Soap

Aajonus dated the period of predominantly coconut-based soaps to roughly 50 to 100 years before his teaching, depending on the context he was describing. In different passages he cited different proportions, ranging from 70 to 100 percent of all soaps, including body soaps, shampoos, and laundry products, having contained coconut cream or coconut oil. He described this as the dominant standard before the economics of chemical manufacturing made petroleum-derived alternatives cheaper to produce.

The specific reasons coconut-based soaps were displaced were purely logistical and financial. To produce coconut soap required planting and cultivating palm trees, waiting for them to mature, harvesting the large husks, stripping the husk down to reach the nut, breaking open the nut, extracting the meat, grinding it, running it through a juicer to separate the pulp from the cream, handling the fermented waste products, and managing all of the labor-hours that process required. Aajonus was explicit that the industry realized it could synthesize chemical soaps from petroleum and kerosene, acetates, and other industrial byproducts more cheaply and with less logistical complexity. He viewed this as a purely profit-driven substitution with no consideration for the health of the people using the product.

Prior to coconut becoming widely available through shipping, Aajonus noted that soap was made by rendering lard, boiling it with lye, and that this was the original body soap. He also described pure coconut oil used alone or combined with a small amount of lye as what everyone used once global shipping made coconut oil readily available. He summarized the historical sequence as: rendered lard and pig fat first, then coconut oil and coconut cream, then chemical petroleum products.

He was emphatic that this shift was ongoing and worsening. He stated that soap was once "98%" coconut-based for body soaps and shampoos and that now it was "rarely" possible to find a coconut-based commercial product. He said the industry "does not give a shit about your health" and that the decision was "about profit, strictly."

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Aajonus described every commercial soap on the market as toxic. His indictment covered several specific categories of harm.

First, he said that most modern soaps contain steroids and that steroid is a product of formaldehyde. He asked whether people wanted formaldehyde entering the body through the skin, and extended this concern to toothpaste, makeup, and facial products, all of which he grouped together as "contaminants everywhere."

Second, he described the chemical solvents in modern soaps as "rough industrial solvents" going into the body rather than food substances like coconut. He framed this as a substitution of an edible, nutritionally integrated cleansing fat with a petrochemical industrial degreaser.

Third, he pointed out that commercial soaps destroy bacteria on the skin. Because he regarded skin bacteria as protective and essential to health, using soaps that strip bacteria from the skin was, in his framework, actively harmful. He argued that people were "washing off" beneficial bacteria that would otherwise handle functions like dissolving dead skin cells and managing the skin's biological environment.

He stated that every time a person uses kitchen soap, detergent, or ammonia, they are breathing antibacterials that destroy the bacterial environment inside the body as well, because these chemical vapors enter through the respiratory tract and have systemic effects.

He also pointed out that soaps eliminate the fat layer from the skin, and that the skin is "the last place on the body to get any fat because it's all used internally first." A person who uses commercial soaps every day is stripping an already-limited protective fat layer from the organ through which 90 percent of poisons are supposed to leave the body. If that fat layer is absent, the body cannot move toxins effectively through the skin.

In his newsletter, he specifically identified two toxins found in antibacterial soaps, triclosan and triclocarban, which he described as endocrine-disrupting toxins. He noted that the Natural Resources Defense Council had announced a lawsuit against the FDA for failing to regulate these chemicals. He provided a list of products containing these toxins, including Dial Liquid Soap, Softsoap Antibacterial Liquid Hand Soap, Tea Tree Therapy Liquid Soap, Provon Soap, Clearasil Daily Face Wash, Dermatologica Skin Purifying Wipes, Clean and Clear Foaming Facial Cleanser, DermaKleen Antibacterial Lotion Soap, Naturade Aloe Vera 80 Antibacterial Soap, CVS Antibacterial Soap, and Phisoderm Antibacterial Skin Cleanser. He also identified triclosan-containing dental care products including Colgate Total, Breeze Triclosan Mouthwash, Reach Antibacterial Toothbrush, and Janina Diamond Whitening Toothpaste.

He was openly contemptuous of the antibacterial soap category as a whole, calling it "anti-human soap" because humans are composed of more bacterial cells than any other type of cell. He cited a ratio of 150 bacterial genes to every one human cell, and stated "we are 99.5% bacteria." Using antibacterial soap is, in his framing, using a product specifically designed to destroy what you are made of.

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Aajonus explained in detail why coconut cream works as a soap in a way that petroleum-derived products do not, drawing on the molecular composition of the coconut itself.

He stated that 92 to 93 percent of the fats in a coconut are water-soluble, and only 7 to 8 percent are oil-soluble. This water-soluble fat fraction is what makes coconut cream effective as a cleanser. Because it is water-soluble, it can dissolve and carry water-based contamination and debris. It also ferments naturally, producing alcohols as a byproduct of that fermentation, and Aajonus noted that oils do not ferment in the way that coconut cream does. That fermentation-produced alcohol content enhances the cleansing action.

