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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I used shampoos and body washes. I had all the problems you cited. I switched to soap. They all went away. ("Body wash", you see, is not soap. Nor is shampoo. Nor are "beauty bars" or any of the other terms the "beauty" industry foists off on us as cleansing products.

The issue, it turns out, is that most "cleansing" products are sodium or potassium (I forget which) laurel sulfate at their core (something that's easier to make at industrial scale and to attach additives like scents and such), and that stuff is horrifically bad for skin in a wide variety of ways. All the other crap we add like "moisturizers" and "conditioners" and "rinses" and such is there to undo the damage that the cleaning product caused in the first place.

Soap (real soap) is chemically very different and doesn't have the drying and damaging impact on skin that laurel sulfate does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yes SLS is your industrial surfactant. But it's just an alcohol molecule I think, hard on skin when used to excess but not inherently bad.

But even that, I think it's only tangential to my concept though. While the body wash can contain ingredients X, Y, or Z my point was I feel like we likely need 1/50th the amount of bodily cleansing vs the expected norms. I don't think we need to wash most of our bodies outside of our dick and pits, really. Hands obviously for sanitation reasons, the rest largely pointless and actively harmful in my worldview. Even your asshole has its own specialized lubricants that you're really not supposed to industrially strip out of there. Sorry to be graphic lol