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Millions at risk from cholera due to lack of clean water, soap and toilets, and shortage of cholera vaccine – World Health Organization (WHO)
- Millions at risk from cholera due to lack of clean water, soap and toilets, and shortage of cholera vaccine World Health Organization (WHO)
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Mother of Emmy-winning soap star Billy Miller reveals son’s cause of death: ‘He fought a long hard valiant battle’ – New York Post
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The physics behind building an enduring soap bubble
Blowing soap bubbles, besides being a favorite pastime for children, also happens to be an art form and a subject of interest for physicists. Emmanuelle Rio, François Boulogne, Marina Pasquet, and Frédéric Restagno from the Laboratory of Solid State Physics at the University of Paris-Saclay have been studying bubbles for years, trying to understand the different processes at play in these innocuous-looking structures.
“Bubbles are important as they appear in many places, including washing products, cosmetics, building materials, and also in nature. For example, sea foam plays a role in terms of the exchanges between the atmosphere and the sea,” Boulogne said.
Now, the team has described a key event in the life of bubbles: when they pop.
Taking the temperature
In a recent study, Boulogne and Rio established the role played by the temperature of the bubbles’ surface in their stability. “In some cases, the aging of the bubbles and their bursting has been associated with the thickness of the soap film. Recently, researchers began associating the thinness of the soap film with evaporation. However, in our study, we pointed out that heat transfer, which is associated with evaporation, wasn’t taken into account,” Boulogne said.
To explore this aspect, the researchers measured the temperature of the bubbles’ surface and found a significant difference compared to room temperature. “The temperature of bubbles’ surface can decrease by up to 8° Celsius,” Boulogne said.
Boulogne stated that although there is a link between temperature and aging of the bubbles, the impact of low temperatures on when the bubbles pop remains to be understood—and is likely to stay that way for a while. “So far, we have no model that can make this prediction. Understanding the stability of bubbles is a challenge that will take several decades,” he said.
He reasoned there are several factors that need to be considered when it comes to the stability of bubbles. “This includes temperature, rate of evaporation, film-thinning, marginal regeneration (the phenomenon of small patches, which are thinner and lighter than the surrounding film, rising toward the top), and geometry. To have all these factors in a single model is very challenging.”
Building the perfect bubble
While predicting the stability of bubbles in different scenarios may take some time, Rio identified an optimal combination of ingredients to make bubbles last longer while at the same time being easy to create.
The key to longevity is glycerol. The other ingredients include a long polymer like the naturally occurring guar gum and “optimum proportion” of dishwashing liquid. “If you add more dishwashing liquid, creating bubbles becomes easier. However, their life time is shortened. That’s why you need to find the right amount of dishwashing liquid to ensure bubbles last long enough and are easy to generate,” Rio said.
Working with the French artist Pierre-Yves Fusier, who specializes in bubbles art, Rio and her colleagues developed the recipe, which consists of 40 milliliters of dishwashing liquid, 100 milliliters of glycerol, and 1 gram of long polymer such as the naturally occurring guar gum mixed in 1 liter of water. Using this recipe, Rio created 5 cm-diameter bubbles in her laboratory that lasted an hour.
While adding glycerol may make the bubbles more stable, Rio said the impact of other ingredients on the bubbles’ stability is still an open question. “Glycerol is a hydroscopic molecule which can help condensate water. But we know the surfactant (dishwashing liquid) and the polymer also impact evaporation. The next step in our study, therefore, is to find out how our recipe impacts the evaporation,” Rio said.
Rio added that evaporation, which is yet to be completely understood, is just one phenomenon that plays a role in bubble bursting. “You also have to consider gravity, which contributes to thinning of the surface that leads to the fluctuation of film thickness. All of this makes it extremely difficult to predict when a bubble will burst,” Rio said.
Dhananjay Khadilkar is a journalist based in Paris.
An iconic soap with two weird claims to fame — “It floats” and it’s “99+44⁄100% Pure”
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Walk into a Walmart, Target, any drugstore chain in your neighborhood or a corner bodega for New York City dwellers, and chances are you’ll find an Ivory Soap bar, or a pack of 10 bars for under $5, sitting on the shelf.
