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by Janet Spencer Come along with Tidbits as we scrub up! HOW DOES SOAP WORK? • Oil and water don’t mix. They repel each other like opposite ends of a magnet. Your skin secretes oil called sebum. Splash water on your skin, and the oil repels the water and nothing gets very clean. That’s where soap comes in. But before we discuss why soap works, let us discuss what soap is. • Basically speaking, soap is oil plus alkali. For centuries, that meant fat plus lye. Colonists and pioneers saved fat scraps from their butcher blocks and dinner tables. They also saved the ashes from their fireplace, which they placed in a barrel with a spigot at the bottom. Water, poured over the ashes and left to soak, would form lye which was then drained off from the bottom. The fat scraps would be rendered in a vat over a fire, then the lye would be added. After much stirring and cooking, a chemical reaction would take place and soap was the result. Too much lye, and the soap would be harsh on the skin. Too much fat, and the soap would be greasy. • The newly formed soap would then be poured into boxes to harden and cure for several months. But why does a combination of fat and ash carry off dirt? Let us get out our microscopes. (continued next page)

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