Can someone explain how soap kills 99%* of bacterial cells on my hands without doing any damage to skin cells?
In: Biology
Your outer layers of skin are full of keratin filled dead cells.
If you drink large amounts of nearly pure ethyl alcohol, isopropyl, or methanol then you’ll have problems.
Likewise eat detergents like a Tide pod and you can die… get it on your skin and you can just wash it off. Alcohol not so much because it’ll absorb through your skin.
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