tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498062.post113030470901403546..comments2023-08-07T03:28:04.333-04:00Comments on Opinionade: Hah!Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343869580416843625noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498062.post-1130524620289982412005-10-28T14:37:00.000-04:002005-10-28T14:37:00.000-04:00Wow, this is the most informative thing in my enti...Wow, this is the most informative thing in my entire blog. Guess I'm going to have to believe in soap after all.Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04343869580416843625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5498062.post-1130524273670316972005-10-28T14:31:00.000-04:002005-10-28T14:31:00.000-04:00Remember when your primary school science teacher ...Remember when your primary school science teacher would amaze students by mixing water and vegetable oil and letting them seperate? Oil and grease is not polar, water is. Oil on our skin tends to grabs onto dirt like it's its job, so often removing the oil removes the dirt. Soap has polar ends and non-polar ends, so it can serve as a little blanket, wraped nice and tightly around the oil particle, presenting its polar backside to the water, in which the entire little ball of soapy filth can dissolve and be washed down the drain.<BR/><BR/>Anti-bacterial soap just kills the bacteria on the way down the drain, oftentimes doing more harm than good in my opinion, as it introduces antibacterial agents which aren't guaranteed to kill everything. This can be harmful because surviving bacteria become a little stronger having survived the antibacterial agents.<BR/><BR/>How soap works:<BR/>http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/554soap.html<BR/><BR/>Why antibacterial agents can harm:<BR/>http://www.anapsid.org/tooclean.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com