What Are the Main Ingredients of Bath Soap?

Bath soap is typically made up of moisturizers and cleansing agents that work together to soften skin and clean it. Depending on the brand, there can be more cleansing agents than moisturizers or vice versa. Checking the individual labels can let you know what detergent additives are included in that particular soap.

Sodium Laureth Sulfate

Sodium laureth sulfate is a cleanser with high-foaming properties that make it useful for those with hard water. It adds softness to the skin and has been deemed safe to add to products by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review expert panel, reports Cosmetics Info.org. It can also function as a surfactant, which creates a smooth surface for the product to glide over. This surfactant action makes it a better cleanser because it enables the soap to have continuous coverage.

Sodium Palmitate

Sodium palmitate is both a cleanser and an emulsifier, according to the Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep database of cosmetic ingredients. Emulsifiers make oil and liquid ingredients blend well together. Alabu online states that sodium palmitate is the salt of palmitic acid and creates a lather and cleanses well, but it could also dry out your skin.

Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate

Sodium lauroyl isethionate works as a cleansing agent, an emulsifier and a wetting agent. It could be a drying ingredient. It is made through the sulfation of lauryl alcohol with a neutralization of sodium carbonate, and, while a good cleanser and degreaser, it may prove irritating to some sensitive skins.

Sodium Olivate

Sodium olivate is the salt of olive oil fatty acid, a natural product. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has deemed it safe for use as an indirect food additive. Since it is a botanically derived cleanser, it is mild and safe for use, according to Cosmetics Info.

Sodium Cocoate

Sodium cocoate is a soap detergent cleansing agent that is used in many shampoos and bar soaps. While it makes for a good lather and cleans well, it can also be a skin irritant and drying to some who have sensitive skin.

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HEALTH AND SKIN BENEFITS:

1. TREE PEONY ROOT EXTRACT

• use as a tonic, alternative astringent and general remedy in the diseases of women.
• specially recommended in pregnancy.
• anodyne, diuretic and carminative.
• special action upon the spleen, liver, stomach and intestines and is prescribed in nosebleed, wounds and other hemorrhages.
• root is the part used medicinally for fevers, colds, nervous disorders, hemorrhages, headaches and menstrual difficulties.

2. BAIKAL SKULLCAP ROOT EXTRACT

• use to treat respiratory infections, hay fever, and fever.
• Some people use Baikal skullcap for HIV/AIDS, kidney infections, pelvic inflammation, and sores or swelling.
• also used for scarlet fever, headache, irritability, red eyes, flushed face, seizures, epilepsy, hysteria, nervous tension, and to relieve a bitter taste in the mouth.

3. STRAWBERRY SAXIFRAGE

• Anti-inflammatory
• Antioxidant
• Wounds

4. N-ACETYL-L-TYROSINE

• Applied for 3 months to facial skin aged by sunlight seems to improve fine and coarse wrinkling, yellowing, roughness, and skin tone.

5. ARBUTIN

• is a proven skin whitening agent that can eliminate age spots and other types of hyperpigmentation on the skin.
• does not come with any known side effects and it is claimed to be odor free.
• is an effective skin whitener.
• effectively counter the effects of the sun’s rays on your skin.

6. PAPAYA ENZYME

• helps in removing dead skin cells along with breaking down the inactive proteins.
• helps you keep your skin hydrated.
• reduce unwanted pimples.
• smooth, supple and soft skin.
• treats sore and cracked heels.
• also acts as natural skin exfoliator.
• helps in removing skin discoloration.
• treats ringworms; reduced inflammation.
• reduces the aging signs on the face.

7. PACIFICOS VAP

8. KOJIC ACID

• skin whitening
• lighten freckles and other dark spots.
• reduces the amount of melanin production.
• also helps skin discoloration conditions that turn the skin brown such as melasma.
• removes sunspots.
• antioxidant.
• antibacterial.
• acne treatment.