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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The oil on your skin doesn’t bind with water very well, so just rinsing with water doesn’t remove much.

But soap is good at binding with both oil and water, so the soap molecule binds with the oil on your skin, and when you rinse off it binds with water molecules and gets pulled off your skin.

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