question: What is the physical (or chemical) mechanism by which soap (liquid and/or bar) cleans you?
comment: Soap is a molecule where one end likes sticking to water and the other end likes sticking to oil, this molecule is a stretched out triangle shape which means when it chains together it makes circles and spheres around the dirt and oils with the end that likes water on the outside of this bubble, the dirt and oils can then be washed away along with the rest of the soapy water. These bubbles filled with dirt and oil however are very small, the foamy bubbles you see are mostly so you know where you’ve put the soap and to lift the tiny dirty bubbles away from your skin so more soap can get in and give you a clean. Shampoo contains certain oils (some soaps have moisturiser in them too) which linger in your hair, we are naturally oily and don’t do very well when all the oil is stripped off our skin and hair so need it put back once we have taken the dirt filled oil off our bodies. Toothpaste is more of an abrasive, it scratches the surface of our teeth (yes, you can brush too much and too hard, though it is more of an issue for your gums than your teeth) to get the germs and bacteria off and traps them in the toothpaste for you to spit out, it can also contain things like fluorides to whiten your teeth and remove any stains, making it look like it’s removed more plaque than was actually there.
passages: Section::::Kinds of soaps.:Toilet soaps.
  
  In a domestic setting, "soap" usually refers to what is technically called a toilet soap, used for household and personal cleaning. When used for cleaning, soap solubilizes particles and grime, which can then be separated from the article being cleaned.
  
  The insoluble oil/fat molecules become associated inside micelles, tiny spheres formed from soap molecules with polar hydrophilic (water-attracting) groups on the outside and encasing a lipophilic (fat-attracting) pocket, which shields the oil/fat molecules from the water making it soluble. Anything that is soluble will be washed away with the water.
   In the early 1900s, other companies began to develop their own liquid soaps. Such products as Pine-Sol and Tide appeared on the market, making the process of cleaning things other than skin, such as clothing, floors, and bathrooms, much easier.
  
  Liquid soap also works better for more traditional or non-machine washing methods, such as using a washboard.
  
  Section::::Soap-making for hobbyists.
   As an example of what SOAP procedures can do, an application can send a SOAP request to a server that has web services enabled—such as a real-estate price database—with the parameters for a search. The server then returns a SOAP response (an XML-formatted document with the resulting data), e.g., prices, location, features. Since the generated data comes in a standardized machine-parsable format, the requesting application can then integrate it directly.
  
  The SOAP architecture consists of several layers of specifications for:
  
  BULLET::::- message format
  
  BULLET::::- Message Exchange Patterns (MEP)
  
  BULLET::::- underlying transport protocol bindings
  
  BULLET::::- message processing models
  
  BULLET::::- protocol extensibility
   Section::::In other media.:Video games.
   The reaction of fatty acids with base is the other main method of saponification. In this case, the reaction involves neutralization of the carboxylic acid. The neutralization method is used to produce industrial soaps such as those derived from magnesium, the transition metals, and aluminium. This method is ideal for producing soaps that are derived from a single fatty acid, which leads to soaps with predictable physical properties, as required by many engineering applications.
  
  Section::::Applications.
  
  Section::::Applications.:Soft versus hard soap.
   Seipler and Till started their company in Orlando, Florida and used meat-grinders and other kitchen utensils to cook the soap into clean bars. The first soap donor was the Holiday Inn at the Orlando International Airport. Within three years, the home business became an "international charity that...distributed 9.5 million bars of recycled soap in 45 countries." In 2011, Laguna Beach became the first city in the United States to have all hotels participate in Clean the World.
   BULLET::::- In the 1950s musical "Guys and Dolls", the character Benny Southstreet sings, "When a lazy slob takes a goody steady job, And he smells from Vitalis and Barbasol..." as a metaphor for a man cleaning himself up to retain a woman's affections.
   Since they are salts of fatty acids, soaps have the general formula (RCO)M (Where R is an alkyl, M is a metal and n is the charge of the cation). The major classification of soaps is determined by the identity of M. When M is Na or K, the soaps are called toilet soaps, used for handwashing. Many metal dications (Mg, Ca, and others) give metallic soap. When M is Li, the result is lithium soap (e.g., lithium stearate), which is used in high-performance greases.
  
