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I've seen it labeled as such in soap. This is a funny way to think of sodium hydroxide. Sodium hydroxide is a strong base and therefore causes fats to "saponify" into soap. This is a process that basically turns oils into salts and thus produces the properties of soap. Without this process oil is not soap. I.e. it lacks the property of binding to oils (dirt) and rinsing off with water. Another property of this process is the solidification of some oils. Therefore it is a little bit like a "binder".

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