He illustrated the physical cleansing power of coconut cream using a metal demonstration. He described using a piece of plated tin and explained that if you apply butter, cream, olive oil, coconut oil, flax oil, or safflower oil to the metal surface, it takes anywhere from 24 hours to a week for the metal to begin to disintegrate. If you apply coconut cream to that same piece of metal, it turns gray within an hour. He used this as direct evidence that coconut cream is actively pulling metal out of materials it contacts, and he extended this principle to the body, stating that coconut cream rips metal out of the body and dissolves it.

This is why he regarded coconut cream as essential to any detoxification protocol involving heavy metals. He described it as "a very important part of our detox diet" and specified that it helps dissolve lymphatic congestion and can dissolve "anything."

He also contrasted coconut cream explicitly with coconut oil, noting that they are not the same substance and do not behave the same way in the body. Coconut cream, being predominantly water-soluble fat, is a cleaning fat. Coconut oil, being predominantly oil-soluble, is more like the pressed oils and behaves mainly as a solvent in the body, making it approximately 90 percent cleansing and providing little stabilization or lubrication.

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Aajonus's personal soap practice was based entirely on fermented coconut cream. He described preparing it by taking coconut cream that he had not eaten in time and allowing it to ferment by leaving it unrefrigerated in the bathroom until it turned pink. He used this fermented cream to brush his teeth, wash his body, wash his hair, and clean dishes.

He gave a specific formula for using it as a shampoo and body wash: one ounce of fermented coconut cream to eight ounces of water, shaken to dissolve it in warm water. He described this as both his shampoo and his soap for everything.

He noted in one passage that he would sometimes use this soap on dishes, describing a thin oily film that could be removed with warm water. He also noted that when he used a sea sponge to clean dishes with coconut cream, the oil did not transfer to other surfaces being cleaned, attributing this to some quality of the sponge that absorbs the fat. He called this "amazing" and used it as an illustration of what he saw as the intelligence of natural materials used in their raw state.

He also mentioned in another passage that after coconut cream is applied to the skin, it is slightly tacky at first, and that as it is absorbed, the stickiness goes away. He cautioned that leaving coconut cream on the skin too long will dry it out significantly because of its strong cleansing action. If the skin becomes dry from coconut cream application, he recommended applying the primal facial body care cream from his recipe book, or rubbing a thin layer of coconut cream back into the skin.

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Aajonus made reference to a solid coconut soap made from raw coconut oil and lye, which he described as something produced under his supervision, and which his girlfriend in Thailand used as her soap. He qualified this by saying that lye is the ingredient that hardens the coconut oil into a solid bar. He regarded this soap as far superior to any commercial alternative. He described it as "not too dry" for a soap containing lye, acknowledged that lye is drying by nature, and said it was acceptable for people who preferred a bar soap rather than fermented coconut cream. His preference remained fermented coconut cream, but he endorsed the coconut-oil-and-lye soap as a legitimate option.

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In some contexts, particularly when asked what he used to wash his hair, Aajonus described an alternative to any form of soap. He said he would blend one egg, three ounces of vegetable juice, two ounces of milk, and one tablespoon of honey, apply it to his dry hair, and use that as his washing mixture. In other contexts he described putting straight milk on his hair when he did not have access to his usual blend. He said he does not use soaps at all, and that filtered water is his first preference for body washing.

For hair conditioning that remained slightly dry after washing, he described taking a small amount of butter on his palm, rubbing it there, spraying his hair lightly, and then rubbing the butter in.

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In a written exchange, Aajonus was asked whether Biokleen laundry liquid was still acceptable to use after the manufacturer changed the formula to include sodium lauryl sulfate, which Biokleen described as a plant-based surfactant. Aajonus rejected this framing entirely. He said that it does not matter that sodium lauryl sulfate was once part of a plant, because the extraction process uses gasoline to dissolve the plant material and then subjects it to a chemical rendering process. The end product is no longer a natural substance in any meaningful sense. He stated he had already purchased about a four-year supply of the original Biokleen formula and was not in a position to search for an alternative at that time.

When pressed for an alternative for laundry, Aajonus suggested fermented coconut cream. His formula for making it appropriately fermented for this purpose involved adding one tablespoon of lemon juice to one cup of coconut cream and allowing it to stand in the heat. He did not complete the specific standing time in the passage available, but the context indicates that the lemon juice is used to accelerate or confirm the fermentation.

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A significant portion of Aajonus's teaching on soap arose not from discussions of bathing or hygiene but from his broader framework for understanding viruses. He used the concept of soap as a primary analogy for explaining what viruses actually are, what they do, and why they are not infectious in the conventional medical sense.

He described viruses as protein bodies that function exactly as soaps do. They are manufactured by cells, not by external organisms. They are solvents and degreasers that are chemically attracted to specific toxic material and dissolve it. Each cell, he said, contains over 300,000 varieties of virus, which means over 300,000 different formulas for specific soaps, each targeting a particular type of tissue or compound for dissolution. He compared the specificity of a virus to the specificity of a solvent: "There is nothing more specific than a virus."

