Goat milk soap

[foxjwill]

I work at a grocery store as a checker, and a lot of people seem to be buying something called "goat milk soap". I asked one of my customers what the benefits are for using it, and she said that it's less irritating to the skin and "doesn't have as many chemicals". Now, since I'm not one to take a claim such as this at face value, I took a walk over to the company's website (www . alabu . com). In there FAQs they answer the question "why goat milk soap" with

"By adding goat milk to our soap we lower its pH which helps to maintain the natural pH mantel of your skin. Goat milk is also a natural source of Alpha-hydroxy acids. Recent studies indicated that Alpha-hydroxy acids rejuvenate your skin making you look and feel smoother and younger " (http: // www . alabu . com / pages / goat-milk . html)

Since I know nothing about what any of this means, I was wondering if someone could enlighten me.

[Lisa Simpson]

I love the "chemicals" argument.

Anyway...Alpha-hydroxy Acid is an exfolliant (http://www.cosmeticscop.com/learn/cosmetic_dictionary.asp?id=757&ingredient=AHA). I prefer salicylic acid (http://www.cosmeticscop.com/learn/cosmetic_dictionary.asp?id=1904&ingredient=salicylic+acid).

[blutoski]

I work at a grocery store as a checker, and a lot of people seem to be buying something called "goat milk soap". I asked one of my customers what the benefits are for using it, and she said that it's less irritating to the skin and "doesn't have as many chemicals". Now, since I'm not one to take a claim such as this at face value, I took a walk over to the company's website (www . alabu . com). In there FAQs they answer the question "why goat milk soap" with

"By adding goat milk to our soap we lower its pH which helps to maintain the natural pH mantel of your skin. Goat milk is also a natural source of Alpha-hydroxy acids. Recent studies indicated that Alpha-hydroxy acids rejuvenate your skin making you look and feel smoother and younger " (http: // www . alabu . com / pages / goat-milk . html)

Since I know nothing about what any of this means, I was wondering if someone could enlighten me.

You don't need to understand the terminology anyway - it's marketing gibberish with no real scientific meaning.

Soaps are all different in their features, and some are less harsh on the skin and customer preference drives them to select different products. Some products are better, and worth the money.

But you don't specifically need to add goat's milk to obtain the outcome they speak to. There are many ways to reduce pH in a caustic product such as soap (such as dilution, which is free), and many ways to add alpha-hydroxy acids (but [there isn't much evidence of benefit to average consumers, and real evidence of risk of harm (http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1998/298_ahas.html)], so why bother?).

[foxjwill]

That's kind of what I thought. If goat's milk really were an excellent alternative to "normal" soap, it seems to me that the big corporations would have caught on, eh?

[Bob Blaylock]

I work at a grocery store as a checker, and a lot of people seem to be buying something called "goat milk soap". I asked one of my customers what the benefits are for using it, and she said that it's less irritating to the skin and "doesn't have as many chemicals".
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"By adding goat milk to our soap we lower its pH which helps to maintain the natural pH mantel of your skin. Goat milk is also a natural source of Alpha-hydroxy acids. Recent studies indicated that Alpha-hydroxy acids rejuvenate your skin making you look and feel smoother and younger " (http: // www . alabu . com / pages / goat-milk . html)


Well, the “doesn't have as many chemicals” claim is very obviously false. They add goat's milk to the soap, which means that the product has all of the chemicals that are in the soap, plus all the chemicals that are in the goat's milk; there is no rational or honest way to claim that this is anything other than MORE chemicals than the chemicals in either of these separate products alone.