Thank you for the tip.

Thank you for that clarification.

That’s good to know.

I’ve just tried to explain that in my country there is difference between soap and hard soap.

Hard soap is harsh to the skin for prolongued use. It’s made with lye and used to do laundry, deep clean surfaces, etc. It has no perfumes and can even have a slightly pungent, almost bleach like, odor.

Soap is used in personal hygiene. Scented, hydrating, skin safe. Some can even labelled as “technical” and have additives put in to address specific skin conditions, like goat or donkey milk, pine tar, sulphur, etc.

Both soap forms are solid.

Hard soap, in my country, is a very hard, usually white and blue or white and pink, soap, available in long 1kg bars. It brings a warning that the soap is intended for laundry and general cleaning, but it can cause skin irritation or dryness due to the caustic soda used to make it.

Personal hygiene soaps I still haven’t discovered what reagents are used to trigger the reaction for soap making but do not carry that risk.

We have different words for the stuff. Hard soap is called “sabão” while personal hygiene soaps are called “sabonete”.

That seems extremely interesting. Should I DM you?

For what it’s worth, my intuition tells me the soap market in my country is currently heavily geared towards women and even more towards a niche within the general population of women that go into the extreme girly style.

Most soaps are incredibly sweet scented, heavy on flowers and fruits. This leaves men’s soap, my case, to become a very narrow market. Men’s market is currently covered by the big brands - Axe, Old Spice, etc -through their “active/sports/urban” lines of body wash that usually smell like cars or floor disinfectant covered with a layer of cheap, strong, short lasting perfume.

Not my thing.

I have used hard soap in the past for personal hygiene and it does a wonderful. Solved a case of heavy dandruff with it.

However, hard soap I find in my market tends to dry the skin over time, due to the lye. It can be used to deep clean nearly almost anything because the lye kills all nasties it comes in contact with but… I know of situations where operating rooms were desinfected using hard soap.

Agreed. Let us get primal!

I get the reference and I feel obligated to remember you about the first rule.

Ivory isn’t available and Dove does not play well with my skin; I’m left feeling my skin oily.

Photo or it did not happen.

I can personally attest that making your own soup is worth it.

Meanwhile, I’m thinking I’m going to make a different batch every two weeks to have enough soap to gift.

Hence my statement: it’s a matter of imagination

I’be stumbled on that video before and the concept was just horrifying.

The kits I’m finding are for decorative soaps and I’m not in the wanting to make things to stuff my drawers.

I’ll have to read on cold reaction soap.

I want to go back to basics but I’m not considering going that basic. But it’s a nice idea.

Isn’t that what is considered hard soap? A bit like Marseille soap.

You use it for general cleaning or personal hygiene?

I had never heard of Imperial Leather until this day and I am sad for it. Seems to have an unusual scent when compared with the usual herbs/flowers/vegetable byproducts my country usually favours.