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-up1207arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1202arrow-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-square001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agoThanks for triggering my germaphobia. But then again, I’d probably be too afraid to travel.
minus-squarei_suppose@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-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-squarePsaldorn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoSoap emperor here: can confirm. But mostly I let my soapologists deal with the details.
minus-squarei_suppose@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoWell, TIL more than one thing!
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/
Thanks for triggering my germaphobia.
But then again, I’d probably be too afraid to travel.
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/
Soap emperor here: can confirm. But mostly I let my soapologists deal with the details.
Well, TIL more than one thing!
That reply is wrong, surfactants effectively kill many varieties of microbes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166552/