Dry Skin Treatment May Have To Start in the Laundry Room

Although soap has been used to clean clothes for nearly 4,000 years, it has undergone a number of transformations which eventually led to our present day detergents. Manufacturing detergent is much less expensive than soap, and it has a number of other practical properties, but it is not the best thing for your clothes or your skin. In fact, detergent can cause and exacerbate dry skin and other skin problems. Using a natural dry skin treatment is a must to offset the damage, but you might find that reverting from detergent back to soap will also be beneficial. Until early this century, laundry soap was made by combining animal fats or vegetable oils with lye or other caustic substances and then forming it View the rest of this article