Good Soap Without Essential Oils?
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ogallala bay run (ogallalabayrum.com) makes an unscented "all over" bar as well as one specifically for shaving. That might fit the bill.
mama bear's uncolored/unscented glycerin soap is as pure and simple as soap comes. lathers great and is inexpensive.
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Pretty much, yes. Essential oils are generally used to provide a scent to a shaving product (although some purportedly have other advantages such as astringent and antiseptic properties).
If essential oils are the only thing you are trying to avoid, you can get soaps fragranced with fragrance oils. Many of Mama Bear's scented soaps, for example, don't have essential oils but have plenty of scent.
Art of Shaving Unscented should also do the trick.
+1 and a very good soap it is. triple-milled, long lasting with mild, thick lather
What is HCG? And who wrote the information that states that EOs are bad?Could you please recommend any good shaving soaps that don't have essential oils in them? My wife and I are going to give the HCG thing a try, and the informaiton says essential oils are bad
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It is a protein that is supposed to help with weight loss. We spray that stuff on the roof of our mouths, limit our calorie intake, and walk a lot. Basically, do what you normally do to lose weight, but this is like a sort of "amplifier" to help you lose more.
My knowledge is still pretty limited, my wife would have better information.
http://www.hcgdietinfo.com/HCG-Diet-Protocol.htm
My wife read that EOs can counteract the effect. This makes me sad, I have all these soaps I probably won't be able to use.
Do those and shave with what you want.
It is a protein that is supposed to help with weight loss. We spray that stuff on the roof of our mouths, limit our calorie intake, and walk a lot. Basically, do what you normally do to lose weight, but this is like a sort of "amplifier" to help you lose more.
My knowledge is still pretty limited, my wife would have better information.
http://www.hcgdietinfo.com/HCG-Diet-Protocol.htm
My wife read that EOs can counteract the effect. This makes me sad, I have all these soaps I probably won't be able to use.
FWIW, I looked at the site you linked and it's a quack diet.
I hope they don't really make you stick to 500 calories a day; if they do, you will be miserable. You'll lose weight initially but then after awhile level off. You won't be able to maintain the diet, so you'll eventually eat, and when you do, you'll gain a bunch of weight because you'll have slowed down your metabolism so much by the starvation diet.
That's a diet you are sure to lose weight with! No breakfast, huh?
I'll bet you could shave with some scented soap and drop plenty of weight.
I'll bet you could shave with some scented soap and drop plenty of weight.
I really doubt that the amount of EO added to a shaving soap would be enough to "counteract" anything you're taking orally. Plus, you wash it away when you're done shaving. It's not like it stays on your skin, i.e, the way it would if you were massaging it into your body via a carrier oil or lying in a hot, EO-scented bath.
Also, don't forget that the term "Essential Oil" covers an awful lot of ground. Are salads, fresh veggies & fruits a part of this diet? What about the various vegetable & fruit EOs you'll be ingesting from them?
Also, don't forget that the term "Essential Oil" covers an awful lot of ground. Are salads, fresh veggies & fruits a part of this diet? What about the various vegetable & fruit EOs you'll be ingesting from them?
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That's a diet you are sure to lose weight with! No breakfast, huh?
I'll bet you could shave with some scented soap and drop plenty of weight.
Not go stray off topic, but the idea is to use the fat stores for energy. The HCG protein helps with that. I know several people who have used this and been successful. They say hunger is not an issue.
At any rate, I already told SWMBO I would try this with her. I just said I would post asking B&B about non-EO soaps. I figure if we are going to do this, we should follow the instructions.
I appreciate all the suggestions, thank you.
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Good points. I admit, I'm still very ignorant with the details surrounding this diet plan. We haven't started yet, I am gathering info before we do. If the EO doesn't absorb into the skin when shaving... I can't imagine there being a problem with the HCG stuff.
Just be aware that ALL plants contain essential oils. This is why I find the "EOs are bad" comment a little difficult to accept, at least at face value.
Some EO may indeed be absorbed by the skin when shaving. However, don't lose sight of the fact that EOs are added to the soap for scent purposes only, not as a therapeutic agent. (You could perhaps argue against this with QED's soaps, since he super-saturates them w/EOs. But I still think that's for purposes of scent only. Any "therapeutic" value is a bonus.) Where you might want to stay away from concentrated EOs would be with aftershaves, since they remain on your skin. But again, I'd bet anything that not all EOs are contraindicated for this diet. It's probably only a few, if any. At least, that would be my guess.
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Sorry, my "EOs are bad" wasn't very clear. We read that the EOs can counteract the effects of the HCG. I don't know. My wife did talk to someone that is using this same product and they didnt do all they were supposed to, yet still losing noticeable weight each week. I'll most likely keep my shaving soaps. I really didn't want to give 'em up for several weeks.
I am the not-so-proud bearer of way too many kilos of fat (BMI was ~37); and the amount grew ever so steadily despite a lot of exercise (I cycle and swim between 4 and 7 hours a week). I was like this for five years or so, and got fed up with it a month or two ago. So first I checked with my GP first to rule out the admittedly unlikely possibility of physiological causes (which he did), and then poured over my eating habits with a dietician. It turned out that although they weren't too bad, I was still taking in too much to be offset by exercise. I'm not much of a candy eater, but over the years I had very slowly begun to eat certain foods on regular occasions which should only be eaten sparingly.
The result now that those products have been exorcised from my daily menu, and me sticking to a healthier diet which limits me in but a few ways: losing about 7 kilos in 2 months, and declining still as we speak. An 'amplifier' doesn't make a lot of sense, unless it is one which allows you to speed up the passage of time so that you're done with the diet in a fraction of the time.
(The only things I truly miss in my diet are cheese, and some kinds of mettwurst. Proper cheese has a fat percentage of 50 and higher; the stuff with a fat percentage of 30 and lower is revolting stuff you actually have to eat with things like tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber to hide the yucky taste. And there is simply no low-fat substitute for proper mettwurst.)
The HCG sounds like a bunch of snake oil to me. This is real HCG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chorionic_gonadotropin
One of it's secret and underground uses is by body builders and other sportsman to restart their natural testosterone production after doing a steroid cycle. Think of jumpstarting your testicles to bring them back to normal, that way they will not lose any of the gains, or will keep the loss to minimum.
I think whoever wrote that diet must have got a wind of this and created another buzz word diet. Also HCG isn't taken orally, it's injected. As far as I'm concerned it's another placebo to get money out of people looking for a quick fix.
One of it's secret and underground uses is by body builders and other sportsman to restart their natural testosterone production after doing a steroid cycle. Think of jumpstarting your testicles to bring them back to normal, that way they will not lose any of the gains, or will keep the loss to minimum.
I think whoever wrote that diet must have got a wind of this and created another buzz word diet. Also HCG isn't taken orally, it's injected. As far as I'm concerned it's another placebo to get money out of people looking for a quick fix.
