As in body soap, shampoo, dish soap, leather seats foam, toothpaste, car wash, …
All are different surface with different “dirt” and yet the foam is constant.
Is their any chemistry related reason that bonds cleaning any surface with something happening during foaming?
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Soaps are long chains of fats that have a polar and a nonpolar end. The polar end is attracted to water and the non polar end is not.
This let’s them grab fats and other non polar substances on your skin and drag them away with the flow of water. And also it means that when you agitate them they naturally form layers where the polar ends are out and the nonpolar ends are facing each other. When they form these around some air that is a bubble. And since agitating them always introduces air you’re going to produce some bubbles.
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