How stuff is made

These little guys do not require plastic packaging and are totally naked.

The bar was named after the famed naked protest of Lady Godiva. The story goes, that an English noblewoman rode unclothed through the streets of England to protest against unfair taxes.

Legend has it that the only thing covering her lady bits during her ride was her long luscious hair.

The first step to making these shampoo bars, is to make an extract from hibiscus flowers and olive oil. The dried hibiscus flowers are wrapped in a cheese cloth and left to steep inside a pot with olive oil.

While the extract is steeping, ingredients that will make up the conditioner in the shampoo bars are combined into a pot.

All ingredients are then melted down with the hibiscus extract until it forms a thick orange substance.

The orange mixture is taken off the stove, cooled, and poured into a tray to be taken to the cooling room to harden. After being cooled, the mixture is cut into tiny squares.

The shampoo portion of the bar contains whole dried jasmine flowers, gardenia extract, and a mixture of essential oils.

Sodium lauryl sulfate is a safe surfactant that produces the rich lather that you use to clean your hair.

In the mixing room, the sulfates, gardenia extract, and essential oils are poured into a large mixer. The gardenia extract is what makes the mixture yellow.

After these shampoo ingredients are fully mixed, the chunks of conditioner are added and combined. The whole dried jasmine flowers are added last so they don't break during the mixing process.

The final mix is taken to be pressed into bars.

Although they may look small, these bars last up to eighty washes, the equivalent of two to three 8 oz bottles.

Once the bars are all pressed, they are packaged and sent to your local Lush store.