
How Soap Works
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Why Soap Is Better for Washing Your Hands
Soap is better for washing your hands during, well, at all times, but especially during a time like this. In Mesopotamia, people were making soap by mixing an alkali and a fat with heat in water. It has to have gone through saponification to be considered soap,. That we've been doing this, we humans, for at least 5,000 years.
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