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I work in diesel-adjacent industry and as such, one line of soaps I'm always interested in improving for myself and people like me is mechanic's soap. Abrasives I have on lock just from cribbing notes from major soap brands past and present in my region, but I find my degreasers (primarily limonene) fall short for the gunks and cruds I'm exposed to on a daily basis. I've been looking at alternatives and much to my surprise it seems that kerosene and turpentine are on the table for purpose-built degreasing soaps.
So has anyone here had a crack at that? I've been exposed to enough kero that the smell really doesn't phase me, and for a pretty penny more I can get stuff with extra aromatics burned off or extracted some other way, so I don't suppose that will be much of an issue for my target audience... I'm mainly interested in how much of a horror-show it'll be to work with in a physical sense, acceleration, curdling, weird reactions with other common ingredients sort of thing.
Bonus points for anyone who has actually used a kerosene soap in their day-to-day! And I'll probably have to put an extra "Don't rub it in your eyes/smoke it/eat it" label on the packaging, but if it takes my bars from OK to Great then I reckon that's perfectly fine.
Woah, now that I'm thinking about it... what about going the whole hair of the dog and sticking a bit of ethanol-contaminated petrol in there? Might be difficult to track down an INCI name for that. And then I'd need to add a "don't inhale" warning as well. But the fragrance would be covered!
So has anyone here had a crack at that? I've been exposed to enough kero that the smell really doesn't phase me, and for a pretty penny more I can get stuff with extra aromatics burned off or extracted some other way, so I don't suppose that will be much of an issue for my target audience... I'm mainly interested in how much of a horror-show it'll be to work with in a physical sense, acceleration, curdling, weird reactions with other common ingredients sort of thing.
Bonus points for anyone who has actually used a kerosene soap in their day-to-day! And I'll probably have to put an extra "Don't rub it in your eyes/smoke it/eat it" label on the packaging, but if it takes my bars from OK to Great then I reckon that's perfectly fine.
Woah, now that I'm thinking about it... what about going the whole hair of the dog and sticking a bit of ethanol-contaminated petrol in there? Might be difficult to track down an INCI name for that. And then I'd need to add a "don't inhale" warning as well. But the fragrance would be covered!