This iconic cake of soap, invented almost 150 years ago, has become a part of Americana largely by advertising its two strange merits: “It Floats” and it’s “99+44⁄100% Pure.”
The original product is a no-frills, plain white, mild-scented bar soap with the name “IVORY” etched into it in script. Impressively, it has stayed exactly that way for 143 years – barring the addition of an Aloe scented variety, and is also still around.
Ivory soap’s longevity flies in the face of a notoriously fickle market for personal beauty products where new trends can appear and disappear in a flash.
So why has Ivory Soap stood the test of time? One theory is because of its clever advertising and branding. Ivory Soap packaging famously, and relentlessly, touts the attributes of purity and buoyancy.
“That’s brilliant execution,” said David Placek, founder of Lexicon Branding, a branding expert who has helped name such popular consumer products as “Swiffer,” “Blackberry” and “Dasani.”
“Just think about it. How many other soaps can you think of that tout an attribute that’s analogous to “It Floats?” said Placek. “I can’t think of another. It makes you remember it because it also makes you think about other soaps that don’t float.”
Because Ivory Soap’s taglines have remained consistent and endured for over a century and through generations of consumers, they’ve seeped into the subconscious, said Placek.
“Even if you’ve not used Ivory Soap you know about it and you remember it,” he said.
Ivory Soap is the brainchild of Procter & Gamble. Not the huge multinational consumer brands conglomerate that it is today, but of two individuals – Harley Procter (son of P&G cofounder William Procter) and James N. Gamble (son of P&G’s other cofounder, James Gamble).
It was in the late 19th century, a period when river bathing was prevalent among large swaths of the population. Now imagine losing your grip on a bar of soap when you’re immersed waist-deep in murky water.
But what if there was a soap bar that could float?
An AdAge article about Ivory Soap’s invention explained how Gamble at the time was trying to create a new type of gently formulated soap. The R&D process inadvertently created a batch of soap that was found to float because air bubbles got trapped inside.
Gamble, according to P&G’s website, recognized the “floating soap” could revolutionize the washing experience in more ways than one.
He initially thought the floating soap could be used both for laundry and for washing up. Over time, the soap bar primarily became a bath soap.
Naming the soap was another story.
According to P&G legend, Harley Procter same upon the word “ivory” while attending church and thought it perfectly fit the new soap’s look and feel and both men adopted “Ivory Soap” as the name.
P&G launched the soap in 1879 hyping it not only as a soap bar that floated but for its purity.
That claim, according to the company, hinged on a study of the soap by chemistry professors at the request of the inventors. One study showed the soap had only a small amount of impurities – 56/100 of a percent – of a non soap material in it.
So they decided to play that up in Ivory Soap’s advertising, rounding it up to create its second iconic tagline – “99 and 44-100% pure.”
P&G maintains that while it continues to innovate its Ivory Soap, the product is still made with a simple formula free of dyes and parabens meant to gently cleanse the skin.
It has, however, extended the brand to other products.
In the 1950s, according to the AdAge article, P&G launched a light-duty dishwashing detergent under the Ivory brand, followed by liquid hand soaps in the 1980s and moisturizing body washes in 1996 with the introduction of Ivory Moisture Care. Today, the Ivory personal care portfolio also includes baby care products, hair and body washes and deodorant.
Ivory soap has become so iconic that in 2001 P&G donated a collection of its Ivory Soap artifacts to the Smithsonian Institution, including its earliest advertising and a bar of unused soap from the 1940s.
Lexicon Branding’s Placek said Ivory Soap is a product way ahead of its time. “It was ‘pure’ before pure, clean and simple products became as popular as they are with consumers today,” he said.
How does soap kill germs?
Twenty seconds of scrubbing with soap is one of the best ways to protect yourself — and the people and things you touch — from disease-causing germs. But how exactly do soapy suds kill pathogenic bacteria and viruses that infect us?
