Body Wash VS.Soap
 

What's better to use Body Wash Or Bar Soap ? :dogpat

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Myself, I love the body wash soaps for, well, my body! LOL
But, I do use Dove facial bar for my face. :)

My husband also uses body wash AND bar soap.

We believe in cleanliness! LOL!!!

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I like the body wash for bath myself.

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Soaps, all of them that i tried, started breaking me out.

I started about 15 yrs ago, making my own soap.

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I like Dr. Bronners peppermint liquid castile soap. Very mild.

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Where can this be purchased ?

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Castle soap? guaranteed to remove orcs, trolls and crusading Christians?

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Dr Bronners is all I use!
The mint is more for summer,
and makes one cold straight from the shower;
but the others are great, too, and
are not just "scented."

Pretty much any grocery store
has them now (Safeway, etc),
GNC online, and of course health-food stores.

I came in here to suggest that,
your skin being your largest organ,
you might pause before regularly dousing it
with something you cannot pronounce,
"body-wash" wise.

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Oh my goodness! How are you able to use this on your face?!! The only bar of soap I have ever, in my entire life, been able to use on my face was one put out by Melaluca. Now I use Weleda Irish Lotion or Avalon facial cleaner. I also use Avalon's body wash. I never use bar soap. It is very drying to my skin. I'm always amazed when someone tells me they use a bar of soap on their face.

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Dr. Bronner's Almond Castile Soap or sometimes a goats milk bar soap in a variety of *flavors*. Our grocery store carries big blocks of the goat's milk soaps that you can slice off and buy by the ounce. I also use homemade salt or sugar scrubs for exfoliating and extra moisturizing. I particularly love my most recent salt scrub - olive & almond oils, sea salt and a few drops of lavender essential oil. I use it on my hands a lot, too.

I have sensitive skin, so I use more expensive products for my face (and neck), but they last a really long time:

M.D. Forte Facial Cleanser, Level II
&
SkinCeuticals Micro-Exfoliating Scrub and Equalizing Toner


+Oil of Olay Total Effects Fragrance-Free Moisturizer <---I've been a faithful user of this stuff for years. Before they had the Total Effects line, I used the Daily Moisturizer for sensitive skin (fragrance-free).

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I make my own soaps and shampoo bars... I can not stand the plastic bottles that soap comes in... or water... or anything else. I try to buy everything in glass, paper or metal.

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I haven't gotten up the nerve to try my hand at making bar soaps just yet. It seems so daunting....

Our grocery store recently started selling milk in glass bottles. The first time you buy the milk, it costs $5 or so/gallon, but when you return the bottles, you get a $2.25 deposit back. As long as you remember to exchange your bottles, the milk is no more expensive than the regular brands--and it's much better quality. It's from Memory Lane Dairy in Fordland, Missouri. I love it. They also sell some fun flavors that our kids enjoy trying out: Orange Dream (aka dreamsicle?), Root Beer Float, and Cotton Candy, as well as the more common strawberry and chocolate milk. We haven't tried the cotton candy flavor yet, but the kids love all the other flavors. They also sell cream top milk which is awesome, except the kids kept thinking it was spoiled. :heeheehee

I doubt I'll ever buy body scrubs again. The nice Alba scrub I used to buy runs about $12 for 3 oz. What I make myself is soooo much nicer and I can make large quantities of it for a lot less cost.

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I keep our milk in old fashioned milk bottles like the milk man used to leave. I have one that has a cream collector on the top... in the morning the cream is poured off for coffee and then the milk left in the bottle is not so heavy.

Mind sharing your recipe for body scrub?

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Shampoo bar?

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ooh, i want unpasteurized milk!

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Well now it's official: every possible topic has been discussed on AFF. :lol

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Sure why not discuss the differences between body wash and bar soap ?

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Of course! Not complaining. Just sayin'. :heeheehee

(I use bar soap, btw. ;))

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Anti- Bacterial soap is good to use.

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This kind of soap must be great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr_XQ...eature=related

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Me too!! I made it last year for Christmas gifts and loved it!! Thank goodness for Pinterest. Time to make some more!!

I made cocoa butter cream too!

Here's one recipe I used:

Sea Salt Citrus Body Scrub

1/2 cup sea salt
1/2 cup sweet almond oil
(can substitute light olive oil or vegetable oil)
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon orange zest

Directions

In a medium dry bowl, combine all ingredients making sure to not let any water touch them as it will dissolve the salt. Pour mixture into an airtight container and store in a cool dry place.

