EthiqueHeali Kiwi - Calming Solid Shampoo Bar for Dry, Itchy, Flaky, and Oily Scalps and Hair - Vegan, Eco-Friendly, Plastic-Free, Cruelty-Free, 3.88 oz (Pack of 1)Compact by Design (Amazon-developed Certification)

I bought the kiwi scented ethique shampoo soap since I travel light and it doesn’t need to be in the quart bag for TSA. It is gentler than the liquid shampoosI have used before and definitely does not dry my scalp as other shampoos did so I am using it regularly. It has no fragrance that I can tell and I am fine with that. It is a chunky bar, a bit smaller than I thought, but enough of a cube-type that it fits easily in your hand and dries solid without dissolving to softness. I know it will last a long time with shampooing every couple days. Thanks for an excellent product!

Why did you pick this product vs others?:My hair responds well to “repair” care even though I don’t use products, color, or heat on my hair. I think the pictures are misleading because these new moon-shaped bars are huge! I have oily hair that smells nice and is soft after using, and doesn’t feel greasy or heavy. I follow-up my wash with the Wonderbar conditioner from Ethique. I actually prefer the blue Hydrating bar for myself but the pink Repair bar works really well for my 6yo who has normal, fine hair. Both of us have fresh clean hair after using either bar and I love that it rinses out so easily to shorten bath/shower time.

The Good:1. This shampoo bar is game changing. After just one wash my hair feels like I cut 4-5 inches off and got a keratin treatment. I can’t rave about it enough! I never used to wear my hair down and for the first time I do and am confident wearing it hair down also lol. This is the healthiest, shiniest, softest and the lightest my hair has ever been! My curl pattern is even restoring! Love love love love love!2. The bar lathers up really fast and easily. It requires minimal product to wash my whole head and my hair is armpit length.3. I’ve paired this bar with the guardian conditioner and I’ve tried the bar with zero conditioner. Both ways have still given me amazing hair lol!4. My partner who was convinced I was wasting money on expensive hippie bar soap with a shampoo label also loves this shampoo/company. He loves how he barley had to use it on his head and it lathers up a ton! We’ve been using the bar for one month and his dandruff has gone away.5. They really are eco! Ethique customer service is very friendly and they will answer all and any of your eco questions. They do a great job of making a product that is not only great for the customer but doesn’t have a negative backlash on the environment! They’re also zero waste!6. They formulate their shampoo/conditioner bars without soap. They do this because your hair needs a different pH then your body. The company itself uses soap but soap is not used in the shampoo and conditioner bars for good reason and it truly shows! This is all around a quality product.8. My hair on day 3-4 did get an oily awkward transitional phase but that only lasted about 4 days.7. I’ve been telling everyone about this companies shampoo/conditioner. Everyone who’s bought this bar after I recommended it has told me that they think it’s game changing also!The Bad:1. Initially I kept skimming past these products because they aren’t organic. I came back to look at this company more in depth after I had asked for recommendations in several zero waste groups im in on Facebook and at least 50% of people recommended ethique. I contacted ethique directly and It turns out most of their ingredients are organic. They put sustainability before organic though and the ingredients that aren’t organic are second best. That being said this is still an issue for a lot of people. I really think they should advertise which ingredients are actually organic and which aren’t and why.2. Most of the negative reviews that I read were about the bars not lasting. $16 just for the shampoo was not going to be a feasible monthly buy for me. I have a corner shelf in my shower that is away from direct water but does not protect the bars from moisture. We’ve been using our bars for a month. (two adults using it every other day to every three days) there’s still plenty of product! I could see how this would be frustrating for someone who doesn’t have a corner shelf, doesn’t want to buy the bar storage containers or anyone that just can’t deal with moving the bar in and out of the shower with every use.3. For whatever reason my hair takes almost twice as long to dry sense I’ve switched to ethique. It may be my hair type but I can see how this could be problematic for others. Especially people with very curly hair. If you are concerned about this I recommend getting their sample pack. $16 for samples that you don’t know if you’ll like or not is a bit much in my opinion. I have seen a lot of amazing reviews from very curly haired people for the sweet and spicy ethique bar. The salt is supposed to be helpful. Since my curl pattern is restoring I do plan on trying that bar next myself.4. If I wanted to really complain on here it would be that I’ve legit worried that if ethique ever goes out of business I’ll never be able to be this happy with my hair/shampoo ever again 😂😂😂😂 I seriously 100% love these bars and recommend them. That being said based on the other reviews I’ve read as well as my own personal experience with this ethique shampoo bar, I can see how some things that I stated above could end up problematic for other people. Realistically though, I think these complaints are very convinced based and for me they aren’t a deal breaker.Pic is my bar after one months use between two adults!

TL;DR: This shampoo works really well, even as someone with thick hair. Smell was a little weird and it doesn't last as long as the company claims, but once you get the hang of it, it's great.Full Review:I decided that I would try to cut some of the disposable plastics out of my life once my city limited what you could recycle, and one of the changes I'd heard about people making was bar shampoo. I decided to try it out, and based on the reviews on here, I decided to try the Frizz Wrangler shampoo, as I have very dry, frizzy, curly hair (Somewhere from 2A-2C, I'm not good at figuring out which one exactly). It has been color treated with a semi-permanent purple color at the ends at the moment, and because of that, I usually only wash/condition twice a week. As far as my impressions of this shampoo:The good:- It cleans my hair. Plain and simple, it does its job as shampoo.- It lathers well. I kind of doubted it would, but once I got the hang of it, it generates a good lather!- A little goes a long way. My sister used to complain all the time that we went through shampoo about 4x faster when I was home because I need so much to get through the built-up oil in my thick hair, but I don't feel like I need to use a ton of this to get it through my hair. I just swipe it over a few parted spots on my scalp, then rub the bar over my hands and massage it into my scalp, and it gets it very clean.- You can feel good about not using plastic bottlesThe bad:- It took me three times longer than usual to shampoo my hair the first time I used this, because I couldn't get the hang of how to get it on my hair. Now that I'm used to it, it doesn't take as much extra time, but it is still more time-consuming than regular liquid shampoos, at least in my opinion.- I've seen no added benefit of this being "Frizz Wrangler" shampoo. My hair is just as dry and frizzy while using this shampoo, but that would have just been an added benefit to me, so I wasn't too upset about it.- The smell is strange, at least to me. It does have a coconut smell, but honestly, there's something else that's just weird (I wish I had a better way to describe it, it's just not good haha). Not exactly a deal breaker, but something to keep in mind. I can't smell it on my hair at all, at least.- Storing the bar can be difficult. I personally bought one of the (admittedly expensive) containers Ethique makes for their bars, and that works well, but without that, I'd have a hard time finding a place to keep this, and I know some people don't want to spend the extra money.- There is no way this bar will be the equivalent of three bottles of shampoo. At most, it would replace two, which is still not bad, for the price, but I don't really think it's fair for them to advertise the way they do.The only other note I have is that I don't think this shampoo is particularly color-safe. I didn't see any more or less fading than I did with normal shampoos, but I definitely noticed dye washing out of my hair when I used it (semi-permanent, so no reason for concern). That's just something people should be aware of when they buy this.All in all, though, I think this is a great, environmentally-conscious shampoo that definitely does its job. There are some issues with it, but cumulatively, it wasn't enough for me to take off more than a star, because all of them were fairly minor things. If you're considering switching to this, I definitely encourage you to do so, at least to give it a try!