Vegetable Oil Soap

I've just come across some soap that calls itself vegetable oil soap.

Has anyone any experience of this in an enema before?

It is a bar of soap, not liquid.

I liked it when I washed my hands with it. It left a nice oily residue that felt like it was protecting my skin.

Sounds a lot like my experience using Dove Cleansing Bars in enemas. Two-thirds cleansing crème, they claim. They work fine for me, but I don't use them to shower with; too much slipperiness in the tub and chance of falling.

Soaps (true soaps, not detergents) are made from vegetable oil and/or tallow. Tallow is more often found in plain soaps, like laundry soaps.

Calling a soap ‘vegetable oil soap’ implies that it’s made without tallow. It doesn’t mean there is vegetable oil in the finished soap (though there may be a small amount), just that vegetable oil is one of the ingredients, along with alkali, water, colour, perfume etc. Commonly used oils are olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, and palm kernel oil.

Thanks one eyes. That's a really useful description. I didn't know any of that.

So, to the pertinent question. Would this soap be safe to use in an enema?

Some times i just use an enema of pure vegetable oil, works real well. After you need to do a couple good rinse enemas to get all the oil out of you or you can have an oily mess.

Thanks one eyes. That's a really useful description. I didn't know any of that.

So, to the pertinent question. Would this soap be safe to use in an enema?

It’s as safe as any soap. Castile soap, regularly recommended and sold for enema purposes, is a vegetable oil soap (traditionally made from olive oil).

Yes, like One-eyes stated, you can use it interchangeably with other soaps you would use in enema solutions. Dr. Bronner's is now made with hempseed oil, so it also classifies as a vegetable oil soap.

Vegetable soaps are often marketed as such so that vegans can feel comfortable in using them. Palma-Christie is a style of soap traditionally made with lard as the fat. Many soaps will blend animal and vegetable fats.

I've made soap a few times. The most basic formula is just fat and lye. Other common additions are glycerin, vitamin E (prevents rancidity), perfuming agents, milk or milk solids, like essential oils, colorants, and exfoliants (sandy stuff like coarsly ground apricot pits). Those (aside from maybe the abrasive exfioliants) are safe enema stuff you'll typically find in soaps marketed as "natural."

Compare that short list with the complex chemical concoction that makes up most commercial shampoos.

Read the lables or inquire of the maker what the ingredients are to help you decide what you are comfortable using.

Just as an update I finally got round to using the soap in an enema yesterday. I took a series of enemas with a two litre soap enema where is sloshed the bar around in the water until it went white. This went in quite easily using a double balloon nozzle. I held it for ten minutes with little difficulty and then expelled. It was one of the best expulsions I have had. Basically it all came out in one big gush. I usually struggle to expel it all in one go but that was very satisfying.

I followed this with a stronger three litre solution. I lay on my back in the tub to take this one. It was a bit more cramp this time round and I could feel it working quite deeply. A bit of massage and slowing the flow ensured it all went in though. I still managed to hold this in for ten minutes again and was quite comfortably able to wander to the toilet to expel. Again, it was a very simple expulsion with most of it coming out in one big blast, followed by a few more sizeable gushes.

I finished up with a four litre salt water rinse. This went in remarkably well too, suggesting that I had taken a pretty good cleanout. Overall, I can recommend this soap.