  Section::::Kinds of soaps.:Non-toilet soaps.
   Soap (disambiguation)
  
  Soap is a surfactant cleaning compound used for personal or other cleaning.
  
  Soap may also refer to:
  
  Section::::Education.
  
  BULLET::::- Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program, for medical students who were not initially matched with U.S. residencies by the National Resident Matching Program
  
  Section::::Entertainment.
  
  BULLET::::- Soap opera, ongoing, episodic work of fiction on TV or radio
  
  BULLET::::- "Soap" (TV series), a 1970s sitcom
  
  BULLET::::- S.O.A.P. (band), a Danish pop music duo
  
  BULLET::::- Sons of All Pussys, a Japanese band often abbreviated S.O.A.P.
  
  BULLET::::- Captain Soap MacTavish, fictional soldier from the "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" series
   SOAP allows processes running on disparate operating systems (such as Windows and Linux) to communicate using Extensible Markup Language (XML). Since Web protocols like HTTP are installed and running on all operating systems, SOAP allows clients to invoke web services and receive responses independent of language and platforms.
  
  Section::::Characteristics.
  
  SOAP provides the Messaging Protocol layer of a web services protocol stack for web services. It is an XML-based protocol consisting of three parts: 
  
  BULLET::::- an envelope, which defines the message structure and how to process it
  
  BULLET::::- a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes
   Section::::References in popular culture.
  
  When the Philadelphia Phillies played at the Baker Bowl during the 1930s, an outfield wall advertisement for Lifebuoy stated, "The Phillies use Lifebuoy". One night in 1935, a vandal added, "And they still stink". Variations of the joke were also employed by detractors of other losing teams.
   Polystyrene sulfonates release sodium or calcium ions in the stomach in exchange for hydrogen ions. When the resin reaches the large intestine the hydrogen ions are exchanged for free potassium ions; the resin is then eliminated in the feces. The net effect is lowering the amount of potassium available for absorption into the blood and increasing the amount that is excreted via the feces. The effect is a reduction of potassium levels in the body.
  
  Section::::Mechanism of action.:"Clostridium difficile" associated diarrhea (CDAD).
   Soap
  
  Soap is the term for a salt of a fatty acid or for a variety of cleansing and lubricating products produced from such a substance. Household uses for soaps include washing, bathing, and other types of housekeeping, where soaps act as surfactants, emulsifying oils to enable them to be carried away by water. In industry, they are used as thickeners, components of some lubricants, and precursors to catalysts.
  
  Section::::Kinds of soaps.
   SOAP
  
  SOAP (abbreviation for Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks. Its purpose is to provide extensibility, neutrality and independence. It uses XML Information Set for its message format, and relies on application layer protocols, most often Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), for message negotiation and transmission.
   Section::::UDDI nodes and registry.
  
  UDDI nodes are servers which support the UDDI specification and belong to a UDDI registry while UDDI registries are collections of one or more nodes.
  
  SOAP is an XML-based protocol to exchange messages between a requester and a provider of a Web Service.
  
  The provider publishes the WSDL to UDDI and the requester can join to it using SOAP.
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- ebXML
  
  BULLET::::- XML-RPC
  
  BULLET::::- Java API for XML Registries
  
  BULLET::::- WS-I Basic Profile
  
  BULLET::::- United Nations Standard Products and Services Classification (UNSPSC)
  
  BULLET::::- S-RAMP
  
  Section::::External links.
   BULLET::::- Hotel Soap is an animated cartoon character in the "Dr. Tran" animated series of internet shorts
  
  BULLET::::- An abbreviation for "Snakes on a Plane", a 2006 film
  
  BULLET::::- "Soap" (Melanie Martinez song)
  
  Section::::Science and technology.
  
  BULLET::::- Sugar soap, a material used for cleaning surfaces before repainting
  
  BULLET::::- SOAP (originally an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol), a protocol specification in computer networks
  
  BULLET::::- Spectrometric Oil Analysis Program, a method for testing the oil in aircraft engines for the concentration of critical metals to identify wear of engine parts
   BULLET::::- In 1974, American country music singer Ronnie Milsap had a hit single composed by Eddie Rabbitt entitled "Pure Love." In an obvious reference to the Ivory soap slogan, the lyrics contain the line, " percent pure love."
  
