I picked that one! I went with the purple brightening conditioner, but I’m glad to know the Healy kiwi shampoo is good 
I got one of their storage boxes, too. I love that they’re not made of plastic either!
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I have the face scrub and body wash on a sort of built-in soap dish, and I bought one of the Ethique shower containers for my shampoo and conditioner.
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Not HaH but… I have a little ceramic dish that I keep them on. I take it into the shower with me, and then drain the water into the sink after my shower so they can dry off between uses.
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That’s what I do - I have cheap little porcelain prep bowls for my bar soap and shampoo that are easy to drain and keep clean.
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So far I’m really liking the shampoo and conditioner, and the little storage box They also sent me a gift-sized kid’s shampoo bar, so I’m using that on our 18 month old, and it’s super sudsy and awesome!
Now that I have a whole month of spontaneous money to use up in my budget, I might expand to some other things from them. I already have a locally-made face wash bar, but they have so many options!
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Earlier this week I had a dream that I was shopping for plastic-free dish liquid. Any product recommendations? US based. Liquid hand soap (for the kitchen only) and liquid dish soap are two key things that we are still buying in plastic cartons, and two things where “reduction,” my usual strategy, doesn’t really work.
I mean, I can wash my hair less often to save on shampoo, but I can’t, like, not wash the dishes!
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Do you have any natural food/co-op type stores nearby? Some of our bigger regular grocery stores here have bulk liquid soap and cleaners, and all the co-ops do. I’ve also bought the big refill sizes of different brands at Target before, so there’s less waste than individually sized products, but those are still packaged in plastic. I’m also lazy and filled my kitchen hand soap dispenser with diluted dish soap and the kids never noticed 
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Cleancult has a tetra-pak dish soap that I’ve been meaning to try out when my current stash runs out. Blueland has a powder that might take some getting used to but I do like their other cleaning tablets.
Like @katscratch, dish soap is also often our kitchen hand soap.
@biblioferoz I’d love to hear your review of whatever you end up trying!
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(and @BiblioFeroz) I’ve been using cleancult for a couple of months now - laundry tablets, dishwasher tablets, dish soap, and hand soap lol. The hand soap and dish soap are a little thicker than I’m used to with commercial products, but they seem to work very well! (The laundry and dishwasher tablets seem to work very well too). I just make sure not to get a huge dollop each time. They currently only have one hand soap scent - it’s a nice scent (and not particularly strong), but maybe eventually they’ll add more.
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I used to dogsit for people who had a solid dish soap bar. It worked pretty well! The one they used came with a brush to get the soap all sudsy and scrub with. There seem to be a few options on Earth Hero, although kind of $$$
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The Seventh Generation soap I’m currently using is also thick. It was clogging up my refillable bottle until I realized I could just dilute it with water (which I find also helps it disperse better for washing).
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I love solid dishwashing soap (Ethique flash bar) and bar soap, but bulk shops have dishwashing liquid and Castile soap in bulk too.
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I think I need a practical demonstration of how to use the solid soap for dishwashing. Do I swish it in the water or use it on my sponge?
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I think this depends on how you wash dishes… Do you like to have a tub of sudsy water? Or mostly non sudsy water but a sudsy sponge?
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Mr H CANNOT get the hang of it, so I’m getting good at practical demonstrations 
I use it on my dishcloth and apply directly to the dishes; done like this it is way more effective at cutting grease than any liquid dishwash I’ve used. You do need to rinse properly to get it off, obviously.
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We’ve also never had luck with bar dish soap, husband hates it! I might try the ethique brand and if that doesn’t meet his standards, maybe we just stick with what we use currently (earthchoice at the moment).
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Alright, everyone’s coming to my house to watch me wash dishes.
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So I tried a shampoo bar…salt spring soap works. My hair felt very waxy after. I should rephrase, my natural hair felt fine, my bleached hair felt yucky. Based on research I should try an apple cider rinse after. Any experience with this the guidance can be provided? I also read I need to give it a few weeks.
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In my experience if your hair and scalp are accustomed to commercial shampoo ingredients it does take a while for your skin to acclimate and for oil production to adjust.
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I have to use an apple cider vinegar rinse with bar shampoo (pending how this Ethique conditioner bar works out) or else my hair gets a lot of buildup. I only need to do it every other shower or so.
I use about 20% ACV to water. I think some people do it up to half ACV, but that’s a bit much for me. I just keep an 8 oz jam jar and ACV in my shower or the bathroom closet and dump in however much I want, then add water while the shower warms up. My hair is in a pixie cut, so you might want more volume. After you rinse out your shampoo, just slowly rinse your hair again with the ACV mix, making sure to work it in well, let it sit for a bit, then rinse it out.
@katscratch is right, though, it does take a little while to adjust, just like if you moved from washing your hair every day to every 3 or 4 days.
Also make sure you don’t get it in your eyes!
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