You enter the supermarket and see soaps in a variety of colors, mostly liquid, in plastic bottles, with perfumed scents, and most of them with some kind of “sale” label on them. The connection between these soaps and real soaps is extremely weak. These soaps contain dangerous synthetic chemicals, harmful and strong detergents, odorants,  foaming agents and preservatives that are foreign to the body and may build up to actual damage of the skin.

Most of the soaps and the soap-less soaps manufactured in the industry are oil industry products containing toxic substances, and we apply these chemicals several times a day on our body. They cause skin rashes and atopic dermatitis, which often disappear when you stop using them and start using natural soap made from natural ingredients only. Since most synthetic chemical soaps are products of the oil industry, they contain powerful allergens that cause the skin cumulative damage- Substances whose harmful effects are also apparent in immediate use – skin irritation and inflating at different levels. Chemical soap manufacturers want to produce cheaply and sell at a considerable profit, so the materials they use to make both solid and liquid soap are cheap. Cheap chemical additives. In making real soap made from 100% natural materials, the costs are very high. Carrot oil, for example, costs 2,000 NIS a kilo, but after using this kind of soap you can only tap with a towel on the skin and not wipe it, and thin layer of fat with substances that are beneficial to the skin remains. In the production process there is also a crucial difference that leaves its mark on the quality of the final product: natural soap is produced at a temperature of 40-38 degrees Celsius. At a higher temperature the oils lose their unique properties and values. Manufacturers, who want to produce soaps that are ready to market fast, cook the soap at temperatures between 100 and 120 degrees Celsius, a temperature that causes the soap to lose all the good qualities of its ingredients.

Soap that looked like a phosphorescent fluorescent bulb with a very strong smell is probably not natural. These soaps are injected with dangerous phosphorus colorants, very cheap oils, some of them are diluted and were hot pressed rather than cold pressed, containing glycerin. Chemical soaps often contain animal material, preservatives (parabens) and boric acid suspected to be harmful to the skin, SLS.

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