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Wash with a shampoo bar

Build a modest lather from a solid shampoo bar, keep the cleansing work at the scalp, rinse thoroughly, and leave the bar to dry.

Finger pads work hand-built shampoo-bar lather over the scalp while the bar rests on a draining dish.

Step by step

  1. Wet hands hold a plain solid shampoo bar beside fully wet hair at a basin.
    STEP 1 OF 3

    Wet hair and the bar

    • Wet the scalp and hair completely with comfortably warm water.
    • Wet the shampoo bar, then move out of the water stream.
    • Choose the label-approved method: lather between wet palms or make a few light passes over reachable scalp areas.

    Use a basin you can lean over comfortably. Pour clean water with a cup or use a handheld sprayer; keep one hand free to open or support the hair. Put the cup, sprayer or bottle down before using both hands.

  2. Finger pads work hand-built shampoo-bar lather over the scalp while the bar rests on a draining dish.
    STEP 2 OF 3

    Work lather over the scalp

    • Set the bar down on a draining dish before using both hands.
    • Massage the lather over the front, sides, crown and nape with finger pads.
    • Keep lengths hanging; if the bar catches or pulls, stop direct contact and use hand-built lather.
  3. Both hands rinse lather from the hair while the cleaned bar air-dries on its dish.
    STEP 3 OF 3

    Rinse and dry the bar

    • Rinse the scalp thoroughly and let water carry lather down the lengths.
    • Continue until no visible suds remain.
    • Rinse the bar briefly and leave it on a draining dish away from standing water.

About 4–7 min hands-on for wetting hair and bar, making and distributing lather, rinsing and putting the bar to drain. Add any label wait, bar drying and subsequent conditioning or hair drying.

Practical editorial estimate, not measured. Making lather adds a little time to one ordinary shampoo; density and water flow change rinsing time.

You’re done when…

No visible suds remain, the hair was not pulled by the bar, and the rinsed bar is draining safely.