Many people spend hundreds of thousands and globally millions of dollars to take care of their skin, buying oils and creams to replace the ones that you remove yourself with commercial soaps and that greatly alters not only our health but also our pocket in the long term, keep reading that it may be that you are using a soap that is harmful to your skin according to several studies.
According to a study by the American journal of dermatology, 60% of the population does not understand how certain products such as bath soap can affect the health of your skin and to begin this study, he says that it is important to emphasize that the skin, which is our most important organ, By the way, the body has a naturally acidic pH, which varies between 5.4-5.9, since an acidic pH is essential to maintain a healthy skin barrier, say specialists who protect our skin from bacteria and other pathogens that are there.
Many of the commercial soaps have an alkaline pH, that is, it is higher than 7 and can upset the natural balance of our skin and strip it or take away our natural oils that leave us vulnerable to infections and skin diseases.
Many times we fall for the marketing deception and this is where the challenge begins, all the soaps that are superior with an alkaline pH greater than 7 then means that they damage your skin and you would not believe me that many even reach up to 10, they have a pH out of 10 which is extremely harmful to our health.
I will show you a list of soaps starting with the most popular soaps that we usually use, for example, brands like Lux, palmolive and protex, Lux soap for example has a pH of around 10 which of course is harmful for the barrier skin, the next most popular is palmolive that has an alkaline pH that can oscillate between 8 and 10 pH according to this study,
Protex continues, Protex, for example, is advertised as an antibacterial soap and what better way it removes all the bacteria from our skin than that apparently is good, but remember that there are bacteria that are also good and we needed them and these soaps sweep away the good and the bad bad.
Frequent use of antibacterial soaps like this can disturb the balance of the skin microbiota, leading to bacterial resistance and potentially skin conditions such as dermatitis, eczema, are some of the skin diseases that can be related to this type. of commercial soaps that have a very high pH that damages the health of our skin.
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No one explains to us that we should pay attention to this in a soap, something so basic, since we all use soap we do not realize this, but no one has ever told us which soaps are good or bad for our skin and then there are brands that are good for the skin or that at least have a pH close to the natural pH of our skin and among these is, for example, Dove, then follows Cetaphil and then there is the Aveeno brand, and adding some more popular ones. By the way, in Latin America they are also included For example, Neutrogena and Natura.
In summary, there are a large number of brands that are harmful to our skin, it is the vast majority, they are soaps that, despite being cheap and very popular, can be harmful to your skin, because they have a very high alkalinity, it may surprise you that all these marks that we see every day are not the best for your skin.
