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The 28 pages that link to Soap, each with the reason it gives.

• Fatty acidRelated: Saponification converts fats into fatty-acid salts that act as soap.

• Palm oilRelated: Palm oil contributes firmness and lathering properties to soap.

• Sodium hydroxideRelated: Sodium hydroxide converts fats and oils into the salts used in hard soap.

• SaponificationBroader topic: Saponification produces the fatty-acid salts used in traditional soaps.

• Oleic acidRelated: Saponification of oleic acid can produce oleate soaps.

• Coconut oilRelated: Coconut oil supplies fatty acids that help soap lather and cleanse.

• AmphiphileBroader topic: Its amphiphilic molecules help disperse greasy material in wash water.

• CarboxylateRelated: Many soaps are sodium or potassium salts whose surfactant heads are carboxylates.

• DetergentCompared with: Unlike most synthetic detergents, soap can form insoluble deposits in hard water.

• HandwashingRelated: Soap enables water to lift greasy soil and microbes from the skin.

• Stearic acidRelated: Stearic acid salts contribute cleansing action and can make soap bars harder.

• Ester hydrolysisRelated: Traditional soap production uses saponification of fats or oils.

• Lauric acidRelated: Alkali converts lauric acid into laurate salts, which can serve as soap ingredients.

• Potassium carbonateRelated: Potassium carbonate can help convert fats into potassium soaps during soapmaking.

• Personal hygieneRelated: Soap loosens oily soil so rinsing can carry it away from skin and hands.

• Palm kernel oilRelated: The oil’s fatty acids can be converted into soap through saponification.

• Caproic acidRelated: Hexanoate salts are possible soap components, though less common than salts of longer fatty acids.

• Hand sanitizerCompared with: Soap and water remove grime and microbes rather than relying on an antiseptic active ingredient.

• AlkaliRelated: Alkalis react with fats to produce soap in the process called saponification.

• Corn oilRelated: Corn oil can supply fatty acids for soapmaking.

• Myristic acidRelated: Myristic acid can be converted into myristate salts used in soaps.

• Wood ashRelated: Ash-derived lye supplied alkali for traditional soap-making.

• James GambleNarrower topic: Gamble’s expertise in soapmaking supplied one half of the founders’ original business.

• LyeRelated: Lye converts fats into the fatty-acid salts that form traditional soap.

• TallowRelated: Saponification converts tallow into soaps valued for hardness and lather.

• William LeverNarrower topic: Soap was the basic product around which Lever built his industrial enterprise.

• Francis PongeBroader topic: Its changing, vanishing subject makes language and material behavior inseparable.

• Shower gelCompared with: Soap is a chemically distinct alternative that can behave differently in hard water.