What does it mean to lather?
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Rub until you make all sorts of suds.
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Upwards.   Shaving downwards causes skin irritation.
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lakas means strong, loob means feeling.\nit's something like nerve, guts....
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Any washing liquid will be a mixture of various substances, usually water-based.\n\nStandard components are detergents - molecules with a polar and an apolar end which can absorb on fatty (lipophile) substances and provide solution in the polar medium with their polar end. Classical soaps are sodium salts of fatty acids.\n\nOther ingredients vary strongly with the purpose of the washing up liquid. Perfumes, enzymes to digest specific types of pollutants, bleaching agents (usually oxydative), emulgators, Calcium-removers (like polyphosphate, zeoliths or chelating agents)...
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My parents used to say this stinks on "dry" ice.  I guess that was back in the old days.  LOL.  I am curious now too.  What does it mean?
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Soap is a surfactant cleaning compound used for personal or minor cleaning. It usually comes in solid moulded form, termed bars. In somewhat recent years, the use of thick liquid soap has become increasingly widespread, especially from dispensers in public washrooms. Soap is used in conjunction with water for washing and cleaning. The wet soap residue and the dirt or soil are rinsed off with clean water afterwards. In the developed world, synthetic detergents have superseded soap as a laundry aid.\n\nMany soaps are mixtures of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids which can be derived from oils or fats by reacting them with an alkali (such as sodium or potassium hydroxide) at 80°–100 °C in a process known as saponification. The fats are hydrolyzed by the base, yielding glycerol and crude soap. Historically, the alkali used was potash made from the deliberate burning of vegetation such as bracken, or from wood ashes.\n\nSoap is derived from either oils or fats. Sodium Tallowate, a common ingredient in many soaps, is in fact derived from rendered animal fat. Soap that is made of vegetable oils, such as olive oil, are generally termed castile soap.
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it means burn or burning for example: cauterize
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It means ALTERNATING CURRENT/DIRECT CURRENT.\n\nI don't know what the heck it means\n\nsome people think it has to do with the devil
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Thanks for that tidbit.  I had no idea. \n\nIn Spain, they have an expression, "to smell like an Englishman".\n\nI try to keep my wife happy, so I only bath once a week, to keep that *authentic* odour. </joke>
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It is a barrier of oil and perspiration, created by the sweat and sebaceous glands of the dermis, that protects the body from infections. We can strip this away by using harsh soaps thus disrupting the pH of the skin.
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'Latic' is a derivative of Athletic, hence its association with both Wigan and Oldham. As a Rochdale fan, I am aware of many other words/phrases to describe Oldham and its football team, but don't want reporting for abuse!
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Formal definition out of a chemistry book.\n"Lattice:\nA symmetrical pattern of points arranged with constant repeat distances arrangeg along the lines oriented at constant angles"\n\nA latice basically the crystaline arrangement of an ionic comound.\nI cant explain it very well, but look here,\nhttp://members.iworld.net/joo/physics/curri-sub/crystal/lattice.html\nhttp://www.hermetic.ch/compsci/lattgeom.htm
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Hard, soapy scrubbing, but not TOO hard. Just really soapy.
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The use of lye soap worked wonders for my sister's.  She was able to purchase this at a local health and beauty shop
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Not all shampoo is clear, but I guess if they WERE different, it's because conditioner has more stuff in it. After all, shampoo is to clean your hair, why would you want to put a whole bunch of crap in it. As for that girl who said her shampoo isn't clear, it's probably conditioning shampoo.
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shower gel all the way, soap dries out the skin sometimes, shower gel gives you some moisture.  Also, for me, it lathers up more easily, more fun in the shower!
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This term has become very popular in gyms up and down the east coast.  "Brush Puppies" refers to a man's hairy chest, hence the "brush" part.  And we are all familiar with the use of "puppies" as slang for a chest.  So, in a gym a man might be heard saying, check these "guns" meaning his pumped arms, and now, check out these "brush puppies" meaning his pumped chest.    \nApparently, clean-shaven chests are out. Now it's all about having as much hair as possible.