So, what’s up with all of this natural soap anyway? Soap’s just soap…., right? Wrong! Soap has been around since about 2800 BC in Ancient Babylon; the ruins of Pompeii revealed an entire soap factory. Frontier women made all of their own soaps from rendered animal fats (gotta use every piece of the animal to survive […]

By Angelica

October 23, 2023November 21, 2023

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Why does soap work so well on the new coronavirus and, indeed, most viruses? Because it is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. That sounds scientific. Let me explain. Soap dissolves the fat membrane, and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and “dies,” or rather, […]

By Angelica

September 1, 2023November 4, 2023

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