Skin product advertised as “soap-free” but it contains NaOH.

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How is it soap-free if it contains an alkaline agent?

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Soap is not the same thing as alkali. Soap is the result of reacting a base (of which alkali metals and their common bases are an example) with a fat, producing a salt (in the chemical sense) of the base with fatty acids.

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