Do you know the Dove product?
They now came out with a genius campaign that says we are not soap we are a beauty bar
"we are not a soap we are a beauty bar"
Why do you think it is so important for them to point this out? From a move to the real fact that they are not soap ?
So for a moment we will go back a little and explain how to distinguish between real solid soap and anything else.
What is soap?
Soap is a product created by humans through a chemical process, because oil and water cannot combine together and certainly not clean our bodies. So for this to happen, a strong base called sodium hydroxide is used, in a process called saponification, and only after the process is finished is the soap created.
It is allowed to write the word soap on a solid product, only if it was created in this process, of course there are other bases beyond this base, once potassium hydroxide was also used to create soap.
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The solid soap of the German company "Dove", marketed under the definition "cream soap for care", is not soap at all. It is also not soap-free (synthetic soap), as it is defined on another package, on which it is stated: "Dove" - soap-free skin care cream, contains 25% moisturizing cream." It turns out that abroad the product is indeed not marketed as soap : In the English caption, the word soap does not appear at all, and the product is defined as a cream.
It also turns out that in Israel there is a standard for solid soap and if the standard is to have at least 78% active substances in the soap, there is only 27% in Dove.
So Dove really make great creams (unnatural but do the job).
And as for soap, if you want to use something that will really remove the dirt that has accumulated on your skin, and not in a chemical way, then Dove is nice, but it will only apply a little more moisture to the dirt
What's more, you can always use a real solid soap and then apply a moisturizer, you'll get the same feeling.
Personally, I don't put on moisturizer at all
And I didn't suffer from dryness, it's just that since I switched to solid soap, my skin is no longer dry
Not all solid soap does not dry the skin, if the soap has a lot of coconut oil, it will not only dry the skin, it will even cause irritation, and that is why I always make my soaps with very little coconut oil and there are soaps I make without coconut oil.
Over time I learned to add a lot of butters, mango, shea, cocoa that do not completely turn into soap in the process and leave the moisture on the skin.
And there are clays like kaolin clay that you put in almost every face mask and it is really great for the skin
And rice bran oil, which is full of vitamins and antioxidants and absorbs well into our skin.
So how do you know what is recommended to purchase?
When you go to the supermarket, look for the word soap, if you find it, it is likely that it really is real soap, secondly, look at the ingredients in the soap and what their main ingredient is, if it is coconut oil
Keep in mind that it might dry out your skin,
Palmolive also has a solid soap and it mostly consists of palm oil and olive oil, even palm oil if it is a main ingredient can be drying, so pay attention to the other additives in the soap and if they have added moisturizers, so that you don't feel the dryness.
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