sandyvern
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I love making soap....and even buying everyone elses! But lately I think I am having an allergic reaction to it. And it doesn't seem to matter if it is mine or if it is someone else's soap that I have bought (usually from etsy sellers). And just wondering if anyone else has this problem.
I can't figure out if it is an allergy to the soap or possibly an allergy to nickel (my sister just recently said she had a nickel allergy). It is mostly a problem on my legs. I tend to just use soap to shave my legs...and whenever I use handmade (cp) soap and shave I get this itchy almost burning like feeling on my legs. Sometimes it happens if I don't shave as well. Every once in awhile I will get the same feeling on my belly or front of my shoulders (odd place I know!).
And I just want to clarify...it happens with some of my soap, and with probably about 10 different other people's handmade soaps. I have ph tested my own and a few of the others and they all seem fine. None of them have any exotic oils...just basic oils (olive, coconut, palm, palm kernel, safflower, canola, and sometimes shea butter or cocoa butter). The only other possibly connection I can come up with is I tend to like Oatmeal soaps....so maybe it has something to do with that as well.
Anyway...just wondering if anyone else has had anything like this?
And yet I haven't used anything but handmade CP soaps (whether it has been mine or someone elses) on my face since I started making soaps about 3 years ago or so because my face has never been better...as far as acne goes...I used to use lots of Neutrogena and Proactiv cause always seemed to have adult acne (not horrible...but enough to bother me)...but since I have been using handmade soaps I can count the number of pimples I have had in 3 years probably on one hand!
Ok...enough rambling...would love to hear what you all have to say....
I can't figure out if it is an allergy to the soap or possibly an allergy to nickel (my sister just recently said she had a nickel allergy). It is mostly a problem on my legs. I tend to just use soap to shave my legs...and whenever I use handmade (cp) soap and shave I get this itchy almost burning like feeling on my legs. Sometimes it happens if I don't shave as well. Every once in awhile I will get the same feeling on my belly or front of my shoulders (odd place I know!).
And I just want to clarify...it happens with some of my soap, and with probably about 10 different other people's handmade soaps. I have ph tested my own and a few of the others and they all seem fine. None of them have any exotic oils...just basic oils (olive, coconut, palm, palm kernel, safflower, canola, and sometimes shea butter or cocoa butter). The only other possibly connection I can come up with is I tend to like Oatmeal soaps....so maybe it has something to do with that as well.
Anyway...just wondering if anyone else has had anything like this?
And yet I haven't used anything but handmade CP soaps (whether it has been mine or someone elses) on my face since I started making soaps about 3 years ago or so because my face has never been better...as far as acne goes...I used to use lots of Neutrogena and Proactiv cause always seemed to have adult acne (not horrible...but enough to bother me)...but since I have been using handmade soaps I can count the number of pimples I have had in 3 years probably on one hand!
Ok...enough rambling...would love to hear what you all have to say....