Soap’s germ-zapping superpowers are built into its molecular structure: a “head” attached to a long “tail,” according to Dr. Lee Riley, a physician, professor and chair of the Division of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology at the University of California (UC) Berkeley. The head is hydrophilic, or water-loving, while the tail is hydrophobic — water-fearing or water-repelling. That hydrophobic tail has an affinity for fats, and all bacteria and some viruses — including SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 — have a lipid membrane, which leaves it vulnerable to a soap molecule’s fat-puncturing tail.
“The tail inserts itself into the [bacteria’s] lipid membrane, and that’s how it ends up getting killed,” Riley told Live Science.
Some types of pathogens have very robust cell walls, so they can survive even after soap’s hydrophobic tail penetrates their membrane. But even in these cases, soap molecules can vanquish bacteria and viruses by surrounding and isolating them.
When soap attacks these pathogens, the tails in soap molecules attach to the cell’s lipid membrane, with the hydrophilic heads facing outward. This forms a tiny ball of soap molecules, known as a micelle, around the pathogen, Dr. John Swartzberg, a physician, clinical professor emeritus and infectious disease expert at UC Berkeley told Live Science. Bacteria or viruses are easily captured by micelles because the outside of the micelle is hydrophilic, so it’s easily swept off your hands and down the drain — along with its pathogenic prisoners — when you rinse the soap away with water.
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In 2010, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of soap by having 20 volunteers contaminate their hands a total of 480 times with diarrhea-causing bacteria. The subjects were then randomly assigned to perform one of three actions: wash their hands with soap, wash their hands with only water, or not wash their hands at all. Their hands were then tested for the diarrhea-causing bugs, the scientists reported in The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (opens in new tab).
In the group of subjects that did not wash their hands, the bacteria were present in 44% of the participants. In those who washed their hands with water alone, bacteria were present in 23% of the study subjects. And in the group that washed their hands with soap and water, bacteria were detected in just 8% of the people, according to the study.
Soap molecules are so effective at eliminating and annihilating the germs on our hands that antibacterial soap is completely unnecessary and can be harmful; by driving the evolution of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, Swartzberg said. And when we wash antibacterial soap down the drain, it can promote the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the local water supply.
On top of that, antibacterial soap kills all bacteria — even the good ones that we depend on to keep us healthy, Riley added.
One key component required for soap to do its job is often overlooked, however. And that’s time. It takes at least 20 seconds for the tail end of the soap molecule to sufficiently bind itself to the pathogens on your hands or on another surface. Cutting that time short could mean missing out on the full protective effect of using soap, Swartzberg said.
Originally published on Live Science.
‘General Hospital’ soap star Jack Wagner’s son Harrison, 27, found dead in Los Angeles parking lot
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“General Hospital” star Jack Wagner’s son, Harrison, was found dead in a Los Angeles parking lot on Monday morning, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner. He was 27.
Harrison was pronounced dead on scene at 5:14 a.m. in the 11200 block of Chandler Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley suburb of North Hollywood. The cause of death is currently under investigation and listed as “deferred.”
The coroner’s office told Fox News Digital: “Deferred means that after an autopsy, a cause of death has not been determined and the medical examiner is requesting more investigation into the death, including additional studies. Once the tests/studies come back, the doctor evaluates the case again and makes the cause of death determination.”
“Focus. YOU are left with YOU and your thoughts,” he captioned his final Instagram post on May 22.
Jack Wagner’s son Harrison was found dead in a Los Angeles parking lot on Monday. He was 27.
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Earlier in the year, Harrison shared a photo posing with his famous father on social media, and captioned the image, “like father, like son.”
Fox News Digital has contacted Wagner’s representatives for comment.
Jack Wagner attends George Lopez Foundation’s 15th annual celebrity golf tournament at Lakeside Golf Club on May 02, 2022, in Toluca Lake, California.
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He struggled with drug addiction in the past, but it’s unclear if substance abuse played a part in his death. Jack previously spoke out in fear for his youngest son’s addiction issues after he relapsed in 2016 and went missing for one week.
“I’m going to ask those who want to share their fears, addictions & struggles to do so w me via Twitter. We can face them 2gether, I’ll start,” Jack tweeted at the time.
