IIARC I remember in biotechnology college they said alcohol solution 65-95% kills everything almost instantly (100% does not work well as the water is needed for alcohol to enter the cells, or something), soap kills too but you'd have to give an exposure time of ~20 minutes to kill all of them.
Soap binds with fats. cell walls are a phospholipid bilayer - made of fats, which soap tears apart thus killing germs too. Alcohol also disrupts cells but in a different way.
Which is why you have to be careful making homemade soap. The more concentrated ingredients, especially if it's lye soap, will dissolve the fat *currently attached to your body* if you get too much on you. It can also be an issue for certain professions that have to wash their hands a lot, like people in medical or food prep jobs.
it actually doesn't the friction of pushing and pulling does Soap bonds with fatty lipid membrane, soap bonds to water, and than the pushing and pull breaks the virus membrane apart.
airwoman
This comment section has me confused. It's all completely unrelated to soap or germs.
BeardedWonder82
69Voltage
Dick post
YippeeKayakOB
So... just the tip.. of your finger?
k5user
eastend666
Thank you. I'll be sending this to all of my friends, but not because they're worried about flu germs per se.
Hotcheesepanda
You got me, I thought it was a contact lens. Good one!
DJThuglifeSupreme
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ricpaul
Iaimtomisbehave
"Looks like a Thingy doesn't it?"
pickledpunk021
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SomeGiantIdiot
napsmear
Alzeido
i thought soap didnt kill, it clung to and removed?
just4thelolz
Flikker76
The little ones can be spicy! Don't judge it till you put it in your mouth.
ProChoiceBaby
raitchison
Nice finger
Fatalroadie00
ZeiQuenDi
Don't tell op this picture looks like a penis.
CycloShock
thats the joke
SIartibartfast
@TheGhostDaddy everything reminds me of u
TheGhostDaddy
Clean fingers and dirty minds
Dirtyshubb
WhiskyBravo
nice!
k5user
spread it nicely..
imtiredboss
Please stop jacking off the turtle.
iwin
I love neck rubs
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KaptainObveeus
IIARC I remember in biotechnology college they said alcohol solution 65-95% kills everything almost instantly (100% does not work well as the water is needed for alcohol to enter the cells, or something), soap kills too but you'd have to give an exposure time of ~20 minutes to kill all of them.
JuffThePoint
please stop spreading false info thank you
malaroo
why is this the second highest comment? people really have it bad for that "ACTUALLY" feeling, even when it's wrong I guess.
VaudevillianVeteranCastVicariouslyAsBothVictimAndVillain
Soap binds with fats. cell walls are a phospholipid bilayer - made of fats, which soap tears apart thus killing germs too. Alcohol also disrupts cells but in a different way.
Gerokeymaster
Which is why you have to be careful making homemade soap. The more concentrated ingredients, especially if it's lye soap, will dissolve the fat *currently attached to your body* if you get too much on you. It can also be an issue for certain professions that have to wash their hands a lot, like people in medical or food prep jobs.
JackieTreehornProductions
yeah that's the bleach slimy feeling when you don't wear gloves
slachev2718
It breaks the celular membrane which kills them
JuffThePoint
it actually doesn't the friction of pushing and pulling does Soap bonds with fatty lipid membrane, soap bonds to water, and than the pushing and pull breaks the virus membrane apart.
soap doesn't kill it directly the friction does.
DrBeees
https://www.livescience.com/how-soap-kills-germs
RocketKokket
What’s this? An over abundance of bees in the workplace??
Melonfish
secretagentchewbacca
Gotta try this later
ShortSnek
Is that a fleshlight?
Melonfish
ZachariasWolfe
k5user
dontfloatmygoat
*You’re
PineappleLoopsBroether
ElvisParsly
*too
JerBearington
The typo’s killing me
pettingmycatwhileipoo
redundancy
RNFlatus
MVP right here
ckmnstr
That's to bad
JerBearington
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k5user
this one, too...
JerBearington
:: eye twitch::
HairyChairstepper
At least it's not "looses"
JerBearington
Had the same thought