why doesn’t a liquid laundry/dish detergent pod break down from the detergent inside?

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Why doesn’t the detergent inside cause the package to break down ? I find as soon as water touches it it begins to melt away, why wouldn’t the detergent cause this?

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Different materials react diffently to one another. The plastic wrap of your pod is highly water soluble, but the content has no water, only detergent and other chemicals. The water in the machine dissolve the wrap while its content dissolve the dirt

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