FRIENDLY SOAP Lavender Tea Tree Shampoo Bar, 95 GR

So far, so good. Smells wonderful. Stick with it. I have waist length, very thick, naturally wavy hair. Which has been coloured for years although recently I have been using only semi permanent colours. I only wash my hair once or twice a fortnight. First wash. Didn't really get much lather. Felt terrible afterwards. Itchy scalp. Heavy greasy feel to my hair which naturally feels dry normally. Ok. So I have read up on this stuff a bit and realise this is a process. Having used only washing up liquid rinses for months I wanted something which was Sulfate free and less irritating to my scalp which is more sensitive now I am peri menopausal. Second wash. 5 days later. Sooner than I would normally wash but I really really needed to. Lathered up lovely. Even in our ridiculous hard water. Felt wonderful. I rinsed really thoroughly. My hair can take up to 6 hours to dry naturally usually. This time it was a couple of hours. Wonderful. It feels fab! Ok my colour has suffered bit I expected that. It's ok. Will just have to find a way to deal with that. No one promised this would be straightforward and you need to stick with it. I have a feeling this is going to be perfect for me in the long run, subscription here I come! Trial and error for what is right for you. We are all different. I love this stuff now. I hope it works for you too. Can't wait to try their other products. Minimal packaging too! I love the fact there are very few ingredients. I know what they are. There is no trying to disguise stuff under fancy chemical names. No palm rubbish too!

Full disclosure: i wash my hair only once a week so it's a bit of an event and i usually take my sweet time about it. My hair is pretty thick, its never been coloured, it has heat applied to it only after it gets washed and so it's generally pretty good condition. So i appreciate that results for others could be quite different from mine. So first use- the bar smells great, Great lather, just like shampoo which i wasn't expecting - i cut a wee slice off the end of the bar which means the whole bar isn't hanging out in the shower getting gunky and it makes it easier to work into your hair. As soon as the shampoo was rinsed (i always shampoo twice) ... my hair felt that funny, almost waxy way, the way your skin feels if you use a bar soap? It wasn't very nice at all. But I popped it in a towel and left it in there for about half an hour as i usually do and then about a 15 minute air dry before I use the hairdryer. Amazingly the drier it got, the less wierd and waxy it felt. It became beautifully soft, like , it's never felt so soft. Root to tip. And that's just the shampoo on its own, no conditioner or any other product. So very overall very pleased! I've now used it twice with the same results. Will definitely be buying it again, though i think it'll be a while before i run out.

Great item for hair and body. Unfortunately I think they've recently changed one ingredient, so I have now looked into buying an equivalent product with better ingredients.

I wanted to switch from a bottle shampoo to a shampoo bar for a while but had no idea what brand would be best for me. It took me a while to research and finally I decided to go with the friendly soap products. This shampoo bar is vegan, and made of natural ingredients. The price is also good, but the reviews are not always great. I decided to trust them as their soaps look very natural, no funky bright colours. I have been using the bar for almost 2 weeks now. After the first wash my hair felt very waxy, almost wet. Gradually, with every wash, my hair started gaining volume. After a week of using the bar, i went to my hairdresser who was shocked how much volume my hair gained. Two weeks in, my hair still feels a bit waxy but not as much as the beginning. They are visibly changing and becoming to look and feel healthy and strong. I brush them a couple of times a day, as I read this helps in distributing hairs’ natural oils and in getting rid off the waxy feeling. So I am going to stick with this brand. I have never had so much hair as i have now. My hair have volume, I don’t even have to dry it with a brush or use a hear-spry. I used to wash my hair every second day, now my hair is less oily so I can wash it every third day. I really like this product. It’s important to remember that the transition period sometimes can take even few weeks, depending on your hair, so don’t give up. Stick with it and eventually you will see a massive difference. I have straight delicate hair, now I can create natural waves with no extra hair products. Honestly, I am so amazed and happy!

