GrowSoap
Vegan Shampoo for Whole-Body Strength, Softness & Regenerative Healing
$10.00
GrowSoap is a 100% vegan shampoo bar made with edible ingredients that deeply nourishes your hair and scalp. Crafted from organic plantain ash, cocoa pod ash, palm oil, and spring water, this whole‑food ash bar delivers mineral‑rich nutrients that penetrate the hair shaft, detoxify buildup, and restore your natural moisture balance.
With its tropical coconut scent, GrowSoap gently cleanses while feeding your hair essential whole‑food minerals leaving it softer, stronger, and visibly healthier. Safe for all hair types, even babies, it helps soothe dryness, relieve eczema and dandruff, calm scalp irritation, and support natural regrowth.
Raw Vegan Multi-Use Shampoo Bar
Relief for a dry, irritated scalp and hair weighed down by build, GrowSoap is a whole-food shampoo bar made with organic plantain skin ash, cocoa pod ash, palm oil, and spring water, gentle, mild and raw vegan for sensitive hair and skin.
How to Use:
Cut the bar into small pieces before use, keeping only what you need out at a time.Rinse hair thoroughly with warm water. Scrub GrowSoap lather into hair and scalp, then rinse, repeat 3 times after your GrowOil treatment to remove excess oil and dirt. Follow with HairShake Conditioner (included ingredient card) after each wash or as needed. Detangle with GrowMist and moisturize with GrowOil if needed, for a complete routine.
Refrigerate after opening.
Contains seed oils.
GrowSoap: The Science Behind the Bar
From the Bench to the Bar: Why Every Ingredient Earns Its Place
At Edible Cosmetics Co., GrowSoap starts with a plant that carries one of the deepest Indigenous histories in the world.
Cacao: A Sacred Plant, Thousands of Years Before Chocolate
Cacao didn't begin as an ingredient, over 5,000 years ago in the Upper Amazon, cacao was cultivated and revered by Indigenous peoples across South America and Mesoamerica. the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec civilizations held it as a spiritual plant, generations before it ever reached the rest of the world. It's true roots remain Indigenous American.
That same plant, its pod burned down to ash, becomes something else entirely in GrowSoap: a real, functional source of alkalinity. Published research measuring plantain and cacao pod ash extracts confirms they reach a pH strong enough, as high as 13.6, to drive genuine saponification, the chemical reaction that turns oil into soap.
The Chemistry: Real Alkalinity, Not Symbolism
Burning plant matter produces ash containing real potassium and sodium oxides. Dissolved in water, these convert into potassium hydroxide, or potash, the actual compound responsible for saponification. This ash-based method of soap-making predates synthetic detergents by centuries, and research confirms no synthetic surfactants are used in soap made this traditional way. The ash itself does the cleansing work. This distinction matters for real health reasons: sodium lauryl sulfate, the synthetic surfactant found in most commercial soaps, is documented in clinical research to increase transepidermal water loss, disrupt the skin's protective lipid barrier, and shift the skin's microbiome toward more harmful bacteria and away from protective ones. A cleanser that strips the skin this way leaves it more vulnerable, not cleaner which is why nourishing the skin during cleansing with GrowSoap isn't just a nice idea, it's what the research actually shows is better.
Plantain: One of Humanity's Crops
Plantain's story begins even earlier, in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Archaeological evidence from Kuk Swamp shows Indigenous peoples there cultivated plantain as far back as 8,000 BCE, planted alongside taro and yam in some of the first managed gardens in human history. From New Guinea, it spread across the Pacific through Indigenous seafaring peoples long before reaching any other continent. That same plant is nutritionally dense by design, peer-reviewed analysis confirms plantain is rich in vitamin C, folate, iron, magnesium, potassium, and provitamin A carotenoids, along with resistant starches that function as natural prebiotics. Burned into ash for GrowSoap, plantain contributes its concentrated mineral content, potassium and magnesium, as the source of alkalinity that drives real saponification, the chemical reaction turning oil into soap.
Palm Oil: Nutrient-Dense by the Numbers
Palm oil brings real, measurable nutrition into this bar. Peer-reviewed analysis confirms crude palm oil contains total carotenoids in the range of 500-700 mg/kg and tocotrienols a form of vitamin E at 200-400 mg/kg, with documented antioxidant activity. A separate peer-reviewed nutrition journal review confirms palm oil's broader phytonutrient profile, including tocotrienols, tocopherols, carotenoids, and phytosterols, with real, documented antioxidant and skin-nutrition properties.
Most of this research centers on palm oil's nutritional profile and dietary benefits. Direct clinical research on topical, skin-applied palm oil specifically is thinner by comparison, a real gap in the science worth naming rather than glossing over.
Spring Water: The Foundation
Spring water brings the formula together, carrying trace minerals like calcium, magnesium, and potassium that support hydration.
The facts: GrowSoap is built on a plant with real Indigenous American roots, transformed through real, documented chemistry into something that still works exactly the way it was designed to, generations later. That's the standard Edible Cosmetics Co. holds every formula to.