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One of the latest trends in hair care is shampoo bars to replace traditional bottles. Bars offer a number of benefits over bottles including reduced waste, a greater value, and more convenient storage/portability.
Many of us are set in our ways after a lifetime of reaching for (and occasionally dropping) those bottles of shampoo and conditioner. The question then becomes, are we clinging to bottles because they are a better product or simply because that is the way we have always done it?
With this in mind, let’s look at the benefits and drawbacks of shampoo bars vs. shampoo bottles and see which might be best for you!
There is one indisputable benefit to shampoo bars which can never be matched by bottles: shampoo bars require less packaging and have a smaller environmental impact.
National Geographic recommends ditching your shampoo bottle for a bar in a recent guide. Whereas shampoo bottles require a fair amount of plastic for their packaging, shampoo bars are frequently packaged plastic-free.
Many shampoo bars use only recycled paper packaging which is both reusable and biodegradable. The plastic waste crisis is sadly a very real thing. Shampoo bars are one small way to help reduce plastic waste in your everyday life.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is everyone’s favorite government institution. Wait, no -- I think we may have misspoken. The TSA guidelines for liquid products such as shampoo are so strict that there is an entire industry with the sole purpose of selling tiny shampoo bottles and other toiletries!
Shampoo bars do not fall under such scrutiny when traveling as they are not liquids. This makes shampoo bars ideal for traveling. You will not have to determine whether or not your liquids are above the threshold of 3.4 liquid ounces.
Bars are also very hardy and you will not be running the risk of shampoo spilling and leaking onto that brand new outfit!
Approximately 80 percent of traditional shampoo is comprised of water. That’s right -- the product we all have been using for decades is only 1/5th active ingredients. To be clear, this isn’t some nefarious scheme. Bottled shampoo requires high water content to achieve its desired consistency and get a good lather.
Shampoo bars take water out of the equation and let you provide that yourself. This creates a product which lasts far longer without the filler. Shampoo bars are generally comprised exclusively of oils and active hair care ingredients.
Consider paint. Most paints are either water or oil based and come in a tube. These run out quickly because they are used exactly as they are. Watercolors, however, use only a very small amount of dry paint to last a very long time!
Shampoo bars are made in a very similar fashion to traditional soap bars. There are mass produced soap bars and small batch manufactured soap bars. Consider choosing a shampoo bar manufactured using cold press, hand made methods which are produced in small batches.
Absolutely! Shampoo bars have very sustainable packaging when compared to other hair care products. Additionally, it is entirely possible for shampoo bars to be made from 100% sustainable ingredients.
Traditional shampoos do offer one advantage over shampoo bars: it is what most or our hair is used to. Shampoo bar usage does entail a short acclimation period where hair may feel heavy, greasy, or dull. This will quickly pass!
As we talk about in this post, traditional shampoos strip away natural oils which causes your body to overreact. The acclimation period is caused by your hair regulating its healthy production of natural oils.
Each individual will react differently, but we believe that shampoo bars are better in the long run. They are natural, plastic-free, sustainable, offer a great value, and they are extremely effective as a hair care product!
The Yellow Bird was started in 2015 with a simple goal: provide all-natural, chemical free products to nourish skin and promote overall health. What started as a single product business has blossomed into a thriving small business with products including artisan soaps, bath bombs, face oils, insect repellents, and more!
Our shampoo bars offer the sustainability of plastic free packaging with the effectiveness of traditional shampoo products. We are proud to make all of our soap and shampoo bars the old fashioned way: cold processed, by hand, and only in small batches. If you’re ready to take the plunge, check out the different variations we have or check out this page if you are not sure which bar is right for your hair.
To learn more about The Yellow Bird, explore our about us page or take the skincare quiz today!
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Every time I stay in a hotel (and nowadays, with all the travel I’m doing to promote my book, I’m getting to visit more and more of them), I inevitably roll my eyes at the preponderance of single-sized, plastic-packaged amenities: little bottles of shampoo, conditioner, lotion, and single-sized soaps. Sure, many guests love them and stuff them in their luggage to take home, but does that justify their wasteful existence? I’ve blogged many times before about saying no to single sizes, which have a higher ratio of plastic packaging to product than larger sizes, and now an Albuquerque luxury hotel is promoting the same message by providing a better alternative: bulk amenities.
But let me back up a bit because offering personal care products to guests is not a new idea. The showers at my gym have dispensers for body wash/shampoo afixed to the wall, as do all of the hostels I have stayed in during my travels. The problem for hotels that cater to a more upscale class of traveler is that this doesn’t look so great:
I can advocate switching to bulk products until I’m blue in the face, but as one hotel manager explained to me a while back, guests don’t want to spend big bucks on a luxury room and then feel like they’re showering at the gym or at a hostel. You or I might not mind, but this message won’t get too far if we can’t convince the mainstream.
Back in 2010, I stayed at the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, California, while in town for the TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch conference and was pleasantly surprised to find larger sized bottles of shampoo and conditioner in the shower.
However, I did wonder how the hotel kept guests from packing them up in their luggage to take home. And sadly, the rest of the amenities in the room were still single-sized.
So last month, when I received an email press release from luxury Hotel Andaluz touting all the eco-friendly steps it had taken, I was particularly interested to notice at the bottom of a long list of environmental initiatives that included energy efficiency, sustainable materials, rainwater capture, and composting, there was a statement that all guest amenities come in refillable, fixed dispenser bottles. Well, I thought, that’s a shift. So I arranged to speak with the general manager, Howard Jacobs, to find out how the hotel managed to provide personal care products in bulk and still maintain its high end aesthetic.
Howard explained that after doing so much work to create a LEED certified building, they wanted to find more ways to sustain that model and noticed that they were discarding thousands of pounds of wasted product per year from the single-sized containers. Sure, they can be recycled. And unopened ones can be donated. But a less wasteful system would be to eliminate the single-sized containers in the first place. So they searched for a high quality brand of personal care products that could be purchased in bulk and mounted the bottles to the bathroom walls in such a way that they can’t easily be removed.
The brand they settled on is Molton Brown. The ingredients of Molton Brown products are not listed on the website, but you can call or email customer service for that information. The point that interests me here is not so much the product but the means of dispensing it. It’s clear from images I captured from the Hotel Andaluz website that the atmosphere of the guest bathrooms is not degraded in any way by the existence of bulk hair wash, conditioner, shower gel, lotion, and soap.
The bottles mounted to the wall each hold 10 oz of product, but they are refilled from 5 liter containers. The wall mount hardware was put in previously by Pacific Products and ensures the bottles cannot be removed without a wrench. Of course, the bottles and containers are plastic, and plastic-free bulk containers would be an even better solution. (If they’re mounted to the wall and can’t break, why not make them out of glass?), but one step at a time, right?
Of course, if you’re in Albuquerque and want to stay in a luxurious green hotel, you can support Hotel Andaluz’s efforts. But I didn’t write this post to advertise for that hotel, and I have received nothing from the hotel in exchange. (Although I have to say, if I get to come to Albuquerque to promote my book at some point, I would love to stay there. Hint. Hint.) No, my main point is that this is a great example that other hotels could follow.
The next time you stay in a hotel that provides single-use plastic containers of personal care products, let the management know that you would prefer less wasteful, less plastic bulk products. And then, you can point them to Hotel Andaluz as an example of how such a system can reduce waste without losing elegance.
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