Whidbey Lavender, Nettles & Cedar Dog Shampoo Bar

We made the first dog shampoo bar for our own dogs: Eva Louise Jellybean and Cora Bella "Bugs" Bootzalini. Cora is our fourth beloved Australian Shepherd and our first one to struggle with allergies--both food allergies (chicken and eggs—Arrgh!) and, it seems, seasonal springtime allergies too, so we wanted to see if we could make a shampoo bar that would help her or that at least wouldn't make things worse the way so many other products did. This bar contains that same ingredients that our human shampoo bars have but they've been specially formulated for dogs with local plants known to be loving to most dogs. This one contains 1) lavender because lavender is gentle and soothing for doggie skin, and the scent is relaxing, and known to repel fleas and mosquitoes, 2) local stinging nettles because they're known by herbalists to be good for skin irritations and allergy support and topically safe for dogs, and just a little 3) local western red cedar (windfall branches gathered after storm