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Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:01 pm  |
Hi - I am still on my quest for a cleanser, and I have been reading on the internet about goats milk soap - the real kind, you know, hand milled, in small batches, no fillers, etc etc.
Anybody use these for cleansing their face? Good things? Bad things?
There is a small company called alabu that has one with tea tree in it that I am especially interested in... |
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:14 pm |
| I personally don't use it but my brother swears by it and won't use anything else. |
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:18 pm |
| My sister used goat's milk soap with tea tree and lavendar on her face for quite some time. It was handmade and she could only get it in the summer, so she moved on. She said it worked for her. I could never use it; I'm too dry. |
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:09 pm |
| I have tried goat milk soap and it was too drying for my skin. Also tried shea butter soap and still too drying. |
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~~ super-sensitive, dry, dermatitis prone, rosacea/northern calif ~~ |
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:53 pm |
| I've just started using a homemade moisturizer with goat's milk, shea butter, and jojoba and absolutely love it! I have sensitive skin prone to hyperpigmentation and it works better than almost anything I've used! Not only is it 1/10th the price of all the other stuff, but I use it all over my face instead of doing the eye cream, serums, etc. |
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:57 pm |
| I just bought some handmade goat's milk soap from hawkmoon.com, for use in the shower. I don't use it on my face (because of the ph being high) but on my body it's very pleasant. Not drying or irritating. |
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:05 pm |
Hi Pocoloco
How do you know the pH is hi? The website I found actually said that goats milk makes the pH of soap made with it pretty close to that of skin. 
Thanks |
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:32 pm |
| Elizasue, the website I bought from, Hawkmoon.com, doesn't make a specific claims about ph (unless I missed it). But in my research, the only way to get the ph of a soap down is to use an acidic ph adjuster such as citric acid. I've seen it done more often in liquid soaps than in bar soaps. I'm no expert but based on the reading I've done I think it is very difficult to lower the ph of bar soap to the general ph range of skin. Most soaps are ph 9-11, and skin is supposed to be 5.5-7. If goats'milk were added, I think it would bring the ph down a bit, maybe to 8.5 or even 8. I don't think milk could bring it down more than that. If anybody knows differently, I'd love to be proved wrong about this. |
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:42 pm |
 - the website I am looking at is alabu.com
They don't make a claim about a specific pH, they just say that the goats milk lowers the pH of the soap, helping to preserve the acid mantle of the skin. So I guess just how low is anybody's guess. Anyone have any more info? I went ahead and ordered their tea tree bar anyway, thought I would give it a try. It's got emu oil in it too. It sounded a little similar to the earth to body soap Yen has been so impressed with. I also ordered some of their other recommendations for sensitive skin - I'll post reveiws after I give them a try. But I'd still love to hear about anyone's experiences with this type of soap. |
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