Hallo guys! One topic is bothering me since I started adding honey to soap. What is happening to honey when we put it into the soap. Soap is everything else but not a gentle media for honey. I found many sources that say fructose and glucose are degraded in strong alkaline media (which is the soap, from the moment you add the honey till the moment you use it). I don't know if you have tried the taste of honey soap but it is not sweet. Still nobody can say which are the products of the reaction between fructose or glucose and sodium hydroxide. What scientists have found is not what you want to put on your skin (we make natural cosmetics, right?) - furfuryl alcohol, furanons, hydroxyacetone, hydroxybutanone, cyclopentanediones, cyclohexanedione, butyrolactone, hexanedione, carboxylic acids and so on and so on. The list is endless.
I doubt something remains from the honey in its initial form.
I doubt something remains from the honey in its initial form.
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