I’ll admit, I raised an eyebrow when this arrived — it looked more like a travel soap than something that could tame my thick, product-heavy hair. But don’t be fooled by its size: this little bar means business. I wash my hair twice a day and use VO5 matt clay daily to style it. Normally I’d need two or three rounds with regular shampoo to get it all out. This bar? One wash and we’re properly clean — no residue, no build-up. It’s also got serious stamina. I get around 80 washes per bar, and at £3.15, that’s just under 4p a wash — proper bang for your buck. The scent is subtle — a fresh hit of lavender and tea tree — and I even use it on my underarm hair and pubes. Let’s be honest, that’s where man odours really like to settle, and this bar sorts them right out without being harsh or overpowering. Bonus points for durability: it doesn’t crack, crumble or turn to mush like other bars. It stays solid right up until the final wash. Didn’t expect much at first, but now I’m a total convert. So it’s not just my hair on top that’s happy. Highly recommend.

I wanted this shampoo to work, big time because of the natural ingredients. However after trying it three times I despaired that anyone could make this product. It lathers well so you feel your getting a good shampoo. But when you rinse it out the hair feels tacky as though you've put wax on it. As wax and water don't mix, its not a nice feeling. When you dry your hair that tacky/ waxy feeling stays. The hair is not shiny but dull and flat. It doesn't feel like my hair but as though it is coated. I was so shocked by the results I telephoned the company. I wanted to know why the shampoo was having this effect. The owner, and its a company of two people had little to say other than 'I don't know', this was his reply to every question. If you are a small company making a supposedly 'friendly soap' surely you should have something more pertinent to say. He told me he would refund me, whilst I was happy to go via Amazon he asked me for my bank account details and told me he would refund me in a few minutes. He further asked me to check my account in an hour to make sure it had gone through. He seemed sincere and I didn't check my account straight away, I waited for my statement. When I got my statement, I'd not received a refund. So I telephoned again and this time spoke to a different person, the first was 'on holiday'. I explained I didn't get the refund and he said Rob would call me back. When I didn't hear anything I called again and gave my bank account details again, assuming it would go through. The following day I got a call saying Rob had credited my paypal account three weeks ago. As I do not have a paypal account, I found this quite remarkable. I also find it odd that he'd ask for bank details, if he was then going to refund an imaginary paypal account. The chap kept saying I'd been refunded to my paypal account. Despite reasonably explaining all that had gone on, he just wouldn't hear what I was saying. He said that if he refunded me they'd have to chase me up because they'd refunded me twice. He seemed either unintelligent or wilfully deceitful. The service proved to be really shocking, first to claim not to know anything about a product; which your marketing would suggest you are soooo proud off. To lie and say you are refunding when you don't. And to take bank details which you could misuse. I don't have confidence in the company or the product. I would not recommend them. I am disappointed by the experience because I wanted to find a natural bar shampoo. There are far better companies out there I am sure.

I had been looking for a shampoo bar to try out, aware that they wouldn't be as effective as regular shampoo, but would be better for the environment so I was ready to give it a go. Firstly, I was pleasantly surprised by the bar. A few rubs on wet hair and I had a mass of foam. Compared to a regular shampoo, the amount of foam produced is excellent. It washes well, smells nice and you only remember it's a bar when you rinse your hair and it has a very soapy feel to it. This isn't a problem at all and after towel drying my hair it felt pretty good. As a man in his late thirties, I rarely use any products in my hair but after using the shampoo bar my hair seemed to have some added volume and felt pretty good. I've been using the bar for nearly two weeks and I'm completely satisfied. Compared to a bottle of regular shampoo (I'm very much a supermarket own brand kind of hair washer) it's very expensive, but there's no denying it's effectiveness and if the claim the bar lasts as long as 3 bottles is correct (I don't doubt this) - it works out to be a fair value. We definitely use too much plastic so little things like this can help, the only gripe I have really is the delivery packaging. The single bar was placed in quite a large box, no plastic was used, only cardboard - but a box half the size would have been more than sufficient. Sure, I can reuse or recycle, but the extra materials surely could have been better utilised elsewhere. For a product that us environmentally friendly, this seemed like a bit of an own goal.

Nice good size.