The forgotten joy of soap

Re:The forgotten joy of soap by duncanawoods on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:53AM (#20390262)

You are right, no soap. It calls itself a "beauty bar" hah! I use it and it certainly doesn't cause the astringent and drying effect I get from real soap.

I tried to find out whether it was actually recommended for the skin and it's an ungoogleable topic infested by a toxic combination of beauty product snake-oil and "chemicals are evil" antivaxish insanity so I'm none the wiser.

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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by okcando on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:56AM (#20392386)

Dove beauty bars contain soap.

The ingredients list sodium tallowate or sodium palmitate, which are soaps from animal or vegetable fat, respectively.

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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by duncanawoods on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:46PM (#20393765)

Thanks, yep. They are not the primary ingredients which is probably why they can't call it a soap bar.

Interestingly, the "Palm" in Napalm is also Sodium Palmitate.

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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by benj111 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:24PM (#20396772)

But "Dove doesn't dry your skin like soap can" (uk advertising tagline) which would suggest it isn't soap.

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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by duncanawoods on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:38PM (#20396922)

A theseus ship type issue. As okcando says - it contains fatty acid salts which are what we call soap. However, lots of things contain these without becoming soap e.g. cheese and napalm so... yeah.

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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by benj111 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:00PM (#20397102)

charred crusty (but still beautiful) woman turns to face the camera

"Napalm doesn't dry you skin like soap can"

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