A new enema soap - well new to me anyway - Dial bar soap with Marula Oil

I searched the discussions, seeing nothing on this. So here's my experience with it. Mind you it's only one use. I shall keep using it and alter this as/if necessary.

I usually take a 1.5 - 2qt preliminary lower soapy cleanse prior to using a colon tube for the 4 qt main event. Today I tried a bar soap by Dial with Marula oil. It is a glycerine soap, so it produces the desired effects quickly and thoroughly. Not so much cramping and a quick evacuation. Very pleasant scent. The colon tube went up readily with no fuss. That's always a pleasure.

Some Dials are anti-bacterial soaps. I would be very careful using anything anti-bacterial in an enema. Your colon needs microcritters to make poo, else you get the runs badly. Think the aftermath of many antibiotics.

It's hard enough in the US to control counterfeit products.

The US puts a lot of resources into it and the major chains do their own research.

other countries may not have the resources

Merula oil is not something too many people in the US are familiar with. I would be suspicious of that product

Not heard of Marula oil either, me no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marula_oil

Says used to preserve leather.

Please keep us posted, i'm book marking this.

Just used the Dial Marula soap again. Decided to try a lesser mix. Not so milky looking. Disappointed. Expulsion was slower and not as good a clean out prep for the colon tube. Next time I'll go richer on the mix.

I'll use even more soap in the water than my first try.

If anybody tries the Dial Marula body wash please let us know your opinion.

Happy sudsing!

I tried a search for "Dial Marula soap ingredients" and couldn't find a list of what's in the soap...

I also did a search for the ingredients in Ivory soap and got this right away :

Ingredients. Ivory bar soap (classic) contains: sodium tallowate, sodium cocoate or sodium palm kernelate, water, sodium chloride, sodium silicate, magnesium sulfate, and fragrance. The soap has a determined pH value: 9.5.

Interesting all the sodium items in Ivory - wonder if that's was causes the cramps I love so much...

Without ANY research at all I can say that sodium chloride is ordinary table salt and magnesium sulfate is Epsom Salt. A well known proven and effective laxative.

Sodium tallowate is the natural sodium that occurs in tallow.

Tallow is made from animal fat and has been a standard ingredient in many kinds of soap for more than a century

Without ANY research at all I can say that sodium chloride is ordinary table salt and magnesium sulfate is Epsom Salt. A well known proven and effective laxative.

Sodium tallowate is the natural sodium that occurs in tallow.

Tallow is made from animal fat and has been a standard ingredient in many kinds of soap for more than a century

Tallow is to beef as Lard is to pork. It is fat.

Tallow is specifically BEEF fat. It comes from fat that covers the internal organs and muscles.

Tallow used to be used by McDonalds to cook their french fries which made them so delicious, but the fact that tallow is animal fat gave it a bad rep, so they went to of all things. . . . . . wait for it . . . . . . canola oil blend (whatever that means), which is MUCH worse for you and has none of the health benefits of tallow.

The public sure is STUPID.

For what it is worth, the Marula tree grows to a great height in north eastern parts of Southern Africa and Mozambique. It is a very beautiful tree, with a very large trunk diameter, and has many uses. It bears a large nut, from which the oil is extracted, and has been for hundreds of years by indigenous peoples, and used for many purposes, medicinal and otherwise (brewing a liquor).The oil is pure and pleasant, and if I was satisfied that it was unadulterated, would regard it as quite safe, pleasant, and beneficial.

It is a favorite food of the African Elephant, and thereby which hangs a tale. In the early part of the flowering season, the elephants digest huge numbers of the nuts, which ferment in the gut, and the elephants become drunk, and behave in a most humorous and entertaining manner.

There is also a “designer” cream liqueur, rather like Baileys, the Irish one, Called Marula Cream, which uses Marula distilled liquor, rather than Irish Whisky.

I personally would have no qualms about using a soap with Marula oil for an enema. However, I suspect that in a commercially made soap,the amount of Marula oil it contains would be very very small.

