Natural soap v. commercial soap which should you buy? Ah, commercial soap it's what most people have been using since what seems like the beginning of time, (I was about to say the beginning of time, but I believe natural soap is what we started with). It's found at the grocery store, there are several different kinds to choose from, and it's cheap, you can get 2 or 3 bars for a couple of dollars. It has great lather appeal, smells oh so clean, and will last a long time.On the other hand you have natural soap. It will cost you more, you can't get 3 for a dollar, and it's mainly found at health food stores or online, and most of the ingredients are derived from plants and essential oils. Natural soap, however is much better for your skin. Your skin absorbs much of what you put on it, that's why it's important to use natural skin nourishing products. However, always, always check the ingredients even when using products that you think are all natural and if your not sure what an ingredient is, then look it up.
If we are willing to spend more for expensive shoes and clothing, items that go over our skin then why are we not willing to spend more for what goes on and into our skin?
Here are the ingredients of a bar of natural honey oat soap; saponified cold pressed olive, coconut, organic palm, sunflower, and castor oils, distilled water, wild honey, goat milk, organic oats, and sea salt.
Here are the ingredients of a commercial bar of soap as it's stated on the box; soap (sodium tallowate, sodium cocate, and/or sodium palm kernelate), water, hydrogenated tallow acid (skin conditioner), coconut acid, glycerin (skin conditioner), fragrance, sodium chloride, pentasodium pentetate, pentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxhydrocinnamate, titanium dioxide, d&c green no. 8, fd&c green no. 3.
Which one would or should you use, only you can decide. For help in trying to figure out the safety of products whether they are natural or not go to the Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database.
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