u/persephonelux

Getting deep into the science of soap and various claims. From what I’ve read, it seems like soap is made to remove oil from skin and different oils do so to different degrees. So “conditioning” bars aren’t adding oil to your skin, they’re just removing less natural oil that’s already on your skin(?)

Because soap has one end that attaches to water and one end that attaches to oil, so any superfat will just get attached to the soap molecules once they’re activated with water(?) Superfatting just makes sure there’s no free lye in the soap(?) It does not actually deposit a “moisturizing” layer of oil on the skin(?)

“Moisture” has to do more with oleic fatty acid, not stripping as much of our natural oils(?) is that all correct?

I have size 5.5/6 feet but I’d have to go up to 6.5 a lot since shoes are so narrow and I have really wide feet. Now going with wide toe box barefoot shoes, I can go back to my true length size! Even better! I can actually size down to child size shoes and those shoes are cheaper! Saved a bunch of money getting child sized earth runners. Crazy to see shoes that actually fit my length and width