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 fats are boiled in either a strong acid (liquid soap) or lye (solid soap)

the electo molecular polarity means it attaches to the more neutral fats

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