SLS in your soaps?

[jenneelk]

Do any of you use this? I personally don't make anything with SLS for my 'natural' (yeah I know it's a loose term) products and wouldn't think to in my homemade soaps. My customers def. do not want anything with it and I understand why.

I'm just curious because I've seen 'Lush' mentioned on here and never had heard of them before (guess I live in a box with 4 kids) and checked out their stuff. They use SLS in their soaps which I don't understand. I know it gives more bubbles but it seems like an oxymoron for homemade soap to have it.

 

[lsg]

If you are referring to M&P then why not use this recipe? It is simple and a lot more natural than using SLS. Lush claims to use natural products, but I would take that with a grain of salt.

http://www.soapmakingforum.com/f38/clear-melt-pour-scratch-recipe-using-proylene-glycol-instead-alcohol-31220/

 

[jenneelk]

Talking about cp and I wouldn't use SLS.. Just curious if others do since I noticed Lush did and couldn't understand why?

 

[guiceman]

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[lsg]

focus... topic is SLS :mrgreen:

I thought I was focusing, the OP asked about using SLS in soap.:-? If you have researched LUSH products you would have seen that most of their soap is M&P. No one that I know uses SLS in CP but it is used in M&P. Perhaps you have a recipe or idea that you can share with us.

For instance, here is the ingredient list for "Honey I Washed the Kids", do you consider this M&P or CP?

Honey Water (Aqua) , Propylene Glycol , Rapeseed Oil , Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Cocos nucifera) , Sodium Lauryl Sulfate , Water (Aqua) , Sodium Stearate , Sodium Hydroxide , Fragrance , Beeswax (Cera alba) , Sweet Wild Orange Oil (Citrus sinensis) , Bergamot Oil (Citrus bergamia) , Aloe Vera Extract (Aloe barbadensis) , Sodium Chloride , Glycerine , EDTA , Tetrasodium Etidronate , Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides) , Titanium Dioxide , *Limonene , *Linalool , *Benzyl Benzoate


http://www.lushusa.com/Honey-I-Washed-The-Kids-Soap/00482,en_US,pd.html?start=2&cgid=soap

 

[jenneelk]

Lush looks to be CP.. and they have it in everything! Curious to see the thought on this with cp.

 

[Koshka]

Lush has M&P Soap bases. They kinda look like CP because they add so much stuff to it like ~fresh fruits~ and ground nuts/shells. I don't like to use nor do I make any soaps with SLS or SLES simply because I'm allergic to that thing and my body starts to itch very badly.

 

[jenneelk]

Gosh I couldn't tell it was M&P with some of them. So many items can be added it seems with CP that I thought they just add a lot of extra 'stuff' to theirs.. hence the SLS. That 'mud flats' bar looked like CP to me. LOL

Even so.. didn't know SLS was used in M&P either but can understand it more than CP.

 

[dagmar88]

The new base she has created combines sunflower oil, rapeseed oil and coconut oil with sodium hydroxide and water, mixed together and boiled to accelerate the saponification process. Salt is added to separate the soap from the mixture, and the finished soap is then extruded to produce "dry noodles".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/30/lucy-siegle-innovator-lush-cosmetics-war-palm-oil

 

[jenneelk]

The new base she has created combines sunflower oil, rapeseed oil and coconut oil with sodium hydroxide and water, mixed together and boiled to accelerate the saponification process. Salt is added to separate the soap from the mixture, and the finished soap is then extruded to produce "dry noodles".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/30/lucy-siegle-innovator-lush-cosmetics-war-palm-oil

Interesting.. thanks for the link.

 

[guiceman]

found this...


... just through experimentation I found in cp it retards gell. I don't wrap my cp soap. I add sls, one or two tsps per lb around the same time I add the fragrance

http://www.teachsoap.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2385&start=0

and this...
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/shampoo.asp

 

[Ancel]

I've wondered for a while how Lush and others can cut from their display logs, or rounds - will it being essentially a mp base allow for that?