What’s the difference between liquid hand soap and body wash (if any)?

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Hands are a body part too?!?

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I work for a well known company that makes a variety of products relating to personal care. Our hand soap and body wash are actually the same formula in our base products. In fact the base formula for these products are just distributed in different bottles and marketed as different things (Hand soap & Body Wash.)

There are differences in formula between base formula and products that have other effects like moisturizing though.

I’ve also heard, but I can not claim this as fact that our dish soap also is very similar in formula besides the scent/flavor.

Edit: For those of you wondering, retailers and vendors use the term “flavor” more commonly than scent. However they are pretty interchangeable in the industry.

Edit 2: Face wash is not the same as hand soap, there are chemicals added such as Benzoyl Peroxide or Salicylic Acid. (DONT USE HAND SOAP AS FACE WASH)

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