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When Dirk Walther talks about bars, it has nothing to do with alcohol. Rather, with a small, fine hair beauty line that he has just started with three shampoo bars. The Munich based hairstylist got the inspiration for this when he spent a break in his favorite little village in Sri Lanka four years ago. Instead the perfect wave, a stinking plastic carpet suddenly piled up behind the passionate surfer, around three hundred meters in radius. “The plastic was piled up about three feet and was drifting towards us. Everything smelled like manure,” Dirk remembers with a shudder. That was an initial spark for him. Especially when he noticed the next day how the plastic mountain, which had meanwhile been set up on the street, was burned. Sustainability and recycling Both was already an issue in Dirk’s family home in the German city of Kulmbach. His mother promoted waste separation early on at the local political level. The father developed machines for his textile company in which dyes for Gore-Tex or Teflon textiles could be reused and no longer had to be derived. Sustainability, as he learned from it, is feasible for everyone. “If everyone contributes something on a small scale, at some point you will have something huge,” that is his credo. Shampoo bar as a lockdown idea „Nevertheless, one shouldn’t look too doggedly“, says Dirk. His approach: Doing good for yourself and the environment, but always with style and fun. And so a little round thing emerged from the encounter with a wave of plastic waste that wants to make the world a little better. C&C-Author Margit Hiebl was one of the first testers and spoke to Dirk Walther about his lockdown baby … We’ll develop a shampoo bar … sounds nice, but isn’t it that simple? Dirk: Well, I’ve already gained a bit of experience in the last 25 years as a creative and consultant for cosmetics companies in the field of product development. Also when I was allowed to develop products with Paul Windle over 10 years ago during my time in London. Even then, it was my idea to be more sustainable. How did you come up with your own products? After the experience with the plastic waste in Sri Lanka, I couldn’t get rid of the idea that something has to be changed. At the same time, I came across the first shampoo bars – but I found that their performance was never really good.… weiterlesen