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I'm taking a shower at someone else's house and I noticed they have 1 bottle that says "3-in-1, shampoo, conditioner, and body wash".

Why isn't this the standard? Why do we even need 3 different types of soaps to bathe?? Have I bought into Big Soap capitalist propaganda without even noticing??

I just finished showering with the 3-1 soap and I don't feel any difference between the 1 soap vs the 3 soaps I have at home.

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[–] rayyy@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Using a soap without harsh chemicals would be best - same with conditioners.

[–] Isolde@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Harsh chemicals like what? Your body is completely made up of harsh chemicals; so I’m not quite following what you mean.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Chemicals like sodium lauryl sulfate and other fatty acids with organosulfate head groups, which are much more powerful surfactants than the fatty acid sodium salts you get by reacting lye with a fat (like vegetable oil). "Traditional" soaps like that also contain glycerol (formed when the lye cleaves the glycerol backbone off of a triglyceride), which acts as a humectant moisturizer.

Technically, at least in the US, chemicals like SLS aren't legally classified as soap, and must be called a detergent. Which is why so many products are called things like "body wash" and "body bar", and you wont find the word "soap" on their packaging.

[–] Isolde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, but it has been used for so long to make lather; people feel as though other products aren’t effective if they don’t lather.