I wait to hear any comments from those who have tried it, but if you can recognize the difference when having an enema with it, you must have, as they say in wine circles, a “very discerning nose”

Delia

Here is everything you need to know about marula:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclerocarya_birrea

It's really nothing special.

McDonalds went to vegetable oil on french fries rather than tallow because of pressure from vegetarians who wanted to have something they could eat at McDs. Every carnivore has lost the joy of "old style" FFs.

Why in Lucifer's good name would anybody who is vegetarian or vegan ever go to McDonalds or any other fast food burger place??????? Anyone who is vegan or vegetarian deserves whatever self imposed food problem they inflict upon themselves.

McDonalds fell prey to the wrong audience.

Oh well, guess I started something of a controversy with this post. Not my intention at all. Some Klysmos are adventurous, others not. In my defense, I had a good experience with it thinking I would share that.

I am also old enough to know that grandma's and great grandma's prepared enemas using lye soap. Why? Because that's what they had or made themselves. For those who do not know, lye in stronger concentrations dissolves tissue. Human tissue. Yup.. it's still made and sold today, if you want to try some. Frankly, I'll pass on that one, but do not recall anything about lye soap enema problems attributable to the soap.

I am also old enough to know that grandma's and great grandma's prepared enemas using lye soap.

My grandmother was born in 1892 and was an enema affectionado. My dad told me all the kids got an enema every Saturday night. That said, I don't remember her ever using anything more than water. She did use a strong lye soap called fels naptha but only on clothes. I am familiar with lyes as I use it industrially. You could easily do serious or fatal damage using anything that strong.

My grandmother was born in 1892 and was an enema affectionado. My dad told me all the kids got an enema every Saturday night. That said, I don't remember her ever using anything more than water. She did use a strong lye soap called fels naptha but only on clothes. I am familiar with lyes as I use it industrially. You could easily do serious or fatal damage using anything that strong.

I seem to recall being told to wash with Fels Naptha soap for poison ivy/oak - whether it actually helped or not I don't know.

"Fels-Naptha is a brand of bar-style laundry soap that is currently manufactured by the Dial Corporation. It's used primarily for pre-treating laundry stains. It's also believed to be helpful for treating poison ivy and other skin-irritating conditions. Fels-Naptha soap was first created by Fels & Company of Philadelphia in the late 19th century."

I seem to recall being told to wash with Fels Naptha soap for poison ivy/oak - whether it actually helped or not I don't know.

"Fels-Naptha is a brand of bar-style laundry soap that is currently manufactured by the Dial Corporation. It's used primarily for pre-treating laundry stains. It's also believed to be helpful for treating poison ivy and other skin-irritating conditions. Fels-Naptha soap was first created by Fels & Company of Philadelphia in the late 19th century."

My wife always uses Fels after working in the garden. She gets poison ivy just walking by it when it's windy and swears by Fels. I see from a Wikipedia: As naphtha is no longer an ingredient, the product is no longer a cancer risk. The newly formulated product is still used to remove urushiol, the oil associated with poison ivy and poison oak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fels-Naptha

Once the soap is made, there is no lye left in it.

It consumed in the saponification reaction.

Once the soap is made, there is no lye left in it.

It consumed in the saponification reaction.

What Switchable Susie said.

The lye becomes irrelevant after a certain amount of time. That is why it must "cure" after being cut.

@MissStress

That makes NO sense. If the formula for the soap is correct, the lye is completely spent in the formation of soap. None remains.

If excess lye is used, it will remain and make the soap caustic. It will damage living tissue. Time is not involved. "rest" is not involved.

If there is lye remaining after the soap is made, the wrong amounts of ingredients have been used.

So called lye-heavy soap should not be used because it is caustic to skin.

When you make soap using dangerous chemicals like lye (sodium hydroxide), you have to know what you are doing.

I tried Dial white bar soap, didn’t like it too much burn! I’ll just stay with good old Ivory.

Don't think I would used Dial white bar - that's what they had me wash with in the hospital before my heart surgery because it's anti-bacterial...