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> Since people are trying to avoid SLS, MANY tricky marketing synonyms have appeared to obfuscate ingredient lists: this seems to be almost the definition of e

> Since people are trying to avoid SLS, MANY tricky marketing synonyms have appeared to obfuscate ingredient lists: this seems to be almost the definition of evil people are trying to avoid something specific that makes them ill, so they try to hide it from them instead? scum

jamal-kumar 4y ago
The best part is all SLS does is contribute to the foaming of the toothpaste, that's literally all it does (Same thing in soap). It's just to give some psychological idea that foamy toothpaste cleans better. Something like a focus group in the 1950s came up with this ingredient.
- kragen 4y ago
  no it's a surfactant surfactants emulsify lipids in polar liquids like water such emulsification is crucial to many kinds of cleaning because cell membranes are lipid bilayers surfactants also can cause cytolysis, maybe relevant if you're trying to get bacterial films off your teeth, and sds is commonly used for this in bio labs surfactants also often foam but this is irrelevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_dodecyl_sulfate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_dodecyl_sulfate
  - jamal-kumar 4y ago
    I could imagine there's better surfactants than that out there, you sound correct and now i feel my dentist is full of lies
    - kragen 4y ago
      research papers in biomedical fields often drip with disdain for 'practitioners' (doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.) because their knowledge of chemistry, epidemiology, genomics, etc., is so limited and often wrong i'd like to see one of those statisticians save an abscessed motherfucking molar though anyway your dentist is probably not actually being bribed by tom's of maine, he just knows a lot of his patients had less canker sores when they stopped using toothpaste with dish detergent in it because guess what else has cell membranes
ornornor 4y ago
Welcome to late stage capitalism I guess.
egberts1 4y ago
Worse, these SLS gets the EPA Safe Product seal too. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-ingredients#searchList https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-ingredients#searchList

jamal-kumar 4y ago

The best part is all SLS does is contribute to the foaming of the toothpaste, that's literally all it does (Same thing in soap). It's just to give some psychological idea that foamy toothpaste cleans better. Something like a focus group in the 1950s came up with this ingredient.

kragen 4y ago
no it's a surfactant surfactants emulsify lipids in polar liquids like water such emulsification is crucial to many kinds of cleaning because cell membranes are lipid bilayers surfactants also can cause cytolysis, maybe relevant if you're trying to get bacterial films off your teeth, and sds is commonly used for this in bio labs surfactants also often foam but this is irrelevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_dodecyl_sulfate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_dodecyl_sulfate
- jamal-kumar 4y ago
  I could imagine there's better surfactants than that out there, you sound correct and now i feel my dentist is full of lies
  - kragen 4y ago
    research papers in biomedical fields often drip with disdain for 'practitioners' (doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.) because their knowledge of chemistry, epidemiology, genomics, etc., is so limited and often wrong i'd like to see one of those statisticians save an abscessed motherfucking molar though anyway your dentist is probably not actually being bribed by tom's of maine, he just knows a lot of his patients had less canker sores when they stopped using toothpaste with dish detergent in it because guess what else has cell membranes

ornornor 4y ago

Welcome to late stage capitalism I guess.

egberts1 4y ago

Worse, these SLS gets the EPA Safe Product seal too. https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-ingredients#searchList https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-ingredients#searchList