![]() Baby products that go by names such as “cleansers,” “baby wash,” “shower gel” or the like, are made from non-soap surfactants, which almost always means petro-chemicals, or derived from petroleum. Bronner’s case, olive and coconut oils) with an alkali. directly from nature, not synthetic) product made by reacting animal or vegetable oils (in Dr. I never use the word “soap” regarding these substances because they are not, in fact, soap. So, using a product with a neutral pH that doesn’t irritate a baby’s eyes but still gets a baby clean may seem like a no-brainer – until you look at what these products are made of. To lower the pH would neutralize the cleaning ability of the soap. Bronner’s Castile soaps are around 9.3, a pH not at all irritating to our skin. This is ever so slightly alkaline (a pH of 7 is neutral). Our eyes have a very narrow window of tolerable pH, around 7.54+/- 0.01. ![]() Irritation to the eyes is caused primarily from a deviation in pH. ![]() To understand why I chose to abandon the realm of “baby friendly” products demands the question, “What makes ‘tear free’ products ‘tear free’?” “Tear free” products have a neutral pH. We have to be careful to keep it out of the eyes. In fact, most of us who are now washing babies were washed with non-“tear free” products ourselves, and we survived. ![]() Consider that babies have been washed with normal soap for a really long time before the advent of “tear free” stuff. Bronner’s Baby Unscented Castile Soap on my baby, even though it is not “tear free”. ![]()
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