately and that's just a couple of turns. In my hand this is a very creamy lather. The website for the sindipour says it's a luxurious lather and i would agree it really is it's a very soft feeling, katie carson described it as a lotion like feel, and it does. It has a nice feel, but it also rinses. Really nice too. It rinses very completely, i think that's great, you might not even need a conditioner with this, but conditioners are another time. This is fabulous, it smells great, so i am going to let the rest of these just wait. Uh we'll come back and unmold, but i wanted to do that lather test. Oh my! This is fun. I cannot wait to use this and i will report back and say how i liked it on my hair, but anyway here's the lather test in water. It lathers very quickly and nice bubbles. I have a feeling this is going to be wonderful on hair and it does feel very gentle on my skin. I don't have sensitive skin, but this just really does feel gentle so anyway, happy with the lather all right. I had some left over of the soap batter, so i made some little travel size bars that i'm going to pack in a tin which will be airline friendly and travel friendly, and then these i'm going to wrap in eco paper i'll show you all of that. When i get there, but isn't this just the cutest, i was thinking about how i'm going to wrap these, and i realized that i wanted to make some in a tin, so aren't those beautiful so cute, i'm loving it. Okay - and i just want to report that i did go up and take a shower and wash my hair - i have wet hair right now and it is wonderful i really enjoyed using my shampoo bar. It was fabulous, it lathered so easily and rinsed really nice. So just the whole experience was a good one. So love love love, so there we go with the little travel size ones, so these are going to be a little over one ounce. These are like three ounces, 2.8 to 3 ounces, but these ones will come in a tin which i think is great for traveling all right. Let'S wrap the little travel size bars in the tins. These are two ounce tins for one and a half ounce bars. That'S what fits and i'm going to use little craft muffin liners to sort of be the padding in there. So here's how i do it it's too shallow right or not too shallow. The circumference is too small right now, so you just put it down and kind of open up the bottom and take your little shampoo bar there center it and then, when you poke it in the tin, it's the right, circumference and then i have my labels here. That i print out these labels are from onlinelabels.com and i use their maestro label designer to design these labels. This is a two inch circle, which is what i'm using today and that fits on the top of these tins really nicely. I think so we'll get that all lit up here and then we'll get the label which has the name of the fragrance the ingredients, the weight. All the essential info is on there and there we go little travel size bar ready to go all right now. It'S time to wrap the bigger bars, the 2.8 to 3 ounce bars - and i have just these - are natural unbleached coffee filters that i think, make a fabulous eco-friendly wrapping option for soaps, round, soap bars, they're, just great and so anyway, and you can smell through them. It'S really nice, so here is how i'm going to put them with the flat side up for the labeling it'll be a little easier, and this is just one inch craft paper tape that help hold it together. The label sticking is enough, but i think this looks pretty so i'm going to add this on there also, because you know looking pretty is good, so you just put this in the middle and i just start to gather the folds and go in a circle and Gather them up like this kind of pleating it as i go and i hold it there you go and now i'm going to take my paper tape, i'm not sure exactly how much i'll need. So i just kind of run it out here. Okay, there circle the paper tape around and get one of my labels and again, these are the two inch labels from onlinelabels.com put this on there and there you go, and i just think that's a really cute way to wrap these and it's all eco-friendly, to go Along with the soap bar, so i got some soaps to wrap you