Stainless Steel Soap

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Geez, can't you guys just go on faith?

[leo-rcc]

For garage soap I use coffee grinds and washing up liquid.

As for the OP: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=6473350

[Gawdzilla Sama]

For garage soap I use coffee grinds and washing up liquid.

As for the OP: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=6473350

Try racking your fingernails over a bar of soap before you start working. It will simplify clean-up. (Insert post about already having very, very short nails here.)

[Randydeluxe]

For garage soap I use coffee grinds and washing up liquid.

As for the OP: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=6473350

Kinda cool that my experiment was much more detailed than NPR's named expert. I compared the steel egg to a block of wood, a plastic toy, an aluminum can, at least three different soaps... and I used the noses of a couple of different people to judge results.

[Svartalf]

I presume this is what James Bolivar DiGriz uses to bath with?

Curse you, I wanted to make that joke.

[Svartalf]

it works esp on Garlic smelling hands

Any chemical explanation or evidence for that? Does it just work on a particular chemical in garlic and possibly onion, or would it also remove fish and nicotine odours as it claims?

I can imagine it might have a chemical explanation; it might work as a catalyst, or perhaps react with particular chemicals directly, - but I don't know enough chemistry to have a clue what they mean by oxido-reduction.

Even if there is a chemical explanation, I'd still question the efficiency of such a product, since it can't be easy to get a solid object in contact with the entire surface area of your hands.

I'd go for catalyst, if there is any actual effect at all... if steel melted like soap when put in contact with water, we'd know it... after all, cutlery is stainless, not unmelting