# Recommedation needed for a non-coconut-based soap that will kill COVID **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 11, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommedation-needed-for-a-non-coconut-based-soap-that-will-kill-covid/851549 "2020-04-11T05:01:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommedation-needed-for-a-non-coconut-based-soap-that-will-kill-covid/851549/21 "2020-04-11T19:07:20Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Your comment was “still has soap in it” which doesn’t make any sense. Common components of soap are problematic. Glycerine soap does not necessarily have any of these removed from it. So it’s thus not a solution. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommedation-needed-for-a-non-coconut-based-soap-that-will-kill-covid/851549/22 "2020-04-11T19:08:22Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Your comment was “still has soap in it” which doesn’t make any sense. But to your actual point, here is [a commercially available “Pure Glycerine Soap”](https://puresoapworks.com/product/pure-glycerine-soap/) which contains Sodium Cocoate, which I assume will kill our OP’s friend. Any hypoallergenic soap should work. > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Why? According to wiki common sources of the fat are There was some discussion of purity, and I specified UHP synthetic in another post. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommedation-needed-for-a-non-coconut-based-soap-that-will-kill-covid/851549/23 "2020-04-11T19:51:17Z")
If he works with an allergist, it seems like this would be a really good question for them. They likely (purposefully or just from experience) know of plenty of soaps that don’t have one ingredient or another that they can recommend. A dermatologist might be able to help as well. I’d be curious what soaps don’t kill the virus. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommedation-needed-for-a-non-coconut-based-soap-that-will-kill-covid/851549/24 "2020-04-11T20:45:14Z")
Is OP sensitive to [dish detergent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwashing_liquid)? That’s my go-to hand wash. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommedation-needed-for-a-non-coconut-based-soap-that-will-kill-covid/851549/25 "2020-04-11T22:02:48Z")
What does he usually use to wash his hands or take a shower? And why does he think that’s won’t kill the virus? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommedation-needed-for-a-non-coconut-based-soap-that-will-kill-covid/851549/26 "2020-04-11T22:44:01Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > “Hypoallergenic” is not a guarantee that _no one_ could have an allergic reaction to it, just that it’s highly unlikely. Nonetheless, as someone for whom Vaseline Intensive Care Lotions generate a bright red, itchy rash I am proof that you can still have a reaction to something labeled “hypoallergenic”… I did a patch test of hydrocort 2% and it gave me a hive the size of a large olive … but topical corticosteroid allergy has already been noted for me =) > [@Ruken](#): > > 😕 “Pure glycerin soap” still has soap in it. Adding UHP synthetic glycerol isn’t going to help anyone. Then go ‘detergent’ - a chemical that is synthetic/manmade rather than ‘soap’ natural ingredient. To be blunt, you can make soap from distilling your own lye from wood ash and water, and do the reaction with _any_ fat - you may end up with a soft soap [paste or liquid] rather than a solid bar, but cleaning gloop is cleaning gloop whether it is hard, paste or liquid. [well, OK, you can buy lye from a soapmaking website … _sigh_ but I can tell you how to distill your own =)] I know someone who has turned old school crisco [corn oil shortening, now it is palm oil] into soap, olive oil, walnut oil, almond oil, avocado oil and mango fat [the oatmeal/mango fat soap was amazeballs, never felt my skin so soft.] > [@ratatoskK](#): > > What does he usually use to wash his hands or take a shower? And why does he think that’s won’t kill the virus? Because people seem to be buying into advertising that it has to have antibacterial chemicals, and not just anything will kill it off - washing hands doesn’t kill the bugs, it washes them down the drain … though I do know someone who uses olive oil - rubs down thoroughly, then shower rinses it off, and does the no-poo just rinsing the hair and then rinsing it with cider vinegar. He has hyper sensitive skin, missing some protein making gene so his skin tears like wet tissue paper and he doesn’t make enough of the right skin oils to be able to use soap/detergent. [and he has whatever it is where he can not eat any animal or vegetable fat, he has evil chaotic cholesterol making genes … poor guy. He needs a do-over genetically!] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommedation-needed-for-a-non-coconut-based-soap-that-will-kill-covid/851549.md?page=1)