It may come as a surprise to find an article about something as commonplace as soap in our drug-free lifestyle series but if you read the advertising materiel for many skin-cleansing products, they make as many therapeutic claims as most licenced medications, and like medications, soap has side effects.  Most commercially available products including body-wash, shampoo and shower-gel work in the same way as soap and so should be considered to be the same.

We buy soap to remove our natural skin oils, then moisturisers to put them back!  Read on to reduce soap use and enahance your skin health naturally.