"What is this 'soap' of which you speak?"
Posted on 03/16/2020 12:16:48 PM PDT by bitt
Alcohol-based disinfectants are also effective, but soap is a highly efficient way of killing the virus when it’s on your skin
iruses can be active outside the body for hours, even days. Disinfectants, liquids, wipes, gels and creams containing alcohol are all useful at getting rid of them – but they are not quite as good as normal soap.
With Italy in lockdown, fear over coronavirus is natural but we must not be alarmist Gaby Hinsliff Gaby Hinsliff Read more When I shared the information above using Twitter, it went viral. I think I have worked out why. Health authorities have been giving us two messages: once you have the virus there are no drugs that can kill it or help you get rid of it. But also, wash your hands to stop the virus spreading. This seems odd. You can’t, even for a million dollars, get a drug for the coronavirus – but your grandmother’s bar of soap kills the virus.
So why does soap work so well on the Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? The short story: because the virus is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. Soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and dies – or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive.
The slightly longer story is that most viruses consist of three key building blocks: ribonucleic acid (RNA), proteins and lipids. A virus-infected cell makes lots of these building blocks, which then spontaneously self-assemble to form the virus. Critically, there are no strong covalent bonds holding these units together, which means you do not necessarily need harsh chemicals to split those units apart. When an infected cell dies, all these new
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Became a faithful 20 second soap-and-water guy after seeing this proven on Mythbusters years ago.
Dawn dish detergent dissolves fat/grease and probably works pretty good as a hand soap for this, but it will dry your hands out quickly.
“You can’t, even for a million dollars, get a drug for the coronavirus – but your grandmother’s bar of soap kills the virus. “
Eat a bar of soap. There will be someone out there that will read this and believe it.
I cannot find any hand sanitizer. I will carry a bottle of water and a small bar of soap with me.
OK, good to know but is there a common ingredient in soap that causes this breakdown of the virus? Soap is marketed as Goats Milk, Oatmeal and so on. I doubt those type ingredients make viruses coil in fear.
Does hand sanitizer expire?
“I cannot find any hand sanitizer. I will carry a bottle of water and a small bar of soap with me”
If you can track down 99% alcohol, Aloe Vera jell and some essential oil, like lavender or Tea Tree oil you can make your own. Alcohol will be the tricky one. 99.9% is recommended so you will need to probably find it on-line like I did.
I bought a BIG bottle of 99% alcohol on Amazon just a few days ago!!
Good article, thanks for posting it.
I don’t think the essential oil is essential. I believe it’s for smell only.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bUp-wnLT6ew
University Nebraska Med Center
Soap murders bad guy humans live good news.
“I don’t think the essential oil is essential. I believe it’s for smell only”
Yep, but with 99% alcohol I would recommend it. IT IS STRONG
You don’t need essential oils, aloe vera, or 99% alcohol.
All you need is regular 91% alcohol, glycerin, and water.
Tide Pods, and we all thought those kids were crazy!
Soap (not detergent bars) is a salt made by combining an acid (the fatty acids found in fats and oils) with a base (sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide for liquid soap.
You can make it at home with drain cleaner labeled 100% sodium hydroxide and olive oil.(this is true Castille soap) But lye is a corrosive and you must wear eye protection, nitrile or other chemical resistant gloves, closed toe shoes and protect your clothing.
There is a lot of information available on soap making. But please follow safety instructions including to always pour the lye into your liquid not the other way around.
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