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Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field

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204 points XzetaU8 | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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indus ◴[29 Jun 25 21:31 UTC] No.44416603[source]▶
Is soap included? I seldom use body soap during a shower. Probably once a quarter, when my SO threatens me with consequences.

I am not a researcher, but I have a simple evolutionary theory that soap was invented in the last few thousand years and became a mass-market product after the beginning of industrialization.

If we survived and evolved without the use of something in the last few million years, then why is that thing needed?

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1. sjducb ◴[29 Jun 25 21:43 UTC] No.44416708[source]▶
Lots of plants can be used as soap with minimal processing (crush the plant in your hand while rubbing it on something). It’s likely that most of our ancestors used soap and we evolved to expect it. Just like we evolved to eat cooked or ground up food.