59. Fat & Ashes – The Science of Soap and Bubbles
Based on the way it gets your dishes sparkling clean, and makes all those fanciful rainbow-colored bubbles, one could be forgiven for thinking that soap is actually magic! But like pulling the curtain back on the Great Wizard of Oz, K+K explain how all of soap's greatest tricks work, like:
How soap traps grease and dirt
Why slimy fat and burnt ashes are premium soap ingredients
How soap bubbles escape the sink
How bubbles give birth to rainbows
The eggs from which rainbows are born