If you see the words “sodium tallowate” or “sodium lardate” on your soap label, it contains animal fats. Many animals can detect the aroma of the fat, even over perfume-y scents, ...

(That’s sodium tallowate in mass-market parlance.) Cheap soaps do banish dirt; the trouble is they mess up the skin’s pH (acid/alkali) balance, which keeps skin supple.

Sodium cocoyl isethionate, stearic acid, sodium tallowate, sodium stearate, sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate, sodium cocoate, PEG-20, sodium isethionate, petrolatum, sodium isostearoyl lactylate ...