Mechanism of action of soap

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Under the microscope, the covid-19 appeared to be covered with pointy spikes ( made of glycoprotein) giving them the appearance of crown hence named corona. And beneath this pointy spikes, the outer layer of the virus is present. The outer layer of the virus is made up of lipid which we commonly called fat.According to Williams’s concept, you can imagine that the coronavirus is your butter dish covered with buttery fat. And you are trying to wash your dish with water alone, but the butter is not washed away from the dish. William said you want some soap to dissolve or washed away the butter from the dish.As we are doing routinely in our house and washed away the Kitchen Utensils. Similar case with coronavirus to washed it away from hands. As we discussed the outer layer of the virus is made of lipid, so similar to the case with coronavirus, washing hands with soap can dissolve the lipid layer of the virus and can kill the virus. Hence, soap and water are very effective in antiviral and antibacterial activity.The structure of soap looks like a tiny sperm, having head and tail. The head portion of the soap binds with water while the tail doesn’t. The tail portion has the ability to bind with oils and lipids. The tail portion of the soap is bonded with the outer layer of the virus and begins to split it. Similarly looks like that we are using a crowbar to separate two pieces of wood. (By Sandee LaMotte, CNN