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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by kstenerud on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:56AM (#20390880)
My guess would be that my skin was used to having all its natural oils washed off regularly, and had compensated by overproducing oil. Once I stopped washing the natural oils off, it took awhile for it to readjust.
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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by icebraining on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:04AM (#20390931)
That makes sense, but I'm wondering how it does that.
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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by natex on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:13PM (#20393316)
How would skin know that it should overproduce oil? Does skin know if it's not oily enough?
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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by stronglikedan on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:22PM (#20393441)
It's an organ, so, like other organs, it probably knows what it has to do to do its organly work.
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Re:The forgotten joy of soap by novok on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:08PM (#20394077)
Skin notices it feels dry due to oil being stripped by soap, creates more oil to compensate.
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