#Soap July 5
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Today is Day 5 of the 30-Day Ingredient Coach4aday Challenge with the focus on what goes into a bar of SOAP.
Historians tell us that the art of making SOAP dates back to 2800 BC. Evidence points to the Babylonians, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, as well as the ancient Greeks and Romans with and understanding on how to make it. Recipes involved mixing fat, oils and salts. It wasn’t made and used for bathing and personal hygiene but was rather produced for cleaning cooking utensils or goods.
Soap for Personal Hygiene
Soap’s original purpose was to clean non-human items, but it wasn’t until the 1800’s that using it to clean our bodies became a thing. Making products exclusively for personal hygiene became intentional. The ingredients became less harsh.
Manufacturing today of bars of soap does involve chemistry. Going to take a look at popular product called Dove’s Original Beauty Bar.
Here are the ingredients with one that I wanted to learn more about highlighted in yellow.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
One ingredient you see as part of many soap bars is Cocamidopropyl Betaine. For thousands of years to manufacture you needed fats, oils, and salt. Cocamidopropyl gets derived from coconut oil.
It has benefits in three areas.
- When combined with water it produces a rich lather
- It helps hydrate the skin thanks to the coconut oil.
- It helps make any product feel creamier because it can thicken or increase the viscosity.
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