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I'm assuming he's talking about toilet soap, not liquid soap. Both are surfactants, but I suppose, still behave a bit differently. >Consequently, many antibact
by class4behavior 7y ago
I'm assuming he's talking about toilet soap, not liquid soap. Both are surfactants, but I suppose, still behave a bit differently.
>Consequently, many antibacterial products are basically just an expensive version of soap in terms of how they act on viruses.
In that case, this part would be wrong. You use up toilet soap a lot faster than liquid soap, especially if the dosages of the liquid are managed efficiently.
- jplayer01 7y ago> I'm assuming he's talking about toilet soap, not liquid soap. ... what's toilet soap and how does it differ from liquid soap?
- class4behavior 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap
- buckminster 7y agoEdit: this is nonsense. See comment below. That says Toilet Soap is any soap used domestically for cleaning. So liquid soap is toilet soap. What do you mean by it?
- class4behavior 7y agoYou didn't even read through the table of contents, nor the initial summary. Both soaps have their own, named subsection, while in the abstract you'll find a succinct explanation which will make sense once you've read that liquid soap is a detergent. >Soap is created by mixing fats and oils with a base, as opposed to detergent which is created by combining chemical compounds in a mixer.
- buckminster 7y agoSorry, the article is broken. I don't see a toc on mobile and the section on liquid soap has been misplaced at the end of the history section. Thanks for the clarification.
- jplayer01 7y agoYou're getting it wrong and you're confusing everybody. Detergent isn't non-toilet soap. Toilet soap can also be liquid soap. It took me all day to figure this out and understand what you were talking about. Under toilet soap: > In a domestic setting, "soap" usually refers to what is technically called a toilet soap, used for household and personal cleaning. I'm not sure if that also includes detergent like dish detergent, but it's certainly not non-toilet soap. Under non-toilet soap: > Soaps are key components of most lubricating greases and thickeners. Greases are usually emulsions of calcium soap or lithium soap and mineral oil.[5] Many other metallic soaps are also useful, including those of aluminium, sodium, and mixtures thereof. Such soaps are also used as thickeners to increase the viscosity of oils. In ancient times, lubricating greases were made by the addition of lime to olive oil.[6] > METALLIC SOAPS ARE COMPOUNDS OF ALKALINE metals or heavy metals and monobasic carboxylic acids containing from 7 to 22 carbon atoms. The water-insoluble metallic soaps are of particular interest to the coatings industry, although potassium and lithium soaps have limited water solubility. They can also be lubricants for machines and you don't want to use any of this for cleaning anything at home.
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- redblacktree 7y agoNot OP, but I'm guessing he means soap generally available in a bathroom. (toilet) Which would, of course, include a variety of soaps.
- nicoburns 7y agoI'm pretty sure they're talking about solid bars of soap.
- adrianmonk 7y agoI don't see how his statement about antibacterial products is wrong. My grocery store, for example, sells hand soap in liquid pump dispensers. Some of these say antibacterial on the label and some of them don't. The antibacterial ones are very similar to the plain ones, except that they contain an ingredient which is of no use against viruses. I think his point is that I have no reason to prefer the antibacterial one when my goal is to kill this virus. I'd say he's 100% right about that.