Why is glycerin used in bodywash?
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To make it slippery!\n\nIt's alcohol based and water soluble so it does not remain on your skin after the shower.
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It's just the technical name for a type of soap.\n\n"Surfactants are active cleansing substances that consist of a fat-soluble (lipophilic) part and a water-soluble (hydrophilic) part. The lipophilic part sticks to oil and dirt, and the hydrophilic part allows it to be washed away. Surfactants may be a soap, a synthetic detergent or a combination The choice of cleaning agent helps determine the product's lathering characteristics, feel on the skin and how easily it rinses off."\n\n"Amphoteric surfactants are both negatively and positively charged to leave a pleasant sensation on the skin and reduce the irritant action of anionic surfactants. An example is cocamido propyl betaine; betaines are derived from sugar beet."  -  from the link
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Glucosamine. There have been some reports that that glucosamine, an alternative agent used for osteoarthritis, may reduce inflammation that affects nerves involved.\n\nGlycerol has had diverse uses in medicine. It has moisturizing and lubricating properties and can increase serum osmolality. It is given orally to reduce intraocular pressure and vitreous volume in eye surgery and is used as an adjunct in the management of acute glaucoma.  Glycerol has also been used (intravenously or orally) for the management of cerebral edema secondary to acute stroke, to lower intracranial pressure and to improve rehydration during acute gastrointestinal disease.
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if use your hands to rub soap on your body its kind of hard not to wash them at the same time. i recommend wrapping hands in plastic bags before bath to keep them nice and dirty.
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Fertilizer (like Miracle Gro), Glucerna Shake (lol!!), Avon ANEW PURE Facial Cleanser,
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It's the salt and urea! If these waste products aren't washed away, the salt doesn't evaporate off the body and often traps the waste product urea alongside it as well.\n\nThe stickyness is more a sign that one needs to wash rather than any advantagious reaction...though perhaps having a physical signal that its time to bathe IS a rather usefull evolutionary tool. :)
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Formula: you more or less answered your question yourself. It is any combination of glycerine esters with any combination of these acids.\n\nReaction with NaOH is saponification, resulting in glycerine and the free acids (or more specifically, acid rests as dissolved salts).\n\nReaction with hydrogen in the presence of Pt or Raney-Ni as catalysts will ultimately produce the triglycerides of the corresponding saturated acids. This is known as "hardening" of fats since saturated fatty acids tend to produce solid fats whereas unsaturated fatty acid triglycerides of comparable mass remain liquid at the same temperatures.\n\nReaction with bromine will result in electrophile addition of Bromine on the double bonds of the unsaturated acids.
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To saponify with lye and water produces soap, with the glycerin still in it.\n\nTo saponify with lye water and ethanol produces pure glycerin, water and biodiesel fuel.
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Natural Green Chamomile Soap\nIngredients\nbullet2 cups glycerin soap base\nbullet1 tablespoon powdered chamomile\nbullet1 tablespoon glycerin or aloe vera\nbullet1 capsule chlorophyll concentrate\n\nInstructions\n    Melt glycerin base in double boiler on low heat. Blend powdered chamomile with glycerin or aloe. Stir this mixture into melted glycerin then stir in contents of chlorophyll capsule. Pour into small tupperware style containers and leave uncovered until cool. \n\nThe chlorophyll capsule gives the soap a natural color. Putting soap into this style of container allows for travel use. Wet face and face brush. Run face brush over front of soap and then face. Rinse warm. Allow glycerin soap to dry before putting cover back on.
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They have a body wash with the same ingredients.
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Glycerin, also well known as glycerine and glycerol, and less commonly as 1,2,3-propanetriol, 1,2,3-trihydroxypropane, glyceritol, and glycyl alcohol is a colorless, odorless, hygroscopic, and sweet-tasting viscous liquid. Glycerin is a sugar alcohol and has three hydrophilic alcoholic hydroxyl groups (-OH) that are responsible for its solubility in water. Glycerin is prochiral. Glycerin is used in glycerin soap, in cosmetics and creams, in foods, in chemistry, and in glycerin Fog machine mist. Glycerin is produced from dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) by the enzyme glycerol three-phosphate dehydrogenase (Gpd p) in the mitochondrion of the eukaryotic cell during glycolysis
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Sodium hydroxide is a very strong base, not an acid (the common name is lye).\nTriglycerides are fats, like beef tallow.  Mixing them and allowinging to react would produce Granny's lye soap.
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Citric acid and products like Biocid have been used.\n\nhttp://www.ultra-chemical.com/index2.htm
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Used to be used in the manufacture of soap, I believe.
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Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap 18-in-1 Hemp pure-Castile Soap. Made with organic oils. For the face, use either :lavender (for oily or acne prone skin), almond or Aloe vera (for normal, dry and sensitive skin).This is THE BEST stuff anyone can use. It's very inexpensive! It's good for your wallet, your bod, your (and our) environment. Did I mention that you can use it also as body wash, dish wash liquid and shampoo (for short hair though).That's why it's 18-in-one! And  . . . no animal testing! www.drbronner.com     (760)743-2211  Box 28,Escondido, CA. 92033  All you need is a very small amount!! The size of a dime is more than plenty.Comes in various sizes.
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fat + lye = soap + glycerol\nNeed details?\nSee the site below for a balanced equation for a typical fat reacting with sodium hydroxide to form a soap.
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Depends on the type (and quality) of car wash you wish to make, whether it is a hand wash or "touchless", whether it contains wax or not and how much you want to spend.\n\nFor a simple wash take :\n\nWater                                                                            55%\nSLES 70% (sodium lauryl ethoxy sulphate 70%)               15%\nCDE (Cocodiethanolamine)                                              15%\nCocobetaine 45%                                                            10%\nEDTA                                                                               2%\nSTPP                                                                               3%\nPreservative, colour, pH adjust to suit\n\nYou may need to play with the percentages a little to thicken the product - as a word of advice, for good quality carwashes don't use salt to thicken the anionics (as it promotes rust).