Revolutionary Process Generates Solid Soap Bars from Unsaturated Fats

SUMMARY:  Dr. Wu has improved upon his unique formulation of soap made from mono and poly unsaturated fats to make a new soap that is  harder and truly fragrance free. 

January 19, 2012 

When it comes to natural soaps these days, it’s almost like opening your closet and deciding what to wear.  There are so many choices.  Too many.  Certainly most claims for  soft healthy skin cannot be substantiated except by the placebo effect. Some soaps are not even efficient cleansers.  Most purchases are based on smell as one of the only obvious features of soap.

So when there is no odor, what "facts" can you go on when you select soap.  How does one soap differ from another? Which soap is right for you?

Dr. Wu, a PhD in Molecular Biology, has taken soap into the 21st century and used a hot process backed by real science to make a soap made from unsaturated fats.  Traditional  “natural” soaps are cold processed and made from saturated fats. All natural soaps are fatty acids and salt, but when unsaturated fats are used, the soap molecules created are small enough to enter the skin and nourish it as it cleans. 

The market for Soap Discoveries is the  aging population conscious of the changes in their skin. This group is interested in a simplistic approach to skin care rather than a multi product regime.  Soap Discoveries is targeted at spas and high end pharmacies.

Our  new and improved bar is harder, longer lasting, and truly fragrance free. 

Dr. Wu’s Soap Discoveries is neutralized soap that is safe for your skin and the environment. Produced in Northern California, it is made from all natural ingredients. Because Dr. Wu’s molecular biology based process combines materials at the molecular level, scientific names best represent the contents.

Why Soap Discoveries Should Be Your Beauty Bar

These days we demand more from our soap than just feeling clean.  We want it to soften our skin, protect it and prevent it from aging.  This is a tall order and claims of this magnitude are not supported by the FDA.

Despite extravagant claims about the benefits of essential oils, most soaps contain molecules that have no nutritional benefit so they do nothing for the skin except provide a solution for cleaning it.  Many even damage the skin by removing the natural acid mantle layer of protection which inhibits bacteria and dehydration. They have not been formulated by scientists.

The science of soap has lead to discoveries that can be beneficial to your beauty regime.  Dr. Wu, PhD in Molecular Biology, has used the fact that cell membranes are lipids, to develop a soap with multiple polyunsaturated fatty acids. These fatty acids form the major lipid components of all cell membranes.  As an ingredient in soap, they are the basic building block of new skin cells.

As you wash, you slough off dead skin cells making the skin dry and susceptible to UV damage.  Soap Discoveries replenishes skin cells by adding back multiple polyunsaturated fatty acids through the simple process of absorption by the skin.  Enjoy the silky finish on the skin that is the result of using Soap Discoveries.  And keep in mind that because the ph has not been changed, you can use treatment products after washing and be confident that they are being absorbed.

Clogging or Non-Clogging: How to Choose the Best Soap for Your Skin

When you consider your next purchase of a facial bar, make sure you avoid soaps that will clog your pores. Teens especially should choose a soap that does not aggravate their overactive sebaceous glands by further clogging their pores.

Understanding the properties of the oil that is used to formulate your facial soap is very important to your purchase. Advertising is misleading. Many oils that are touted for skin use such as cocoa butter, coconut oil and wheat germ oil are the most comedogenic, or pore clogging because they are the highest in saturated fats.

Generally speaking, soaps made of soft oils or unsaturated fatty acids, have less chance of clogging the pores. Since the various vegetable oils used to make soap are a combination of saturated and unsaturated fats, the manufacturer needs to choose oils that contain the highest percentage of unsaturated fat. Look for oils like olive oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, flax seed oil, and hemp oil in the ingredient list of your soap. Soybean oil in particular is not pore clogging because it contains 70 -80% unsaturated fatty acid.

Water is another important factor for the results you achieve in washing your face. Avoid hard water or water with too much acidity. When the calcium and magnesium ions in hard water interact with soap, a wax like non-soluble precipitation will form that clogs the pores. Warm water will open pores to clean them and is not harsh to the skin like hot water.

One must consider all the factors to choose an appropriate soap.

This is a general guide for non-comedogenic, or non pore clogging ingredients based on user and soap makers’ experience.

