... i need to stop posting stuff late at night while being sleep deprived... does poor things for my rationalization and i end up sounding like a plank... ANYWAYS, i was searching about the lye thing, and yes while it is a basic base, it is dangerous if used improperly in its liquid form, obviously, it eats metal. Lye is used in soap because it reacts and with the oils, and neutralized, to solidify the bar, once its cured it isn't dangerous on the level that it is when its a liquid, no more dangerous than swallowing or putting toothpaste in your mouth.
THAT SAID, GLYCERIN!! i was aware that soap contained glycerin, but from what i can find its not on the level of that of toothpaste. Cheap toothpastes are composed of a large amount of glycerin as a cheap filler, in soap its a by-product as in you mix a and b and result is glycerin. So, i never really liked that much anyways. Also... i have no idea why i tried to defend the acid from the citrus flavor... BUT ON THE LINK AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS, only one of them was an actual product?? other were just people being like hey blah blah, you try this, did it work. Of which, isn't this how studies are done?? They try things, and they work or they don't? But in the links they are all referenced back to the work of a Dr. Judd, who isn't in the dentist game to make millions and screw people over, so like all of his kind, he doesn't get any publicity, and the information he does discover goes against all convection so again, gets shot down. He wrote a book on the subject, and the only thing i don't really like is how he goes on about bacteria not causing cavities, but i mean, they do and they don't. Can't remember the specific bacteria, but they metabolize sucrose (sugars) and the waste is an acid. However, drinking water while eating will go a long ways to alleviate the bacteria build up and soap does the best job of killing said bacteria.
ON TO REAL THINGS, all natural soap in the way to go i guess. That said a lot of people take advantage of the situation and charge huge amounts for something in a nice package that says tooth soap when was most seem to find work the best is Castle Soap. Which is generally all natural and free of glycerin and other fun things you would find in "soap". Thats pretty much all i have on that, i'm not honestly concerned about the cured lye, it would be a completely different story if i was putting concentrated pure lye into my mouth, i think i would have real issues, but its not really the case here.
On all this, there is this Indian thing called "oil pulling" you swish like sesame seed or sunflower oil in your mouth every morning and apparently is does great things. Reason i brought that up is because the all natural soaps use oils and thats generally it, so i wonder what the deal is with these oils and oral hygiene??
On "alternative" medicine, i'm a pretty big fan, because A:They generally work very well, and B:unlike "conventional" medicine, you don't have "side effects". My body hates medicine, i always seem to react very poorly to a lot of prescription stuff and even some over the counter things.. which i just learned from a friend of mine are generally only found here in the US.... Anyways, our traditional medicine to me is more of an alternative, because of how untested everything really is..
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Just found this, but to reaffirm my point about lye in soap, when the lye reacts with the oils it is completely consumed in the process
