Key Public Health Practices for Protecting Your Family from Biological Nasties!
"Washing with soap and water is one of the key public health practices that can significantly limit the number of infections."
- Alex Welsh for The New York Times
There's only one thing in the world that kills both viruses and bacteria: Old-Fashioned Soap
That means all the chemicals sanitizers you're rubbing on your skin at work, school and Chipotle aren't helping you...in fact, they're causing more harm:
Chemical-based soaps, "sanitizers" and wipes increase your exposure to cancer-causing chemicals used to make them.
...oh yea, and there's also the risk of superbugs.
Therefore, the more "sanitizing" you do, the more you train bacteria and virus' to mount defenses against you.
Old-fashioned soap is different.
Real soap bars made via "saponification" using Lye kills everything thanks to the creation of "micelles."
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The Micelle Bubble
When you make soap from olive oil, tallow and palm oil, you make one of chemistry's all time great medicines - The micelle.
...liquid soaps and sanitizers won't give you this.
Micelles are pin-shaped molecules that have water-loving properties on one side and a water-shunning property on the other. The opposing sides are what create "the bubble."
(This is among the most unique properties in chemistry and is responsible for protecting us from biological nasties for thousands of years!)
ALERT: That's the difference, the fake, chemical suds you get from soaps at Whole Foods and the Farmer's Market yield perfume-laden look-a-like bubbles that don't attack germs!
True soap yields micelle bubbles that kill infection on contact!
How Old-Fashioned Soap Kills Germs
Bacteria and viruses are protected by a shield of fat that resembles a micelle. These shields are studded with proteins that allow the biological nasties to invade and thrive off a host.
The most prominent of these pathogens are coronaviruses (common cold, flu and more), hepatitis B and C, herpes, Ebola, Zika, dengue, and numerous bacteria that attack the intestines and respiratory tract.
The micelle bubble kills all of them. They wedge themselves into the lipid envelopes of microbes and viruses, prying them apart like a crowbar. This pressure causes the potential threats to implode, akin to a heat seeking missile.
Prof. Pall Thordarson, acting head of chemistry at the University of New South Wales describes the attack by explaining that the micelle bubbles "render bacteria and viruses useless."
That's why old-fashioned soap is so valuable to my family! As a father and chemist, we've been making soap for more than a decade.
Our bars are chemical free and made from olive oil, tallow, palm kernel oil and shea-butter, it's a dream for skin, hair and face.
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