Why doesn’t soap break down skin cells?

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I remember from my high school biology class that almost all cells are protected by a lipid bilayer. I know that soap kills germs by disintegrating this bilayer, causing the bacterium to fall apart. How come soap doesn’t do this to skin cells?

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Well, it does, but to the outer layer of the skin, which consists in multiple layers of “dead” cells

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