HELP!!! I desperately need to figure out a way to make shampoo bars using melt and pour soap base (I just don't have the means right now to buy equip and learn how to do colp process soaps). Here is the recipe I used Originally Posted by cottoncandy Here is the recipe that I used: 1 lb. opaque melt and pour base 1 tsp. almond oil 4 tsp. shea butter 1 1/2 tsp. castor oil 1 oz. beeswax 1 1/2 oz. cocoa butter fragrance oil, colorant, if desired Hi! My suggestion is that you cut down on the cocoa butter to 1 oz at first. In my mp, I use up to @1.5 added oz of butters/oils in total. You might want to cut your beeswax down to 1/2 oz also. As for your lather, if the above doesn't work, I add a tsp or so of SLSA to my soaps for lather. I added 1/4 tsp of coconut oil. I took the advice to cut down on the cocoa butter to 1 oz and the beeswax to 1/2 oz. I did add the SLSA. When I used the bar the day after I made it-it left my hair with a weird sticky film that I could not shampoo out of my hair! I do have hard water that is treated with softener salt. I have used it now for 4 days straight and it keeps getting worse! Where did I go wrong? Any advice is appreciated. I have several clients that are getting ready to depart on a mission trip and desperately want a shampoo bar to bring along..... THANKS!!