{"id":10077,"date":"2019-08-09T15:59:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T22:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10077"},"modified":"2019-08-22T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:03:11","slug":"no-soap-no-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/09\/no-soap-no-soap\/","title":{"rendered":"No Soap! No Soap!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I don\u2019t smell!\u2019 Meet the people who have stopped washing<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A growing number of people are eschewing soap and trusting bacteria to do the job instead \u2013 and an entire industry has sprung up to accommodate them<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Amy Fleming<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jackie
\u2018It\u2019s not like I\u2019m getting bombarded with filth\u2019 … Jackie Hong, who has not used soap for nine years. Photograph: Jerome Couture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

David Whitlock has not showered or bathed for 15 years, yet he does not have body odour. \u201cIt was kind of strange for the first few months, but after that I stopped missing it,\u201d he says. \u201cIf I get a specific part of my body dirty, then I\u2019ll wash that specific part\u201d \u2013 but never with soap. As well as germs, soap gets rid of the skin\u2019s protective oils and alters its pH level. Although Whitlock appreciated gaining an extra 15 minutes a day from soap-dodging, his primary motivation was to encourage friendly microbes to live on him in symbiotic harmony. The bacteria get to feast on the ammonia from his sweat and he gets low-maintenance, balanced skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as awareness of the importance of the gut microbiome<\/a> has led to a boom in probiotic and fermented foods and supplements<\/a>, there is increasing interest in our skin microbiome: the trillions of microbes that protect us from pathogens and keep us healthy by making vitamins and other useful chemicals. In this unprecedentedly sanitised era, in which eczema, acne and problems associated with dry skin are rife, consumers are hungry for solutions. Even the mainstream brand Dove claims vaguely that its products are \u201cmicrobiome-gentle\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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