What type of environmental footprint are you creating using commercial soap? What are the chemicals in a commercial bar doing to your skin? These are questions most people don't ask themselves, when they purchase a bar of soap from their local grocery store or department store. So let's answer question #2 first..what chemicals are in a commercial bar of soap? Well, there's...BHT which is a preservative and a common skin irritant, sodium stearate which is an emulsifier and is also used as a stabilizer in most plastics. stearic acid a hardner, coconut acid which is the sodium salt of coconut oil, titanium dioxide which is a whitner used in house paint, sodium isethionate which is a "BIG" word for "detergent", sodium chloride? we all know that is SALT, industrial cleaning products better known as trisodium EDTA (WOW), and let us not forget trisodium etidronate which is a preservative and chemical that's put in commercial soap to prevent soap SCUM. Soap SCUM (Yuk!!). Commercial soap also has this little beauty called sodium dodecylbenzonesylfonate which is a synthetic detergent as well as a skin irritant.By now you're probably saying..Is there more? Yes, there's more. How about sodium tallowate or cow fat, and let us not forget sodium cocoyl isethionate or synthetic detergent. Synthetic?...Yes synthetic...you read correctly.
That was question #2..now, let's answer question #1. What type of environmental footprint are you creating using commercial soap? Ans: You're washing your body with detergent each and everyday. Detergent is only good for one thing...and that's washing your clothes. Detergent strips your skin of natural oils. (that's why people buy expensive lotions to replace the oils).
Detergents are a petroleum based product like kerosene and gasoline. You take a bath every day lathering up thinking you're getting clean. Your skin is absorbing those chemicals..are you feeling sick? Could be your soap. So I guess the next question is this...do you love your skin and want to treat it with care... or do you want to stop putting detergent on your largest organ (your skin), and finally treat it with care and give it the decadence it deserves? Only you can answer that question. I have already told you most of the soap available is not really soap at all, but is detergent. The most common ingredient in conventional bar soap is tallow, beef fat, and lye. Ooh...sounds yummy...beef fat (yuk!!). Well those are the facts, I didn't make them up. If you want a solution to using commercial soap...here it is...glycerin or hand crafted soap. last Friday ·
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