Why do we use soaps?
Are soaps scientifically the best way to clean your skin? Is there a more natural way of washing the skin? Why can't i just use plain water to wash my skin? Is that not effective enough? Lastly, how many times a week should i wash my skin(take a shower)?
Why do we use soaps?
Austin Green
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One end of the molecule latches onto oils and the other end grabs water. Oil and water, left to themselves, don't mix. Water alone won't do it.
Soaps also contain wetting agents which lower surface tension and let the solution penetrate small spaces.
Most brands also contain fragrance to cover the stink produced by bacteria which live on you.
Nicholas Thompson
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what's Veeky Forums approved soap brand?
Daniel Wood
The problem is some of those oils are supposed to stay on your skin.
Hot showers and cheap soap are terrible for your skin.
Isaiah Stewart
There's really not much difference.
Soap is soap.
Oh, some contains lanolin or aloe vera or secret ingredient XF-29, but they'll all get you clean.
Soap is cheap to make. Most of the price of a bar is advertising costs.
Buy the basic, a "house brand" or a generic or, if you insist on a "name", Ivory.
The fewer ingredients, the better.
Jack Carter
That's why the link to "how often should you shower". The English used to think bathing was bad and they only did it once a year. But, you're right, overdoing it can lead to dry, cracked skin.
Benjamin Robinson
How much is too much?
Jack Powell
>The English used to think bathing was bad and they only did it once a year
That's a little misleading. They still bathed regularly, just not a full bath. It was usually more like a basin of water and some wash cloths. The dirt crusted reeking peasant with black rotting teeth is a historical meme and not really super accurate.
Thomas Rivera
Grandpa's Pine Tar Soap. You'll smell like a forest fire.
Jackson Rivera
They also dressed in linen which absorbed sweat and sluffed off dead skin. That's why "fresh linen" was a big deal.
Lucas Torres
Your skin is basically covered in a milieu of disembodied bacterial cell walls dissolved by the lysozyme in your sweat that forms the first layer of your body's defense against pathogens. That shit isn't very water soluble.
The fatty acids in soap help dissolve all of that stuff so you can wash it down the drain or whatever you dirty fucking hippie.
Levi Turner
Personally I always thought the roman method was pretty interesting. They would slather themselves in olive oil and then squeegee it off with a small smooth stick. The idea being that oil is oil soluble. Gladiators and athletes would then sell off the stuff they scraped off to people so they could smell like musky alpha males.
The bathouses were more about socializing.
Leo Johnson
The oil soaked deep into their bodies and embedded itself in their dna, giving rise to the "greaseball Italians".
Bentley Rivera
You're a cantaloupe
Jayden Richardson
Ask the Veeky Forumsgs about this. They know everything about skin care abd dressing like a jackass
John Gonzalez
>The fatty acids in soap
WHICH FUCKING SOAP BITCH
Easton James
I, too, utilize this product.
Ethan Jenkins
>Is there a more natural way of washing the skin?
castile soap or something? I don't know.
Josiah Wood
I am interested. Where do I buy this product?
Luke Howard
literally micelles
Grayson Jones
Amazon. Sometimes stores like Whole Foods carry it but usually at a higher price. Now that Amazon owns Whole Foods, maybe the price is similar.
Blake Cooper
This sounds like it was written by a neckbeard that JUST discovered he smells bad.
Hunter Stewart
>what's Veeky Forums approved soap brand?
Dove moisturizing soap is pretty good. I use the orange scented one myself because it smells so good.
Robert Sanchez
Whatever seasonal soaps that are for sale at TJ Maxx. I love the Christmas and spring varieties.
Ethan Richardson
dirty pleb, sandalwood is the patrician choice