  BULLET::::- The 1953 Raymond Chandler novel "The Long Goodbye" contains a passing reference to an 'Ivory Soap deal', a reference to the implicit cleanliness of said deal.
   William Gossage produced low-priced, good-quality soap from the 1850s. William Hesketh Lever and his brother, James, bought a small soap works in Warrington in 1886 and founded what is still one of the largest soap businesses, formerly called Lever Brothers and now called Unilever. These soap businesses were among the first to employ large-scale advertising campaigns.
   William Gossage produced low-priced, good-quality soap from the 1850s. Robert Spear Hudson began manufacturing a soap powder in 1837, initially by grinding the soap with a mortar and pestle. American manufacturer Benjamin T. Babbitt introduced marketing innovations that included sale of bar soap and distribution of product samples. William Hesketh Lever and his brother, James, bought a small soap works in Warrington in 1886 and founded what is still one of the largest soap businesses, formerly called Lever Brothers and now called Unilever. These soap businesses were among the first to employ large-scale advertising campaigns.
  
  Section::::History.:Liquid soap.
   Soapmakers frequently use rebatching as a way of adding substances that could not withstand the high temperatures or caustic chemical environment of cold process or hot process soapmaking, such as certain essential oils (for example, those with a very low flash point). The choice of liquid affects the character of the finished soap; milk is frequently used to give the soap a smooth, creamy consistency. Rebatching can also be used as a way of salvaging soap that cracked, curdled or separated while being made.
   Unsaponifiables are components of an oily (oil, fat, wax) mixture that fail to form soaps when treated with sodium hydroxide (lye) or potassium hydroxide. Since saponifiable components of the original oil mixture do form soaps, the result of a soap making procedure is a mixture of soaps and other, frequently oily, materials.
   BULLET::::- Vegan soap, made without use of animal byproducts
  
  Section::::See also.:Soap-related.
  
  BULLET::::- Antibiotic misuse
  
  BULLET::::- Dishwashing soap
  
  BULLET::::- Foam
  
  BULLET::::- List of cleaning products
  
  BULLET::::- Hand washing
  
  BULLET::::- Soap bubble
  
  BULLET::::- Soap dish
  
  BULLET::::- Soap dispenser
  
  BULLET::::- Soap plant
  
  BULLET::::- Soap substitute
  
  BULLET::::- Soapwort
  
  BULLET::::- Shampoo
  
  BULLET::::- Shower gel
  
  BULLET::::- Toothpaste
  
  BULLET::::- Soap made from human corpses
  
  Section::::Further reading.
  
  BULLET::::- Free ebook at Google Books.
  
  BULLET::::- Dunn, Kevin M. (2010). "Scientific Soapmaking: The Chemistry of Cold Process". Clavicula Press. .
   Although "The Soap Myth" is a work of fiction, it is, in the words of the program, "inspired by real people and real events as well as an article written by Josh Rolnick in "Moment" magazine profiling Holocaust survivor Morris Spitzer."
   Ordinary soap is a salt of a fatty acid. Soaps are mainly used as surfactants for washing, bathing, and cleaning. Soaps for cleansing are made by treating vegetable or animal oils and fats with a strongly alkaline solution. Fats and oils are composed of triglycerides; three molecules of fatty acids are attached to a single molecule of glycerol. The alkaline solution, which is often called lye (although the term "lye soap" refers almost exclusively to soaps made with sodium hydroxide), brings about a chemical reaction known as saponification. In this reaction, the triglyceride fats are first hydrolyzed into free fatty acids, and then these combine with the alkali to form crude soap: a combination of various soap salts, excess fat or alkali, water, and liberated glycerol (glycerin).
   BULLET::::- Pauli Ryberg as Costumer
  
  BULLET::::- Jakob Ulrik Lohmann as One-Night Stand
  
  BULLET::::- Claes Bang as One-Night Stand
  
  BULLET::::- Christian Mosbæk as Narrator (voice)
  
  Section::::Reception.
  