Comment on Is it okay to wash hands with body soap?
Fermiverse@feddit.de 5 months ago
Soap, beside giving a good smell, has one job. It breaks up the water surface tension to enable it cleaning of the skin surface. Normally the water would not reach the wrinkels of the skin and would not take the contamination off it.
So any soap is good to go. The other stuff in soap like smell and moisture effects don’t matter that much in general and are overrated imoho.
The other stuff in soap like smell and moisture effects don’t matter that much in general and are overrated imoho.
as someone with sensitive skin - hard disagree, you should be glad your hands don't turn bright red and itch for days because you used the wrong soap (that said - it doesn't have to be fancy or expensive, but there's definitely a difference in quality and some soaps will just strip some peoples' skin)
nissenice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I thought a big point of soap is that it can connect with both polar and non-polar molecules. I.e. making it possible for fats “dissolve” in water.
voracitude@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It makes them miscible (able to mix) not soluble (able to dissolve). But yes, you’re exactly right about the mechanism! 🙌
nissenice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nice! Yeah, I knew soluble wasn’t the right word here, thanks for clarifying :)