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Chemistry Bites

Digestible chemistry primers explaining what happens at the molecular level when soap meets skin. Name the compounds, cite the mechanisms, skip the hand-waving.

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Chemistry Bites

What Saponification Actually Is

There's no lye left in finished soap — and that's not a marketing claim, it's a stoichiometry one. Here's the reaction in three minutes.

By Krystal