Teach Soap

Does anyone have any suggestions on a recipe for a baby with sensitive skin that I could use. Is there a way I could make it a "no tear" soap. Any helpful advice or recipe suggestions would be appreciate. \

Thanks.

Handmade soap is a pH of 9 naturally. If you try to lower the pH it will break the "emulsion" and you will end up with a caustic oily mess. The no tear shampoo is most likely a syndet, adjusted for a lower pH.

I would make a pure castile and HP it, so you could use it sooner. The soap will still benefit from a long cure though.

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IMO can't be done with actual soap. This is an area where synthetic surfactants easily win.

I usually find it is the fragrances in the soaps that cause eye irritation - if you made a mild soap with no colour or fragrance it shouldnt sting the eyes. I have a number of soaps that I can use on my face and open my eyes with lather all over and not have them sting my eyes at all. It is usually one with little or no fragrance (either FO or EO) so I would try something like that and test on yourself - wash your face and open your eyes and see if its stingy?

I am from India and lived here for a long time.
In India for babies we never use soap. We use chick pea flour (in the south of India) to maintain the softness.
I still do sometimes use it and the skin gets really soft.

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Chick pea flour.....interesting,would you just apply it to wet skin or just make it into a paste?

Make it into a paste and apply. Plus we massage the babies with coconut oil and it takes away the greasiness too.
It feels like oatmeal bath.

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I once heard that the famous "no more tears" shampoo has a numbing agent so it doesn't sting. Not sure if they're any truth to that.

Think of how fabreeze works. It can't possibly block or eliminate odors. It stretches your neuro-receptors so you don't smell odors. They're still there, but you can't smell them because of the effect the chemicals has on your olfactory senses.

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