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The dirty truth about your soap!
Is your soap making you
look old?
Would you ever consider taking a bath in detergent? Or,
boiled cow fat?
Of course not! But, did you know that these are common
ingredients in the leading beauty bars and soaps?
Why? First, these ingredients are ultra cheap, and second,
if you don't know the difference you can't really complain!
Before you take one more bath with a commericial store
bought soap, look at the packaging.
You'll find a convoluted recipe of words which you
automatically assume refer to normal household ingredients,
but turns out most of those items are dangerous to skin
health and may even dry your skin out even more.
Here's a quick break down of the ingredients you'll find in
one very popular, heavily advertised soap:
Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate (synthetic detergent), Stearic
Acid (fatty acid), Sodium Tallowate (rendered beef fat),
Sodium Isethionate (synthetic detergent), Sodium Stearate
(detergent), Cocamidopropyl Betaine (synthetic detergent),
Titanium Dioxide (cosmetic whitener), Trisodium Etidronate
(preservative), BHT (preservative), Disodium Cocamido Mea
Sulfosuccinate (synthetic detergent), Cetyl Alcohol,
Any of these ingredients can dry out skin. Dry skin looks
old and drab! And, wrinkles more easily. Some of these
ingredients have even been linked to known health problems.
Thankfully, there is another option.
Hand-made soaps are made in small batches from the finest
oils and butters to pamper your skin with gentle goodness.
Each recipe is carefully blended by a skilled crafts-person
to offer you a long lasting soap with wonderful lather that
conditions and nourishes your skin. The naturally produced
glycerin insures that your skin will feel soft and
moisturized.
While most commercial soaps are a combination of harsh
surfactants, detergents and chemicals that strip your skin
of essential body moisture, leaving your skin feeling dry
and tight, hand made soaps do not contain any of these
ingredients. Once you have tried homemade soaps, you may
never buy commercial soaps again.
When choosing a hand made bath soap be sure to look for any
and all of the following ingredients:
Olive Oil, Goat's Milk, Soybean Oil and Cottonseed Oil,
Palm Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Castor Oil, Shea Butter, Mango
Butter and Grapeseed Oil, Wheatgerm Oil, and essential
oils.
An added bonus? Soaps made with shea butters, mango butter,
Olive Oil and other beneficial oils are super gentle on
even the most sensitive skin, so you can stop paying the
big bucks for special formulas. These intensive
moisturizing soaps help rehydrate even the driest skin for
ultra soft skin that begs to be touched.
And, hand made soap only costs a dollar or two more than
the store bought kind and can last up to three times as
long. Now, that's a smart investment for the sake of
beauty!
by: Beverly Johnson(from Handmade Resource Network)
