Shampoo Bar

Give your hair care an eco-boost! Package-free, travel-friendly, and all-natural, our signature shampoo bar is one of our all-time faves. With three different formulas designed to suit all hair types, we think it'll be one of your faves, too.

Please note that all of our soaps are made by hand and therefore may differ slightly from those pictured.

Pairs perfectly with our unpackaged conditioner bar for a full zero waste hair care routine.

Ingredients

All Hair Types: Saponified Oils of Coconut, Olive, Castor, Argan; Shea Butter; Coconut Milk; Alkanet; Bentonite Clay; Essential Oil Blend for scent

Fine Hair: Saponified Oils of Olive, Shea, Castor; Buckthorn Extract; Kaolin Clay; Aritha Powder; Essential Oil Blend for scent and Indigo Powder for coloring

Curly Hair: Saponified Oils of Shea, Jojoba, Argan, Castor; Kaolin Clay; Yellow Clay; Ginseng Extract; Essential Oil Blend for scent

To Use

Lather the bar in your hands, and use your hands to massage the soap into your hair. Or, lather the bar directly onto your hair.

Packaging + End of Life

This shampoo bar will either be completely naked, or wrapped in reused kraft paper, which can be home composted.

Origin

Handmade right here in Tacoma, Washington.

Ethical Guarantees

Cruelty-Free
Give-Back Program
Made in the USA
Palm Oil Free
Vegan
Washington Local
Woman-Owned

🌎 You care about the planet. So do we.

Look. I get it. It’s HARD to be an EcoWarrior. Someone who cares about the planet and wants the most sustainable products available - from the ingredients to the packaging to the way that product gets to your hands.

It seems like everywhere we turn, someone, somewhere, is greenwashing us.

But our superpower at A Drop in the Ocean is sorting through the BS, calling it out, and making sure our products are the absolute most sustainable and truly zero waste products we can find.

So on top of all the things we mentioned above about what makes our solid shampoo bars so sustainable, here’s a few other things you should know:

• We’re actually practicing what we preach behind the scenes. Each year, we track and record all of our trash, and even wrote a whole blog post on it. The tl;dr version is this: on average, we produce less than 0.5 pounds of trash each month. Everything from the packaging our products come in down to the Sharpie we use to write “Fragile” on your box is zero waste to its core.

• We’re an online-only zero waste store - which is highly intentional. It may seem counter-intuitive, but online shopping is actually more sustainable than in-person. I’m a data nerd at heart and I love diving into the research, and there are countless studies that have shown that online shopping is the most sustainable way to get your everyday essentials. Don’t believe me? Check out our whole blog post on the sustainability of online shopping.

• We ship ugly boxes. Your order from A Drop in the Ocean is not going to arrive in a pretty, branded box. It’s gonna show up in a reused tea box, or a donated Amazon box, or maybe even an inside-out Girl Scout Cookies box. All of our shipping materials are always 100% plastic-free and reused as much as possible, with curbside-recyclable paper tape and a post-consumer recycled paper shipping label. It won’t be pretty, but it will be zero waste.

Got more questions about our zero waste products or our practices behind the scenes? Just send us an email! I’m always happy to chat all things eco.