Hubble-bubble Bath!

Guys, let me introduce to you the meaning behind hubble-bubble bath! It is actually talking about how useful soap is to sweep away the dirt from our body. In the mean of organic chemistry, soaps are sodium or potassium salts of long-chain fatty acids with 12 to 18 carbon atoms per molecule. The general formula of soap is RCOO^-Na⁺ or RCOO^-K⁺. Diagram below shows the two equivalent formulae of sodium stearate which is a type of soap.



 

Soap acts as a cleansing agent to remove grease and dirt. In the past, soap was made by mixing animal fats with alkaline wood ashes. However, nowadays, to reduce the cost, soaps can be made by hydrolysing animal fats and vegetable oils under alkaline condition whereby this reaction is known as saponification. The animal fats that most commonly used are fats from cows and goats whereas the vegetable oils often used are palm oil, olive oil and coconut oil.

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Bath soap

You may be wondering how to make your own organic soap instead of buying it from the market. Making soap on your own is cheaper. Besides, you can modify the ingredients in your soap according to your wish. For instance, you can make a deodorizing organic soap, skin-softening organic soap, or scented organic soaps. Most importantly, it is just some easy steps for you to follow. Thwvideo below shows you on how to make a homemade soap:

Now comes the interesting part. Do you know that why the bath soap that you use every day is just so effective to clean our body from dirt and grease making us always stay healthy and fresh all the time? How does it work actually to sweep away dirt from our body? What actually gives a youthful look to your skin and keeps your complexion. We are going to discover the mysterious part of it.

Our body oils will form a thin film on the surface of the skin to give smoothness, glow and pulchritude to our skin. However, when you remove the body oils in order to stay clean, you are indirectly reducing the smoothness and glow of your skin. This is because the hydrophobic part which of the soap which is soluble in oil attaches itself to your body oils whereas the hydrophilic part which is soluble in water attaches itself to the water when you lather your body with soap. 

This is a soap molecule.

During scrubbing, the water is agitated. This helps to pull the oils and dirt free from the surface of your skin and also breaks the oils into tiny droplets. When you wash off the soap bubble with water, your body oils are wrenched off from your skin due to the repulsion between the negative charges on the droplets which then suspends in water. Your skin soon loses its natural moisture but it gives you a feeling that you are cleaned. You feel fresh as you are free from all the dirt and grease compared to the oily condition of your skin before that made you felt uncomfortable.

While using the soap, what you should pay attention is be careful while applying soap to an open wound by making sure the ingredients used in the soap is harmless to the wound instead of letting the wound to get worse. The soaps which do not contain harmful chemicals also might react with the skin. Most of toilet soaps are made of natural as well as synthetic essential oils. These toilet soaps are soft as well as fresh in fragrance.

You should also be noticed that frequently use of soap will deplete the capacity of your body to produce the body oils that give smoothness and glow to your skin. Therefore, here are the advices, take a bath with vigorous rubbing with soap to clearly clean off the oils and dirt from your skin; use soap occasionally but not often. That is the best and only way to keep you young and healthy.