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Not that it particularly matters because it sounds like all soap is pretty effective, but I wonder if a grease fighting dish soap would be the most effective of
by oxymoran 7y ago
Not that it particularly matters because it sounds like all soap is pretty effective, but I wonder if a grease fighting dish soap would be the most effective of all. Don’t mind me, I’ll just be doing dishes for the next few months.
- undersuit 7y agoSoaps are salts from fats and metals, you could run a panel on lithium grease(actually a soap), sodium and potassium soaps, and maybe something crazy like calcium. Just don't use your hands as the substrate for the experiment.
- stronglikedan 7y agoAlternate soaps to avoid dry hands, since dish soap will strip the oils. Tangentially, if you are handling raw chicken, and then try to use antibacterial soap, it cannot penetrate the grease from the chicken. The trick is to use dish soap first, followed by a second wash with antibacterial soap.
- phonypc 7y agoSkip the second wash. Antibacterial soap is worthless at best and potentially harmful.
- mindcrime 7y agoNot sure exactly how it plays out with the virus killing aspect, but things like Dawn dish detergent contain a pretty effective surfactant. Enough so that, back in my firefighting days, we used that stuff as a "poor man's class A foam." Especially on brush fires.