“I fear for my youngest sons safety. Harrison has struggled w drugs & alcohol just as I did when I was younger. He’s relapsed & is MIA 5days.”
He gave fans a hopeful update the following day when he announced Harrison had been in contact: “He’s 21 & in charge of his life, ty for the lv & prayers, please continue to share your struggles, it helps us all.”
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Harrison’s mother, Kristina Wagner, is also an actress, and met Jack while working together on “General Hospital.” Jack and Kristina Wagner are pictured here in 2015.
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The 64-year-old actor is known for his roles on “Melrose Place,” “The Bold and The Beautiful” and “Santa Barbara.”
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Harrison’s mother, Kristina Wagner, is also an actress, and met Jack while working together on “General Hospital.” The couple privately married during a ceremony in Lake Tahoe, Nevada in 1993, but divorced years later in 2006.
Jack and Kristina also have a son named Peter, and Jack has a daughter, Kerry, from another relationship.
Following Jack’s divorce, he was in a longtime relationship with Heather Locklear beginning in 2007.
The couple, who worked together on “Melrose Place” in the ’90s, became engaged in 2011, but called off their nuptials only three months later. She was previously married to Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora.
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Should You Use Shower Gel, Body Wash, or Bar Soap?
When it came to bathing in America, bars of soap reigned supreme for part of the 19th and much of the 20th century. But by the late 1980s, traditional solid bars of soap started getting some stiff competition from liquid alternatives known as “shower gels” and “body washes.”
Thanks to clever marketing—including pushing the idea that bar soap is gross—body washes and shower gels eventually started outperforming bar soap. Now, shifts towards using personal care products with fewer chemicals and that leave behind less waste have made room for bar soap to stage a comeback. But popularity aside, which cleanser is right for you? Here’s what to know.
The difference between bar soap, shower gel, and body wash
First, let’s start with the basics. But as we do, keep in mind that bar soaps, shower gels, and body washes are all massive product categories, and these are general descriptions of each (so there are plenty of exceptions).
Bar soap
A bar of soap is a solid chunk of cleanser traditionally made by mixing an oil (today, most commonly coconut oil, palm oil, and olive oil) with a liquid (usually water), and an alkali (sodium hydroxide, aka lye).
However, most of the big-brand bars of soap on the shelves today are actually “syndet bars” (“synthetic detergent”), meaning they’re made using synthetic forms of the traditional soap ingredients. They’re often labeled as “beauty bars” or “cleansing bars.”
Shower gel
Shower gel tends to have a firmer, gel-like consistency, a higher concentration of added fragrance, and sometimes are formulated to be used on both the body and hair.
Body wash
Like shower gels, body washes are liquid cleansers that use mild surfactants to cleanse the skin. But generally speaking, products labeled as “body wash” tend to be thinner and creamier than shower gels.
How to pick the best cleanser for your skin
At this point, there are so many formulations of bar soaps, shower gels, and body washes that if you look hard enough (i.e. read the labels), you can probably find the features you want in your preferred format. But again, generally speaking, here’s what to consider when selecting a soap for your shower (or bath):
Dry skin
If you have dry skin and prefer a liquid cleanser, you’ll be better off with body wash, as it’s more hydrating and moisturizing than shower gel. There are also plenty of beauty bars out there with heavy doses of moisturizer for those who prefer their soap in solid form.
Oily skin
On the flip side, those with naturally oiler skin (who don’t need the extra hydration), and/or live somewhere hot or humid, may want to opt for shower gels or more traditional bars of soap. Shower gel also works if you simply want to get clean and nothing else, or prefer that “squeaky clean” feeling.
Sensitive skin
People with sensitive skin already know that certain soaps and cleansers can cause very uncomfortable reactions, and understand the importance of reading labels to assess a product’s ingredients. One factor to consider is pH. Body wash usually has a lower pH level than traditional bar soap—making them better for sensitive skin that’s also dry.
The other two main ingredients to pay attention to are fragrances and preservatives. Body washes and shower gels tend to have more than bar cleansers, but again it depends on the individual product.