Ethique Solid Shampoo & Conditioner

Sunday, March 24th 2019 Beauty, Hair care

ethique solid shampoo pinkalicious and wonderbar conditioner - review by Lena Talks

There’s been a big movement away from single-use plastic in recent years, and one way to do that is through your beauty products. solod Recently they contacted me and offered to send me some of their solid shampoo & conditioner to test out. They have a range of products for different hair types, and to help you decide there’s an interactive questionnaire. My hair is pretty ‘normal’, and I ended up choosing the Pinkalicious shampoo bar and Wonderbar conditioner.

When they arrived, I was surprised to see that the shampoo bar was almost twice the size of the conditioner. I always finish conditioner much faster than I finish shampoo, . I’ll be interested to see whether this happens with these solid products like with liquids. Ethique also gave me an in-shower container that allows water to drain whilst keeping the bars protected from the stream of the shower.

ethique solid shampoo and conditioner shower container review by Lena Talks — Ethique In Shower container has slots to allow water to drain away from the bars

Pinkalicious solid shampoo is made for people with normal hair types, with ingredients such as coconut oil and cocoa butter. Pink grapefruit and vanilla give it a delicious fruity scent. Wonderbar conditioner is the ideal pairing, designed for slightly oily-normal hair. Interestingly it can also be used for shaving or as an in-shower body moisturiser. I haven’t tried doing that but maybe I should!

Using the bar is pretty straightforward, it’s a bit like washing your body with a bar of soap. Ethique’s directions are as follows:

Wet your hair and the bar. Slide the bar from root to tip 3-4 times.
Put the bar down and lather shampoo into hair. It will foam!
Rinse and follow with conditioner if you need to.

ethique pinkalicious solid shampoo and wonderbar conditioner — Ethique solid shampoo and conditioner in the In shower container

I was pleased that it foamed, as I’ve tried other SLS-free products that don’t foam and my hair just never felt fully clean. I know that you don’t NEED that foaming action to clean your hair, maybe it’s psychological, but it just didn’t feel right. My hair looks and feels great when using Ethique, either when blow-drying or air-drying my hair.

Lena Talks after using Ethique solid shampoo and conditioner bars — My hair washed with Ethique products and then air dryed

From an environmental perspective, Ethique are doing great things. The bars come in cardboard boxes which can composted or recycle. They offset their carbon emissions, don’t use any palm oil, and even their offices are zero-waste. So many companies greenwash their products, and act as if they’re environmentally friendly when it’s all just marketing, whereas I truly believe in the ethos behind Ethique.

In terms of pricing, they are a bit more expensive than I’d usually pay for haircare as I’m a supermarket kind of girl most of the time. However, they say one bar lasts as long as 3 bottles of liquid shampoo, and approximately 5 months with regular use. It’s too soon for me to say how long they last but based on that the cost is fairly reasonable.

Pinkalicious shampoo $22 for 110g
Wonderbar conditioner $25 for 60g
Pinkalicious/Wonderbar combo $42 – saving of $5 compared to buying seperately
Aqua In Shower container $20

Ethique also offers a number of other solid products such as body wash, deodorant, and even a dog shampoo! I’m intrigued to try their body scrub, as you all know how much of a quest I’ve been on to avoid plastic microbeads in any of the beauty products that I use.

If you’ve got any questions about what it’s like using these solid haircare products, leave them in the comments section below! Lena xo