(uptempo instrumental music)
- Hey, my name is Sasha.
Today we'll be making
fairly-traded honey shampoo.
Arnel will be compounding it for us.
Fairly-traded honey is a
fully self-preserved product.
It's made up of over
50% pure Zambian honey.
We use honey because
it's a natural humectant,
and it helps you retain
moisture in your hair.
First thing Arnel's going to do
is he's going to start making
the infusion with the flax.
First going to make a
teabag out cheesecloth.
Then he's going to fill it with flax seed.
And then float that in just some water
to cook for a while.
The next thing Arnel's going
to do is he's going to empty
a whole lot of buckets
of fairly-traded honey
into our barrels just to get it prepared.
Over 505 of the product
is actually Zambian honey,
so it is a very thick product.
- When you use it, makes
your hair more shiny.
- What we do after we
finish pouring the honey
and the infusion is done
is we actually press out the tea bag
to ensure we're getting the
maximum amount of nutrients
out of the flax seed.
Then what we do is we
combine them slowly together.
And then we begin to add our fragrances.
So that would be the beeswax absolute,
the geranium, the neroli.
To ensure that the product
is thoroughly incorporated
and everything's worked through,
Arnel's going to use our emulsifiers
to really, really blend it up.
(machine whirring)
Otherwise the product would be very thick.
It is a lot of honey.
Then once it's emulsified,
it's allowed to cool down,
it's taken over to a filling stations.
It is a very thick product.
It's very viscous so it's a slow fill.
They definitely have to
be careful to make sure
they don't incorporate too
much air into the product.
That's how we make
Fairly-Traded Honey Shampoo.
