What human shampoo is safe for animals?
Bathing your pup is a necessity to maintain healthy skin and fur. Vets don’t recommend using human shampoo on dogs. If you are in a pinch and without pup-specific shampoo, Dawn dish soap or baby shampoos from Burt’s Bees and Johnson’s may be used. The use of human products in animal hygiene can be detrimental. Dogs have an alkaline pH on their skins which usually vary between 7. Humans have an acidic pH on our skins of 5. Therefore washing a dog with a human shampoo or soap has a strong possibility of upsetting the pH balance of the skin.