What was a problem that soap can solve?

Answer 1

Soap can remove oils by attaching to the hydrocarbon chains, and then being attracted to water molecules, allowing the washed away water to have the oils attached to it. It can disinfect by killing pathogens (germs). It can lower surface tension, allowing things to wash easier.

Answer 2

Soap (called detergent by the industry that makes it) is used as a cleaning agent. The term soap is a somewhat general term, and it is interchanged with the term detergent in lots of cases. Anyway, the key is that soaps contain chemicals that attach themselves to dirt, oils and greases so that they can be washed off or out of materials with water. Generally speaking, soaps are often designed to work with water, and the things in soap mitigate the effects of water's surface tension. This coupled to the way things in soap "hook" themselves to "stuff" in material, they allow that "stuff" to be carried away by the water.

There is a whole industry that manufactures and markets soaps, and there is a great deal more to learn about this common product. A link can be found below to allow the curious person to begin an investigation into detergents.Also soap was invented in 1811.

Answer 3

to wash thy body and hands. and to not smell while talking to people.

Answer 4

Soap is created through the process of saponification. This process is a reaction between lye and some type of fat or oil.

Answer 5

Soap is saphonication of hydrocarbons and have the ability to free the dirt in fibres or the tissues.It can also kill microbes that emit foul odor and clean it from the surface of anybody.

Answer 6

Bad personal hygiene, for instance.