Review | Lush Shampoo Bar♡

I thought I'd review the Karma Komba shampoo bar from Lush.

 

 

If any of you read my Friday haul post [here], then you will have seen that I went into Lush, and left not only with what I bought, but a sample of a shampoo bar to try (which wasn't sample size, was actually full size), so I thought seen as I was given it to try, I would try it, and share my views with you guys.

 

For any of you that do not know what a shampoo bar is, it is basically a solid bar of shampoo, like a bar of soap but for your hair.

 

Lush's description of their shampoo bars:

"Our naked and natural longlasting solid shampoos don't need to preserve their modesty, or anything else."

 

 

The shampoo bar I got, was the Karma Komba, and I was impressed. First of all, it was free (always a winner), but most of all, the smell! It is absolutely amazing, if any of you have tried the Karma bubble bar then it shares the same scent.

The scents are a mixture of; sweet orange oil, patchouli oil, elemi oil, and pine oil, plus others, and they all work amazingly together.

 

The ingredients:

Sodium Lauryl Sulphate, Sodium Cocoamphoacetate, Perfume, Pachouli Oil, Sweet Orange Oil, Lavendin Oil, Pine Oil, Lemongrass Oil, Elemi Oil, Gardenia Extract, *Citral, *Geraniol, *Citronellol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Colour 42090, Colour 19140 and Roman Chamomile Flowers.

All ingredients are either natural, or safe synthetics, and the ones marked with a * occur naturally in essential oils.

 

I must admit, reading the ingredients, and writing them down now, I don't have a clue what any of them are (and apparently neither does my laptop dictionary), but I trust Lush, and I know they are natural, vegetarian, and against animal testing, an all round a nice company.

 

The packaging:

Well that's the thing about Lush, they are environmentally friendly and don't provide packaging for products such as bath bombs and shampoo bars. Instead they use recycled paper bags, which in my eyes is brilliant - recycled paper that you then recycle, keeps the circle going, unless you don't recycle of course.

It has a rustic feel to it, hand picking your products, and receiving them in a paper bag.

Even the products such as facial sprays and lip scrubs can be recycled, you can take them in store and they will clean and use them again. Some of the empty pots can be swapped for a free product when you take in a certain amount.

 

Using the product:

I must say it was a little bit weird using a solid bar to wash my hair instead of the usual liquid from a bottle, but it was easy. I lathered it up in my hands, waited until I had as much foam as I desired, which didn't take long at all, then massaged into my hair and scalp. The smell was enhanced once it was being lathered into my hair, and it filled my bathroom and onto the landing, a big difference to bottle shampoo.
 

I did find however, with currently having dyed black/blue hair, and using this shampoo bar, that my colour appeared to be washing out (it's a permanent dye), the foam in my hands went a very deep navy blue colour. Now don't get me wrong, when I shampoo my hair with my usual product some mild colour does come out, but with the bar it seemed like it was stripping my colour. 

 

Once it came to washing it out, it was easy, I didn't struggle to wash it out like I have done in the past with other shampoos, I suppose it makes it easier that you lather it up in your hands before applying to hair, unlike traditional shampoos that lather up when you work it into your hair.

 

After I had washed it all out, as with any shampoo, my hair felt a bit plastic, like doll hair, that is because of all the abuse I have given it over the years, including bleach and heat damage, not to mention numerous dyes, but it did feel a lot harsher than usual.
I conditioned as usual then got out the shower.

 

After towel drying my hair, it did feel normal again, soft and not particularly much different to using just my usual products.

It did feel like it had a bit more volume that usual though, especially seen in my fringe (as that dries much quicker).

The morning after:
Well today, my hair is dry (I hardly ever blow dry my hair as it is so thick and curly that I end up with BIG hair - imagine a lion and your there), and if I'm honest, even with conditioning, my hair feels dryer than usual. It does smell amazing though, but the dryness isn't a good thing.
It does have much more volume than usual which would be brilliant for someone with flat hair.

My overall opinion:
I do like this shampoo bar, but I do not think it is for me.
I think it would be much more suitable for someone with natural hair, no dyed or bleached hair, as it is a bit drying and as I said appeared to pull some of my dye out, although it hasn't changed the way my colour looks (it does need re-dying tonight anyway - dark hair, light roots, not good).
The smell is amazing, and lasting, even when I used my usual conditioning products.

Overall I would say to try this if your hair is natural and you would like a bit of a boost in volume.

Have you ever tried this/or any of the Lush shampoo bars?
If so what are your opinions?
Let me know in the comments.

*All opinions in this post, are honest and entirely my own.

LoveTaraBabii♡