Not that long ago, we used to wash ourselves in the shower with soap. But now liquid body washes dominate the supermarket shelves. I use soap from Eco-store. The lemongrass bar smells great. Fortunately the ingredients in the body washes I checked out on the Skin Deep Cosmetics database commonly rated in the low risk range of 0 to 3 (on a 0 to 10 scale).
However the Ecostore package claims that the product has, among other things, no sodium lauryl sulphate. The natural health information website claims that sodium lauryl sulphate damages the skin and is a causal factor in health problems. As a comnsumer, it is hard to get to the truth about these products, but my instincts tell me to go with products are more natural – so its back to bars of soap,
Another major advantage of soap is that the packaging is cardboard, whereas the bodywashes come in solid plastic packaging.
Ecostore products are available in New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Hong Kong. Do you know of good alternatives for other countries?
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