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Sodium Hydroxide in lotion?

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momsoap

Post subject: Sodium Hydroxide in lotion?

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:01 am

Joined: Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:34 pm
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I was just reading the ingredient list on my Lubriderm lotion wondering what oils were in it and if I would be able to make my own. Most of the ingredients I cannot pronounce, let alone recognize other than water, mineral oil, glycerin, various types of alcohol, stearic acid, various unpronounceables and then, much to my surprise - sodium hydroxide! Now, to my mind this is lye... this is what I use to saponify oils and I am wondering what it is doing in this lotion!? The only oil I see listed is mineral oil which is unsaponifiable, right? Does anyone have an explanation?! I am very curious!!

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Genny

Post subject: Re: Sodium Hydroxide in lotion?

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:35 am

Joined: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:42 am
Posts: 1621
Location: Western WI

It's a ph adjuster.

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barquentine

Post subject: Re: Sodium Hydroxide in lotion?

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:02 am

Joined: Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:14 pm
Posts: 782

Lubriderm... horrible! IMO the recipe belongs pre-World War II.

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