Eli5: Why chemicals in products, like shampoo or cleaners, don’t go reaction among themselves and form whole different compound?

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Eli5: Why chemicals in products, like shampoo or cleaners, don’t go reaction among themselves and form whole different compound?

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Chemicals don’t just react randomly, they follow a set of rules and behave in predictable ways. They know what they put in a shampoo and what things it can do, if reacting spontaneously in an unwanted way was in that list, they wouldn’t put it there.