How does micellar water clean any better than regular water?
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The term micelle refers to a specific formation of fat in which the fat has a polar layer that is facing out towards the water and a non colder layer that is positioned in the center, making a single layered bubble. Soap forms a lot of these quite naturally in water.
These help wash away some substances that water doesn’t normally wash away because the non polar regions can all circle up around a non polar group of molecules, and the polar regions then make the whole thing soluble in water.
Micellar water contains micelles, which are essentially tiny little particles of a chemical that acts like soap. One end of the molecule easily dissolves in water, while the other end can dissolve in things like dirt and oil which don’t normally dissolve in water very well on their own. This allows the chemical to form little bubbles around dirt and oil on your skin, and make those bubbles easy to dissolve in water, allowing water to then wash away the dirt and oil when you rinse off.
It’s soap. Soap particles look like a snake or tadpole, with a head and tail. The heads and tails like different things, the heads like water while the tails like oils. Normally water and oil don’t mix. When soap is in some water and it finds some oil like what’s on your skin, the tails point to it and are attracted like a magnet. When enough snakes are attracted and form a bubble around the oil, that’s basically a micelle. Now that the oil is surrounded with water-loving snake heads facing out, it can be mixed with water and rinsed away.
Our body’s cells use a double layer of this, with 2 layers of snakes facing away from each other.
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