Comments on: Anti-Bacterial Soap Inhibits Testosterone Production

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:45:50 +0000

They still don’t list this stuff on the product?!

By: CaliTom

CaliTom — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:53:25 +0000

I’ve been using Dial body wash for men for a couple of years now and about 3 months ago I noticed my body hair was thinning. I’ve always had an abundant supply of body fuzz so it was alarming to realize that about half of it was missing. I tried looking up the causes on the internet and found it could be a wide range of things, even cancer. My doctor wasn’t too concerned and thought it was something called “telogen effluvium”. I thought my hair loss was related to my medicine to control my blood pressure and enlarged prostate but the doctor thought not. I’m thinking it could be the soap!!! I’ll stop using it immediately. Thanks to everyone for sharing.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:04:12 +0000

I believe you got this all wrong. It was found that triclocarban ENHANCES the action of testosterone. It is hormonal disruption but this time different – it’s enhancing not blocking.

By: patnjacky

patnjacky — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:32:35 +0000

hi all curently I am trying to find out is there a list of antibacterial bar soaps that still clean but don’t strip away our testosterone? a lot of the other soaps seem to leave that nasty film on my skin but good ole dial lol leaves me sqeaky clean lol and apparently – some testosterone.thanks in advance for your replies

By: rocketdoug

rocketdoug — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:38:12 +0000

Maybe this soap is the trick to slowing down the asian longhorn beetles and emerald ash borers that are eating our trees.

By: http://happydalehobby.blogspot.com/

http://happydalehobby.blogspot.com/ — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:01:39 +0000

Wow. Yet another reason for the handmade soap. ;)

By: TALA

TALA — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:57:17 +0000

I been using Dial bar soaps (Dial For Men, and other Dial antibacterial soap) for many months, well over a year now. My sex drive/Libido is at an all time low (no kidding). Been trying to figure out all possible causes, reasons for it…yet to no avail.

Help: does anyone have a LIST of those specific products from Dial Corp, that contain the offending ingredient/chemical. Many Thanks!

By: RHB

RHB — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:06:01 +0000

Ironically another study years ago reported antibacterial soaps were little more effective than ordinary soap.
So one company sells us the testosterone inhibiting soap and another sells viagara. hmm…

By: TheDane

TheDane — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:53:08 +0000

Why would it still be legal to use these chemicals?

I guess we gotta vote with our cash…

Kim:)

By: AbiLogic

AbiLogic — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:35:44 +0000

He-he… I don’t see this products in the our shop-markets and can’t use any antibacterial soap production.

By: John P.

John P. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:49:07 +0000

Sarah,

The dial soap that I have specifically lists triclocarban on it. Both the bar soap, and the foaming hand soap. So, if you don’t see it in the list the stuff you have is probably ok.

John

By: John P.

John P. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:46:50 +0000

hehehe

I’m with you Mark!

John

By: Steve Elliott

Steve Elliott — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:43:40 +0000

Stands out of the way of the stampeding women rushing to get the soap for their other halves!

Isn’t there a case here for over analysing. Anything and everything that we seem to test these days has something bad associated with it. What happened to the days when we just got on with things.

By: Goran Giertz

Goran Giertz — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:18:28 +0000

Thanks John. This is unfortunately the reality of our lives what we think is good is actually bad and vice versa. Eat healthy, exercise and do all those right things and then the “soap” that keeps you “clean” causes problems.

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:00:02 +0000

I cannot believe this. I have Dial soap in my bathroom but the ingredients did not list this. I’m thinking about doing a blog about this now.

By: Mark Konen

Mark Konen — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:52:48 +0000

As an email subscriber to OMB you can’t even imagine how pissed off I got reading about the anti-microbial soap’s effect on testosterone production. I am convinced this is the most valuable chemical on the planet as everyone keeps trying to “take it away” from us. Bastards!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:52:18 +0000

It was interesting to know about these stuff, since I was before writing this comment a Zest Consumer, but now NOT anymore