Can I use laundry soap to take a shower?

Laundry soap is a commonly used cleaning material in life. It is used to wash clothes. It is very effective and does not hurt hands. It is the favorite detergent of housewives. Laundry soap is mostly made of natural materials. Therefore, many people like to use laundry soap to take a bath, believing that it can remove waste from the body surface. But can laundry soap be used for bathing? Let’s take a look at the explanation below. I hope everyone can understand and use laundry soap correctly.

Soap has a higher alkalinity and is suitable for washing clothes. Perfumed soap has a lower alkalinity and is less irritating to the skin, providing better protection. Soap can provide extra protection for your skin.

Therefore, you cannot take a shower with laundry soap. Compared with ordinary soap, laundry soap firstly has more impurities in the soap base, and secondly, it is highly alkaline and has a high degreasing ability, which is not conducive to the health of the skin and will affect the acid-base balance of the skin itself, causing dryness and itching. It is recommended to use shower gel when taking a bath. It is less irritating than soap and more suitable for human hygiene needs.

According to the light industry standard QB/T 2486-2008 of the People's Republic of China, laundry soap is divided into Type I and Type II according to the dry sodium soap content. Type Ⅰ: dry sodium soap content ≥54%. Type II: 43%≤dry sodium soap content<54%. In order to improve the detergency, fillers such as water glass or pure alkali are often added. Mainly used for washing clothes. The appropriately formulated oils and fats (sometimes with rosin) are boiled with alkali, and the soap base is obtained through processes such as saponification, salting out, washing, and sorting. The soap base is then made into soap blocks through processes such as blending, condensation (forming), cutting, and printing.

Laundry soap is a hard soap in the form of blocks or bars. Its main ingredient is sodium salt of fatty acids. In addition, laundry soap also contains builders, fillers, etc. Such as sorbitan, sodium carbonate, zeolite, colorant, transparent agent, calcium soap dispersant, fragrance, fluorescent brightener, etc. Laundry soap is an alkaline detergent and its aqueous solution is alkaline. It has strong cleaning power, moderate foam and is easy to use. The disadvantage is that it is not resistant to hard water and will produce soap scum when washed in hard water.