what is all this stuff??

[Kev Williams]

Was reading this list of ingredients last night--about half of this stuff I've never heard of, and 90% I can't pronounce!

I removed the first 2 lines of ingredients because they're fairly obvious, as I'm wondering if anyone can guess what this is?
-probably not that hard since some of the other ingredients are obvious too ;)

I guess it all has a reason to be there...

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[Malcolm McLeod]

Its maroon! ...Red 33. Blue 1. So more red than blue equals purrr.... Oh, never mind.

[Charles Wiggins]

Antibacterial hand soap?

[Andy Giddings]

Contents of a Twinkie? Or is it a Corn Dog? :-)

[David L Morse]

Shampoo maybe?

[daryl moses]

Lotion? Body wash??

[Rick Moyer]

Shampoo maybe?
I'm going here, too.

[Wayne Lomman]

Perhaps some sort of body wash or shampoo? The expert handmade soap and body products maker beside me says no, you don't actually need all this. It all works using ingredients you know the meaning of. Cheers

[Yonak Hawkins]

This is fun .. gear lube ? .. toothpaste ? .. multi-vitamin ? .. hand cream ?

[Sean Troy]

What's used when a doctor says, scrub in....

[Kev Williams]

Most of you got it :)

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Still, that's a lot of weird stuff just to clean your hands...

[Wayne Lomman]

Interesting difference in jurisdictions. In Australia that product can only be called hand wash as by our definition it is a mixture of surfactants, not soap. Cheers

[Malcolm Schweizer]

Be glad it doesn't have any dihydrogen monoxide in it. That stuff is deadly. http://www.dhmo.org/truth/Dihydrogen-Monoxide.html

[Wayne Lomman]

Very funny. The difference is that a fair proportion of the ingredients Kev listed are actually allergenic and are cheerfully sold as being good for you. Cheers

[roger wiegand]

Interesting difference in jurisdictions. In Australia that product can only be called hand wash as by our definition it is a mixture of surfactants, not soap. Cheers

What is soap if not a surfactant? Greasy on one end, polar on the other, sounds like a surfactant to me.

[Kev Williams]

In case anyone cares, the 1st 3 ingredients I left out are:

Water, Sodium Laureth Sulfate and Sodium Chloride...

[Wayne Lomman]

Soap is the result of a specific chemical reaction. As I said, in my jurisdiction, you can only call it soap if it is by that process. Ask a qualified chemist or google it for more detail.

We have truth in advertising laws here. You can't pass off a product as something else. Soap, detergent, shampoo, etc are made by different chemical processes, and therefore have different identities. Imagine buying something and finding it was something else after your allergic reaction. All chemical products are registered with NICNAS before they're manufactured in Australia whether paint or baby oil or soap etc. Call it a nationakquality assurance system. Cheers

[roger wiegand]

In common English/chemical parlance I think you will find that the terms are certainly not interchangeable, many surfactants are not soaps, but all soaps are surfactants. AU may well have redefined the words for regulatory purposes, but the usage will confuse chemists anywhere else. In the rest of the world, as far as I know, surfactant is a general category of things that lower surface tension, soaps are one class of molecules that do that.

Apologies for the pedantry.

[Wayne Lomman]

Australia has not redefined the terms, merely forced manufacturers to tell the truth as to what they are selling. Cheers

[Mac McQuinn]

From what I understand, Anti-bacterial soap has been under the gun since Sept. 2016.......might be worth researching before you purchase.
Mac

[Tony Pisano]

Soap. I usually make my own bar soap and there are only a few ingredients like lye, and a few oils, maybe some lavender essential oil. Works fine for hand washing, showering, and washing my hair