Show a chemical structure for soap.
What is unique about the polairyt (charge characteristics of soap?
Soap has a very big (-) charge.
How does soap work?
In chemistry, soap is a salt of a fatty acid. Soap is mainly used for washing, bathing, and cleaning, but soaps are also important components of lubricants. Soaps for cleansing are obtained by treating vegetable or animal oils and fats with a strongly alkaline solution. The alkaline solution, often lye, promotes what is known as saponification. In saponification, fats are broken down (hydrolyzed) yielding crude soap, i.e. impure salts of fatty acids, with glycerol as a byproduct
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