Bathing Soap (Audio inside)

"***** hai jaha, tandurusti hai waha" remember this old advertisement? In this audio clip, I am talking about what is best for bathing and why we should not use branded soaps.

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Welcome, I am going to talk about soaps today.

I was really intrigued by this subject and wanted to understand everything about it, right from its origin and how it made ways in our day to day lives. Well, Wikipedia suggests that Babylonia (an ancient state in central-southern Mesopotamia “current day Iraq and Syria”) and Babylonians around 2800 B.C. made the first soap, which was used in the textile industry and medicinally. The written soap recipes found later suggests that the soap was made from fats combine with wood ash and water. Another reference is of Ancient Egyptians, they used soap ritualistically to purify the body and clothes. This confirms that Soap existed for centuries and we too are always told how Soap is so great for personal cleanliness. In recent times, soap have made its way to cosmetics too. They come in different scents, shapes, and sizes.

If all the ancient stories are to be believed, the soaps were used predominantly to clean clothes, medicinally, or for industrial purposes. I did not find any relevance yet on how and when exactly soap made its way in bathing. Though as per Ayurveda, in India we used different herbal things such as gram flour (Besan) with turmeric, Reetha, and Shikakai for hair. Most new-born babies even today are massaged thoroughly with Besan.

But clearly, in the 21^st century, we see a lot of different soap brands being launched, advertised, and promoted by various celebrities. Majorly all these advertisements tell us how good their product is, how it will make your skin glow. Since these ads are keep coming on the television, we directly or indirectly start believing in them and never really see if they are really good for us.

All these big branded soaps have different chemicals in them like caustic soda, sodium lauryl sulfate etc which do more harm than good to our skin.

Some of us also fall for these advertisements and feel the product will make their skin fairer however the fact is your skin colour depends on something called as melanin which we have in our body. Higher the melanin darker the colour of your skin.

Considering this I would urge everyone to use natural products like multani mati, turmeric, curd, or milk and use them by making a paste. All these are easily available in our kitchen.

If you are not keen on using these and are accustomed to using soap then there are few Indian companies make natural soap from cow dung. They are exceptionally well and keep your skin healthy.

Thank You!