Why is soap so messy?”
Soap is nothing more that little bundles of non polar fatty acids (they used to make soap out of tallow – fat – and lye) attached to polar glycerol heads. Infact the formation of these compounds is known as “soaponification” As like dissolves like, soap basically bridges nonpolar oils and greases with polar substances such as water. Dirt and grime tend to be these nonpolar oils and particles that accumulate on us, surfaces, etc. and with application of soap the oil with get wicked up by soap’s fatty acids chains. However there needs be water to complete the productivity of soap. As water enters this picture, nonpolar fattychains and grease molecules want to avoid polar water, while polar glycerol heads tend to interact with the water. As such micelles are formed in which the soap molecures essentially create spheres with the polar glycerol heads on the outside towards the water and trapping dirt and grime on the inside with the long fatty chains. This orientation favors an increase in
