An emulsifying agent that facilitates the dispersal of an insoluble substance in water. The process of manufacturing soap is known as saponification and involves breaking down fat using a BASE to produce glycerol and soap – which is the salt of a...

Materials for cleaning which are derived from fats and oils by treatment (saponification) with hydroxide. In hard waters the hardness causing ion (calcium or magnesium) may precipitate the...

It is a loss of soap to wash the ass’s head. (Spanish) One does not argue at the stream whether his soap will lather....

Soap is a surfactant used in conjunction with water for washing and cleaning that historically comes in solid bars but also in the form of a thick liquid. Historically, soap has been composed of sodium (soda ash) or potassium (potash) salts of fatty...

SOAPS Sunday, December 15, 2002 All My Children: Adam supported Liza when she was arrested for Mia's attempted murder. Simone wanted nothing more to do with Frank after he confessed to being behind the camera that recorded her brother's overdose. Anna was...

No soap Some people still aren't washing their hands, study says Scripps Howard News Service, Associated Press Tuesday, September 19, 2000 Did you wash your hands? Like millions of kids sent back to the sink before countless meals, 95% of...

By 1 p.m. on Oct. 22, the cast and crew of the hipster Web sitcom The Burg had assembled at 309 Grand Street, No. 2B, in Brooklyn—some guy’s apartment, friend of a friend, cast members weren’t all sure who—to shoot part of an upcoming episode....

A popular new Thai soap opera about love and infidelity in the high skies has angered Thai Airways flight attendants who demanded Monday that the show be canceled for casting their profession in an unrealistic and immoral light."The Air Hostess War," which broadcast its first...

This essay is about how soap is made and how it cleans our hands.