L4sBot@lemmy.worldB to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoTIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps.www.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1221arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1216arrow-down1external-linkTIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps.www.cnn.comL4sBot@lemmy.worldB to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarei_suppose@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 years agoIsn’t soap supposed to kill all that stuff? Wouldn’t germs die when in contact with it for too long?
minus-squarecedarmesa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoIf I remember right soap isnt a disinfectant so much as a surfactant which means it makes shit slippery so germs slide off moer easerliest. Dunno though, im just some dude, maybe some soap doctor or soap emperor can chime in.
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoSurfactants effectively kill many varieties of microbes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166552/
minus-squarei_suppose@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoWell, TIL more than one thing!
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoThat reply is wrong, surfactants effectively kill many varieties of microbes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166552/
minus-squarePsaldorn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoSoap emperor here: can confirm. But mostly I let my soapologists deal with the details.
Isn’t soap supposed to kill all that stuff? Wouldn’t germs die when in contact with it for too long?
If I remember right soap isnt a disinfectant so much as a surfactant which means it makes shit slippery so germs slide off moer easerliest. Dunno though, im just some dude, maybe some soap doctor or soap emperor can chime in.
Surfactants effectively kill many varieties of microbes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166552/
Well, TIL more than one thing!
That reply is wrong, surfactants effectively kill many varieties of microbes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166552/
Soap emperor here: can confirm. But mostly I let my soapologists deal with the details.