Hey LC - I did try the palmolive oxy - however it didn't seem to have any effect on the keratin. It did make me squeaky clean though
. I would guess that the oxygen in palmolive is different for the peroxide (peroxide is 2 parts Hydrogen and 2 parts oxygen - H2O2). I'm not sure what the oxygen in the palmolive is chemically and it may not be as concentrated as it is in peroxide. Initially I tried everything I had in the house and garage to try to dissolve this film of keratin on my skin including tilex, bathroom cleaners, degreasers, ammonia - even mineral spirits and liquid naptha which is a dry cleaning solvent (which the FELS naptha soap used to contain in years past). I eventually found out from the internet that peroxide would dissolve keratin and as soon as it touched my skin, I got some relief. My skin was basically "too tight" from the collagen fibers pulling and the keratin that forms in skin naturally kind of "glued" the fibers down (which I had a severe excess of both collagens and keratins). The peroxide dissolved the keratin on the surface of my skin and exposed some of the fibers and allowed them to move in the skin which temporarily relieved the tension. Repeatedly doing this exposed more fibers and allowed more to move over the course of my condition. Keratin forms a natural protective barrier in skin to keep the tissue from absorbing water and most chemicals. The peroxide has never made my skin dry despite saturating my entire body 7 or 8 times a day for well over 2 years. This verifies (at least to me) that my body simply had an extreme excess of keratins because it has been constantly replaced in my skin over this period of time. I don't think "normal" skin could tolerate using peroxide so much without some adverse side effects like dryness or irritation. And it has never really bleached my hair either, which I would have expected it to do.