Henk...what do you think?

antdad

antdad

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Palmolive stick comparison.

UK one ingredients: Potassium Hydrogenated Tallowate, Sodium Tallowate, Sodium Cocoate, Aqua, Glycerin, Parfum, Olea Europaea, Elaeis Guineensis, Tetrasodium EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, BHT, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Citronellol, Coumarin, Hydroxyisohexyl 3-Cyclohexene, Carboxaldehyde, Limonene, Linalool, CI 11680, CI 12490, CI 74260, CI 77891.

German one ingredients: Potassium Stearate, Potassium Palmitate, Sodium Tallowate, Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Stearate, Aqua, Glycerin, Parfum, Olea Europaea, Elaeis Guineensis, Tetrasodium EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, BHT, CI 11680, CI 12490, CI 74260, CI 77891.
 
Different ingredients. Probably different factories/sources. DIfferences most likely driven by raw material availability. Colour is identical ;-) (those CI ingredients). Scent most likely too. All of the 'minor' ingredients are the same, only the soap base is different.

Both tallow and coconut oil, and stearate, palmitate and coconut oil should yield a good soap, virtually indistinguishable. If it weren'te for the explicit mention of sodium tallowate in the 'german' list, I would've guessed that they had just described tallow as a mixture of stearate and palmitate (which is chemically not entirely correct, since stearate and palmitate make up only ca 80% of tallow, and is certainly not allowed under INCI). Being as it is, I would, as stated above, suggest that different sources use different soap base feed stock, but otherwise identical ingredients (probably supplied by Lever as a premix so that colour and fragrance are identical no matter what, just as coca cola supply the sirup concentrate to be diluted and bottled to slighly different local recipes worldwide).

Henk
 
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