diff --git a/requests_html.py b/requests_html.py
index 7964625..82a72c2 100644
--- a/requests_html.py
+++ b/requests_html.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class BaseParser:
"""`lxml `_ representation of the
:class:`Element ` or :class:`HTML `.
"""
- return soup_parse(self.html)
+ return soup_parse(self.html, features='html.parser')
@property
def text(self) -> _Text: