I chanced upon a "Patchouli shampoo bar" whilst shopping just the other day. I was pleasantly surprised when it was printed on the box that the product is a "cold process soap". In soap making jargon, this means that it is a handcrafted shampoo bar.:) Furthermore, at a selling price of around S$3 per bar, that made the soap a MUST-BUY and MUST-TRY, right?
NOPE.
The soap was nothing like the shampoo bars I have grown to love. First, the colour. It was a deep shade of tyan/ dark green. I wondered what was used to colour the soap as it was not stated on the packaging. The smell was also not the herbaceous, woody scent associated with patchouli. The most disappointing part was the actual application.
The bar lathered quite well and gave my hair an overall squeaky feel at first use. I did not mind that too much as this can happen when you switch between shampoos. Hence I did my normal vinegar rinse and tried to comb my hair afterwards. That was when I started to have doubts about the shampoo bar. For the first time in a long while, my hair was tangled and knotted! I had a hard time combing through my long hair and was really pained to see all the strands of hair coming away on the comb.:(
Well, everything deserves a second chance right? So, two days later, I tried it again. Guess what? History repeated itself. Naturally, I was upset with the shampoo bar, but well... I only had myself to blame. I believed the advertising on the packaging and should have realised that S$3 is seriously too low a price to pay for good quality handcrafted soap. I guessed the soap probably consisted primarily of coconut oil which is known to be drying.:( Oh well... I am just glad that my hair is alright now and that I have a new bar of hand soap! :P
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