To use: Just before showering, swirl ingredients together with your fingertips to mix. Clean body completely and just before exiting shower, apply Citrus Salt Body Scrub to body in a firm circular scrubbing motion with hands or a soft washcloth. Rinse off the mixture and pat body dry with a clean towel.

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Why do I get the impression that you're being facetious? But hey, Louie wanted unpasteurized milk, too--check Craigslist, and make sure they are separating the rams and the dames, unless you want goaty tasting milk.

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One of the soap-makers might verify this, but my understanding is that all soap is anti-bacterial?

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Or just get cows milk, lol!

Gramen Farms does a drop to the Spring, Katy, Tomball and just about everywhere else areas for raw milk. I'd give you some but I'm having trouble keeping my share families covered since I started drying Poppy off for her upcoming calf.

And if it's really not your thing, your local grocery has the pasturized kind :)

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Yes check ebay or etsy... lots of sellers there. I sent one sweet sister here some soap... she sent me back some beautiful hand made stationary and greeting cards... I definitely got the best end of the deal!

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Actually Scott there is some current research that suggests anti-bacterial soaps are responsible for the recent increase in childhood illness. Kids need to be exposed to low levels of less harmful bacteria to build immunity to more virulent strains and for their bodies to 'learn' to quickly mount an immune response. Keeping them too clean and germ free is not always a good idea...

Explains in part why farm kids get sick so much less... they are always getting dirty, adults too!

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That's NOT milk they're offering on CL.

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? Really? Well, you might just Google "raw milk" then; I found my (goat) dairy on CL...or ask T2W, I'm a def neo here. Surprised she would recommend cow over goat, or pasteurized v not. Personally, I like enzymes, and calcium retention, but I have to believe she knows more. Calcium is a metal, and the calcium that can't be absorbed from cow's milk--a higher % than goat's, is my take--must be eliminated.

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http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a1/...l308559305.jpg

:heeheehee

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:thumbsup

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I'll have to try it with the zest! I was considering the lemon essential oil at the store the other day.


I use this one, and I modified it a little bit. It's a basic formula, so you can pretty much make it however you want.


I love almond oil, but my skin can also use the extra *sticking power* of the olive oil, so I mixed 1/4 c. almond oil and 1/4 c. EV olive oil. I added 5 drops of lavender essential oil, but when I smelled of it this morning, I couldn't even smell the lavender. The almond oil overpowers it. I like the smell of the almond oil, so that's fine with me. I'm thinking if you really wanted the lavender to stand out, you'd have to double the drops.

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Titus2: Do you sell your soaps?

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I prefer body wash.

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Sometimes when I have extra time to make them. This has been a really heavy canning year because we were droughted last year and our garden burned up... so I am replacing a lot of our food... May get to soaps soon.

Have something you'd like to try?

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Thank you so much :)

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I milk A2 mini-Jersey and Dexter cattle. Especially the Dexters have milk with a much smaller fat and protien globules and is very akin to goats milk for digestion while not having the goaty flavor. Also I can make butter, sour cream, ice cream, clotted cream and all those wonderful full fat cheeses.

I do NOT recomend pasturized milk... where did you get that idea? :heeheehee

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Ah, my bad--and I thought you
milked goats? And goat's milk
doesn't have any goaty taste,
if not pasteurized, or rams not
kept around milkers. I was floored,
did not believe it myself.

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Well, when you get around to making soaps, why don't you send (or post) a list of what you have and prices? What kind of soap do you normally make?

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I milk a herd of Kinder goats. Goats milk is by far more delicate than cows milk. It must be kept scrupulosly clean, it must be chilled very quickly, goats must not be getting too much grain, no buck goats around, not in heat... And even still after a few days I can detect some goaty flavor in the milk. Also there is a very strong goaty taste after milk is heated for cheese or yogurt... I enjoy goat cheese but not essence of goat in my coffee or on my steel cut oats :)

Two different food products... goats milk does not have to be cows milk and vice versa... I simply said... if one does not enjoy goats milk, drink cows milk... just CLEAN, FRESH, RAW, GRASS FED, ANTIBIOTIC AND HORMONE FREE... cows milk. :)