L4sBot@lemmy.worldB to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps.www.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1217arrow-down1external-linkTIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps.www.cnn.comL4sBot@lemmy.worldB to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarei_supposelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoIsn’t soap supposed to kill all that stuff? Wouldn’t germs die when in contact with it for too long?
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoSurfactants effectively kill many varieties of microbes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166552/
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThat reply is wrong, surfactants effectively kill many varieties of microbes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166552/
minus-squarePsaldorn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoSoap emperor here: can confirm. But mostly I let my soapologists deal with the details.
Isn’t soap supposed to kill all that stuff? Wouldn’t germs die when in contact with it for too long?
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Surfactants effectively kill many varieties of microbes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166552/
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That reply is wrong, surfactants effectively kill many varieties of microbes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166552/
Soap emperor here: can confirm. But mostly I let my soapologists deal with the details.