Low Clogging Probability	Medium Clogging Probability	High Clogging Probability
Almond Oil (Sweet Almond)	Corn Oil	Cocoa Butter
Anhydrous Lanolin	Cottonseed Oil	Coconut Oil
Apricot Kernel Oil	Crisco	Sodium Chloride (salt)
Avocado Oil	Glyceryl Stearate SE	Wheat Germ Oil
Beeswax	Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil	Extra Virgin Crude Pressed Oil
Bentonite Clay	Mink Oil
Candelilla Wax	Soybean Oil
Castor Oil	Sulfonated Castor Oil
Cetearyl Alcohol
Emulsifying Wax NF Emu Oil
Evening Primrose Oil
Glycerin
Hydroxypropyl Cellulose
Jojoba
Kaolin Clay
Olive Oil
Peanut Oil
Polysorbate 20 and 80
Safflower Oil
Sesame Oil
Stearic Acid
Sunflower Oil
Tocopherol
Aloe Vera (cold pressed)

Why Our Soap Is Soft?

When you unwrap your first bar of Dr. Wu's Soap Discoveries you will immediately notice that our soap is soft. Why is our soap different from all other soaps? Because Dr. Wu's Soap Discoveries is formulated with soft oils. These oils are high in unsaturated fatty acids that are always soft at room temperature.

Think twice before you use a hard soap made with shea butter or cocoa butter. The solid saturated fats in butters produce soap molecules that not only tend to clog the pores, but also blood vessels. These soaps may feel and smell luxurious, but there is no lasting benefit to their use except cleanliness.

The same goes for soaps made with coconut oil. This highly saturated fat will last up to two years without going rancid. Coconut oil makes soap lather, but it also clogs the pores. So why would you bathe in it?

There are numerous examples of soaps made from oils that are saturated fats. Most soap manufacturers choose oils that will produce hard soap bars because that's what you as a consumer expect.

Experiment. Change your expectations. Try our 21st century soap.


Dr. Wu's Soap Discoveries
applying science to clean
http://www.soapdiscoveries.com/

Debunking Soap Ingredients

The billion dollar personal care products industry isdriven by marketing.  Companies invest inconsumer awareness to exploit our collective fears of germs, aging, and ingredients that can affect our health and the environment.   On any given trip to the store, buyers are standing in the aisles reading the product  ingredients list to determine if they want to make a purchase.

Unfortunately, the ingredients list does not tell the whole story, especially when it comes to soap.  When companies list expensive oils as ingredients they are not providing better ingredients,just more costly ones.All plant oils are formed by a combination of the same 8 fatty acids.

These eight common fatty acids are Lauric acid, Myristic acid, Palmitic acid, Stearic acid, Oleic acid, Ricinoleic acid, Linoleic acid, and Linolenic acid.  They represent more than 90% of all the fatty acids in oil. We list the fatty acids we use to make our soap on the wrapper.

It is scientifically incorrect to list oils as ingredients. Once the oil becomes soap, it is not oil any more.  For example, you cannot shower with olive oil but you can use a soap made from olive oil.  What's the difference?   The ingredient is not olive oil, it is soap that has as its main ingredient sodium oleate.

Soap is a combination of fatty acids and salt.  Dr. Wu’s Soap Discoveries is one of the few pure soaps on the market.  Pure soaps are so safe they regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and do not require ingredient labeling.

Choose Dr. Wu’s Soap Discoveries for all  your beauty and bath needs.

Natural Soap Choices

When it come to natural soaps these days, it’s almost like opening your closet and deciding what to
wear. There are so many choices for so many niche uses.  Do you want a soap for your face, or for your body.  Do you want a soap that relaxes, refreshes, soothes, moisturizes, nourishes, has aroma, essential oils, or even cleans?  Do you need to emerge from the tub smelling like roses?  What is your occasion and need?  

Uncomplicate your life. Dr. Wu’s Soap Discoveries is one simple soap that nourishes and protects your skin as it cleans.  As a daily soap, when nothing else suits, this bar belongs in your beauty arsenal.  You don’t have to think about it.

Formulated by a molecular biologist, Dr. Wu’s Soap Discoveries applies science to clean.

What Is the Molecular Biology of Soap?

Soap is the sodium salt of a fatty acid. It is made by mixing fatty acids like vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide, or lye. 

Fatty acids are long chains of hydrogen and carbon atoms with an extra hydrogen atom at one end and two oxygen, one hydrogen, and one carbon atom on the other end. This formation is called the carboxyl group and  can be saturated like Palmitic acid or unsaturated like Oleic acid.

Fatty acid molecules are usually found as part of larger molecules called triglycerides. A triglyceride molecule is produced when the carboxyl group ends of three fatty acids  are cross-linked with one molecule of glycerol. During the soap making process,  the  sodium hydroxide cuts the bond between the fatty acid and the glycerol to form glycerol and soap.