He asked rhetorically whether soap self-replicates, and used this as his central argument against the contagion model of viral illness. He said that claiming viruses are contagious because they are found in every cell is equivalent to claiming laundry soap is contagious because it is found in every laundry room in Chicago. The virus is manufactured by the cell as a cleaning agent in response to toxic conditions. It does not come from outside the body and spread. It is produced internally by cells in response to damage that bacteria, parasites, or fungi cannot address, typically because the contamination is a chemical toxin that kills those organisms when they attempt to consume it.

He extended this analogy to describe what happens when viruses are the cleanup mechanism. Just as cleaning a garage floor with a solvent leaves a large volume of diluted toxic fluid that must be disposed of, when the body cleans itself using viral solvents rather than bacteria or parasites, the result is a large amount of diluted toxic fluid dispersed throughout the system. This is less efficient and more symptomatic than the bacterial or parasitic route, which reduces the volume of waste material dramatically. A parasite can eat 100 times its weight in 24 hours and discard only 1 to 5 percent of that as waste, whereas the viral solvent route does not reduce the total volume of contamination, it only disperses it in fluid throughout the body.

He described AIDS and Ebola as man-made viral constructions rather than naturally arising contagious diseases, but the central point of his analogy remained consistent: viruses are not alive, they cannot self-replicate, they are not contagious, and they are functionally equivalent to body-manufactured soaps.

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Aajonus described the body as producing its own internal soaps through the processing of fats into cholesterol. The liver makes bile, bile digests fats, and from those broken-down fat molecules the body synthesizes 60 varieties of cholesterol. He organized these into three equal thirds: one third for strengthening and energy, one third for protection and lubrication, and one third for cleansing. The cleansing third functions exactly as a soap or solvent, dissolving accumulated toxins, breaking down contaminated or dead tissue, and clearing the body of debris.

He stated that almost all external soaps, before petroleum replaced natural fats, were made from fats. The body's internal soaps are also made from fats. This is not coincidental in his framework; it reflects the same underlying chemistry. The body makes its cleaning agents from the same class of raw material that was always used to make external cleaning agents.

He described the body's internal production of solvents as an 80-15-5 mixture: 80 percent fats, 15 percent proteins and amino acids, and 5 percent alcohol. The body makes this same formulation by fermenting carbohydrates to produce alcohol, which it then combines with fat and amino acids to create the solvent mixture. This is also why fermented coconut cream functions as it does: the natural fermentation produces the same alcohol component that makes the body's own solvents effective.

He also described pressed oils such as olive oil and flax oil as functioning primarily as solvents inside the body, estimating that 90 percent of pressed oil is converted into cleaning agents rather than used for nutrition, energy, or stabilization. This is why he recommended limiting pressed oils to no more than 20 percent of the diet and no more than one tablespoon daily or five tablespoons in a single meal once a week.

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Aajonus addressed antibacterial soaps as a distinct and particularly harmful category. He stated that the purpose of antibacterial soaps is marketing fear, specifically getting people afraid of everything that comes in and out of the body, so they will purchase products they do not need and which actively harm them.

He pointed out that humans and their evolutionary ancestors have been handling bacteria and fecal matter for millions of years without antibacterial products. He referenced the remains of Lucy as evidence of approximately 4.5 to 5 million years of Homo sapiens existence without soap of any kind. He noted that 100 years ago there was no toilet paper, no outhouses, no antibacterial soap, and that the washing of hands with soap was used almost exclusively for hair, not for the whole body. He described this as normal and healthy, saying that people "stunk" but that it was a good thing and a natural condition.

He dismissed antibacterial soap as "anti-human soap" because, as he repeatedly stated, the human body is composed predominantly of bacteria. Destroying bacteria on and in the body through the use of antibacterial products is destroying the biological substrate that makes human health possible.

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Aajonus noted that until relatively recently in human history, soap was used only on hair because the hair would become thick and matted, and that washing the whole body with soap was extremely rare, typically once a month at most. He connected this pattern to the fact that using soaps every day eliminates the fat level off of the skin, which is already the last tissue in the body to receive fat because internal needs take priority. People with skin problems today, in his view, are suffering in part because daily soap use strips fat from the organ through which 90 percent of toxic elimination is supposed to occur.

He also described the historical use of rendered lard and pig fat as the original soap before coconut oil became widely available, noting that this was a completely natural and effective cleaning substance. He described the coconut era as beginning when transportation allowed coconut oil to be shipped globally, making it accessible enough to become the dominant soap ingredient, and he described the chemical era as beginning when the industrial economy found it more profitable to synthesize cleaning agents from petroleum than to grow and process coconuts.

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In his book, Aajonus stated directly: "All skin oils, soaps and lotions are made with processed oils, 'natural' or not, that smother and make skin toxic as well as lubricate it." He followed this with his fundamental test for topical products: "If you can't eat it, why would you feed it to your skin?" This framing extended his general principle that the skin absorbs what is placed on it and that anything not safe to eat is also not safe to apply topically.

He listed gauze cloth and cheesecloth cleaning as a situation requiring care about soap residue, specifying that new material contains bleach and chemical sizing compounds that are "very toxic" and that cloth must be rinsed in cold water, then hot water, then warm water with a capful of raw vinegar before being used with food. He said not to use soap after the first washing, indicating that any soap residue would contaminate food preparation.

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