RE: Glycerin soap

[Guest guest]

This is the truth of it. People refer to any clear soap as being a

glycerin soap. What makes a soap clear is the addition of a solvent to

break up the crystal structure of the soap. Soap is after all, a sodium.

Additional Glycerin will do it, but so will a number of other

ingredients and surfactants. And alcohol, or sugar water will also work.

So, a clear soap is not necessarily a glycerin soap.

What dry skin needs is water, as to the issue of glycerin being drying,

I suspect if that were true it would be more well known.

Joanne

Harper's Garden

-----Original Message-----

I believe it has more to do with the ingredients in the soap rather than

the glycerin drawing moisture from your body.

[Guest guest]

Joanne,

It seems to be fairly well known just not why it's drying.

Sherry

>

> What dry skin needs is water, as to the issue of glycerin being drying,

> I suspect if that were true it would be more well known.

[Guest guest]

This was an ad for a soap on a site that claimed their glycerin " soap is an

all vegetable based glycerine soap which does *not* contain any harsh

ingredients like ethanol, diethanolamine, polyethylene glycol or cocyl

isethionate. "

It is my understanding that:

Melt and Pour soaps are not true soaps, not made in a CP method, and not a

" glycerin soap " .

" Glycerin soaps " are true soaps are made the CP method and then

alcohol/sugar or glycerin is added to make them " transparent " .

That " glycerin soaps " aka " transparent soaps " can NOT be created WITHOUT the

use of an alcohol base.

Correct me if I am wrong, please.

Sherry

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