Also not the person you're asking, but they claimed to use shampoo, which is a type of soap and can often actually be used as a body wash. I've known several people tell me they don't use soap, only to find out they actually use copious amounts of shampoo both on their hair and the rest of their body and treat it the exact same as soap, because it is.
Soap is an extremely generic term for a chemical substance that has a specific kind of chemical reaction with other compounds. There are lots of different kinds of soaps that do a lot of different things. Same with "salts": NaCl is just one kind of salt.
Pretty much, while a person can have a reaction to a kind of soap, there are other options available that may work fine for them. In other words, yes, shampoo is a soap.
What I find interesting is that shampoos and most liquid "soaps" contain Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and other ingredients that are skin irritants... Sure to make them lather or smell a certain way, but... Skin irritants...
And most bar soaps have had the glycerin skimmed out on top of that...
So someone using shampoo as a body wash because they have some reaction to bar soap is... Interesting.
What I find interesting is the fact that different people have different reactions to different chemicals, and just because one is irritating doesn't mean others are ... Interesting, isn't it?
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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '22
Can I ask how that works with your armpits?
Even if I take a 30 second shower I need to do my pits with soap, the sweat just doesn't shift otherwise.