how does soap remove fats and oils if it’s made of fats and oils?

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What’s the process that makes it good at something so far off from its composition?

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Imagine each soap molecule as a string. The string itself LOVES Fat and the tip of the string LOVES water. The string is just one molecule so despite the difference they stay together. The effect is the string grabs on to fat and the tip latches it on to the water.

This allows you to essentially glue fats to water making cleaning with water and soap actually effective against fats and oils.

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