Curved bars are less likely to break off their corners. From a profit standpoint, curved bars contain slightly less soap than completely rectangular bars with the same dimensions. Bars with sharp corners (e.g. Ivory Soap) are quickly rounded off anyway when used.
A bar of soap, when put in a microwave becomes distorted by air trapped inside the soap expanding and creating lumps.
that depends on what kind of soap it is
No, you cannot use bar soap in place of powdered soap when washing clothes - unless you are washing by hand. Powdered and liquid soaps are designed to disperse quickly into the wash water, bar soaps will not do that. After the washing process, bar soap may remain as a bar (although a bit smaller) and then the rinse steps will not be effective at removing residual soap.
Any soap that is formed into a solid block. Commonly called bar soap in the US.
Liquid soap is made to mix with water faster than bar soap. Therefore can break up the molecules of fat faster. However if bar of soap was swished about in very hot water it would form a washing up water just about equal to the liquid soap. This was the way we did it in the 1930's using a small wire basket just big enough to take the bar of soap.
Soap shaped as bar
- Liquid soap (a soap prepared with potassium hydroxide) cannot be turned in solid soap. It is prepared especially to be liquid.- Melted soap (prepared with sodium hydroxide) can be solidified after adding a small quantity of sodium chloride and by cooling to room temperature.
Soap is a mixture.
liquid soap is more expensive...plus bar soap lasts longer...
liquid soap is better because who wants to use someone old nasty bar soap with all of that sick sweat for other people not me
yes
a carving into a bar of soap
Drunken and bubbleless. Barred soap, check the bar's soap list
A bar of soap isn't in liquid form, so shouldn't be a problem.
One bar of Ivory soap.
A bar of soap, when put in a microwave becomes distorted by air trapped inside the soap expanding and creating lumps.
that depends on what kind of soap it is