DuJardin Volume & Shine Shampoo Bar Review 2020 | Zero Waste Shampoo Bar
The Top Line:
BUY. We like DuJardin’s Volume and Shine Shampoo Bar a lot.
We’ve tried ByHumankind, Public Goods, and Lush shampoo bars — this is our favorite so far. Reason why we like this the best? This is the only shampoo bar we’ve tried where you don’t absolutely need to do the acidic rinse afterwords.
While this one is sold out, we would be excited about trying one of their other shampoo bars.
The Breakdown:
Cost & Products: Normal-sized shampoo bars are $7.00 on the DuJardin website where shipping is based on weight or $8.00 on Etsy, with free shipping >$35
The store is sold out of the Volume & Shine Bar right now, but they have two other styles which we would love to try.
How ‘Clean’ Is This? As clean as it gets … no plastic and made of 100% natural ingredients
Packaging: No packaging for the soap itself (yay!) — the store packages everything in green, renewable or recyclable materials.
Purchasing & Shipping: We bought ours at the Etsy shop but DuJardin has its own website too.
Coupons: None
Good to Know: Two things: (1) The DuJardin website has more products outside of hair care and soaps available. (2) We reviewed Dujardin’s Utility Soap and we absolutely loved it
What’s Your Impact? US consumes over 550 million bottles of shampoo per year. Just shampoo! But based on our own experience and scouring the internet forums, we think the number is higher than just 2 bottles of shampoo per year.
One bar of shampoo is equivalent to two to three plastic shampoo bottles. So that’s how much plastic each person removes by switching just shampoo.
The Experience
Context: We wash every other day (or longer, if we can get away with it). Shampoos on the shelf are natural/SLS-free. Long length hair that is straight-ish that is conditioned with every wash. Used both liquid conditioner to isolate the effects of bar shampoo and also with the bar for the whole plastic-free experience.
We really liked using DuJardin’s Volume & Shine Solid shampoo (others here)
The package includes a how-to for new solid shampoo users, which highlights that solid shampoos have to be rinsed with an acidic rinse (vinegar or lemon juice diluted in water)
We used it both with and without a homemade rinse
The rinse totally changes the smoothness of the hair shafts, but we have to say that we liked the results of the Volume & Shine bar even without the rinse
The Cost
We assume you use between 2 to 3 shampoo bottles OR 4 ounces of a solid shampoo bar per year. We also assume that each ounce of bar shampoo was created equal. We compared shampoo bars like buHumankind, Lush and Chagrin Valley in addition to traditional drugstore brands like TRESemme and Pantene. Pureology is a liquid, SLS-free (and very expensive) option.
Money Report: The DuJardin Shampoo bar is one of the cheapest options, even when comparing to the drugstore brands.
The Good:
✔ No chemicals, SLS-free shampoo bar
✔ Moisturizing even without acidic rinse (but with a rinse is better)
✔ Subtle scent, which we didn’t mind
✔ Zero waste, no plastic whatsoever
The Bad:
✗ None really
Our Recommendation:
BUY. We like DuJardin’s Volume and Shine Shampoo Bar a lot. While this one is sold out, we would be excited about trying one of their other shampoo bars.
We're on a mission to reduce our personal carbon footprint with small, hopefully easy, changes in our home to fight against climate change. This means we're looking for products that may be all natural, ideally zero waste, reusable or compostable -- while still being affordable!
