Soap - isthere any difference between cheap & expensive

Gigervamp

Sublime wrote: »

I mainly use Lush soaps. They are very good quality, and made out of natural ingredients. Currently using their scrummy Summer Pudding variety, although Figs and Leaves, and Honey Waffle (only available online from retro Lush), remain favourites.

Summer Pudding contains a lot of unnatural ingredients :

Water (Aqua), Propylene Glycol, Rapeseed Oil; Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Cocos nucifera), Ground Almonds (Prunus dulcis), Sodium Stearate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Glace Cherries (Prunus cerasus), Perfume, Almond Essential Oil (Prunus dulcis), Buchu Oil (Barosma betulina), Juniperberry Oil (Juniperus communis), Lemon Oil (Citrus limonum), Glycerine, Sodium Chloride, EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Sodium Hydroxide, Titanium Dioxide, Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides), *Limonene, *Linalool, Methyl Ionone, Colour 17200, Colour 14700

Also, see the Limonene and Linalool? Lush say that these are found in essential oils, which is true, so that makes those ingredients sound innocuous. What they don't say is that they're allergens that have to be listed.

Sublime_2

Gigervamp wrote: »

Summer Pudding contains a lot of unnatural ingredients :


Also, see the Limonene and Linalool? Lush say that these are found in essential oils, which is true, so that makes those ingredients sound innocuous. What they don't say is that they're allergens that have to be listed.

Still lovely soaps, and better quality than some.

Daisygirl

I absolutely love L'Occitane soaps - they last ages and ages, don't turn to mush (also triple milled) and beautiful on the skin - my husband has a dry skin condition and loves their soap, they are expensive, but worth it imo.

LittleMissAspie

As much as I love Lush and I do use their stuff, their soaps aren't as natural as they could be. "Real" soap gets its foam from the oils and not from SLS etc.

Eg: http://www.handmadenorfolksoaps.co.uk/id5.html
Never tried that brand btw.

As for allergens, well I am allergic to flowers and they are pretty innocuous sounding.

Malendrino

I'm sure there are the slightest differences - moisturizer, smell, foam/gel - but to me, soap is soap. I just use what is there. Germs are everywhere anyways, so wash your hands after the bathroom and you open the door and it already hasn't made much difference.

Diane60

Daisygirl wrote: »

I absolutely love L'Occitane soaps - they last ages and ages, don't turn to mush (also triple milled) and beautiful on the skin - my husband has a dry skin condition and loves their soap, they are expensive, but worth it imo.

Me too. This is the only thing I do spend money on. One bar of 100g (£4) will last a month in the bathroom. You have to try it!!

suki1964

If you have to use soap for bathing other then hand washing - triple milled all the way