Are Glycerin Soaps safe for infants and small children?
I have received many questions about exactly how safe Glycerin soaps are for children, babies, pets, and other critters who tend to eat things without thinking. In short – Glycerin soaps are very, very safe for use around children of all ages. In order to understand why Glycerin soap is so safe for the tinier people in our life, it is necessary to first explain a little bit about lye based soaps. Lye itself is an extremely caustic base to deal with in its raw form – strong enough to score metals and seriously burn flesh. When carefully used to create soap, as it has been for literally thousands of years, it can make a very effective cleaning agent. Soap has been one of humankinds best friends for a long time – the process of emulsification that occurs when you mix lye soap with water allows us to remove most non-soluble materials from our skin, our hair, our clothes – or almost anything else for that matter. The very chemical reaction that allow lye based soap to be so effective at cle
