Most normal hand soaps are made from oil from vegetables or animals. What makes biodegradable soap different?

Vegetable oils and animal fats are biodegradable. These are found in most normal hand soaps. How is biodegradable soap different and what makes it more biodegradable?Most normal hand soaps are made from oil from vegetables or animals. What makes biodegradable soap different?
soaps made 4rm natural materials like u said animal fat, oil etc are infact biodegradable soaps.......these are soaps that can be degraded or completely broken down by microorganisms ......such soaps donot cause pollution.....maybe if the C-C bond is less %26amp; more easy to break the soaps will be more easily degradableMost normal hand soaps are made from oil from vegetables or animals. What makes biodegradable soap different?
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Normal soaps also contain ingredients that can harm the environment w/pollutants. Biodegradables do not......
I went to the supply closet, and got out a couple of hygiene items: a can of shaving cream, which is NOT of biodegradable products, and a bar of soap which although not labelled as such, seems to be made of such. Let's take a look:


The shaving cream, which is from Gillette, contains: stearic acid, triethylanolamine, isobutane, laureth-23, sodium lauryl sulfate... Okay, let's pause a mo. The isobutane and the sulfate are not biodegradable, I think. Of course, I'm not a chemist, but I learned a thing or two in chemistry courses and from reading. Oh by the way, any chemists or biochemists in the audience, please sound off, we could use your help here.


Let's look at the other, a bar of Milk Soap from Corlin Farms. It has Sodium Tallowate, Sodiaum Cocoate, Goat's milk, Cow's Milk, PEG-75, Meadowfoam Seed Oil, Fragrance, Glycerin, Titanium Dioxide, Dizolidinyl Urea, Iodopropraynyl Butylcarbamate, and Tetroasoidum EDTA. I would suppose the average suburban watershed might not have the bacteria or plants to process TITANIUM.


One point I think should be made is that even biodegradable substances, when occurring in amounts that are too much for a system to process, can cause ecological harm. One obvious example of this is what happens when fast food places dump grease down storm drains. Yes, it's illegal, but I've seen it done, for example a few years ago, behind a fast food place in Stockton, Georgia. I see signs of it behind some housing in my neighbourhood. We in our county are aware there are massive leaks in our sewer system. How's your community doing? One hope in all of this is that scientists are still discovering bacteria which do things like eat iron, etc. Maybe some of this research, IF IT'S FUNDED, can help and bring us hope.
Soap is relatively easy to make, look it up on line. However, your question is an easy one to answer as asked. Biodegradable soap simply has less lye and less harsh formulation. Every commercial soap is biodegradable that I know of. Detergents in general are quite nutritive for plants, the phosphorus is the main chemical that plants enjoy, which is sometimes the problem when it gets into the water supply, causing quick algae growth. Most biodegradable soaps have less sudsing agents, yes that is why if you have ever used it, you just don't get that sparkly fresh clean feeling.
it is made out of anmails skin that is mean
It's biodegradable
couldnt say.
well now...if you got something against biodegradable soaps vs nonbiodegadable soaps and its really bothering you...then just quit using soap altogether stinky boy
The one you mentioned is Bio degradable soap!
there is basically soemthing along the midst of chlorine in soap. a small dose not needed for labeling on the ingrediants but about 15000 collected non biodegradable soap products will have enuff chlorine to keep you pool clean for months. so therefor its not biodegradble due to the chemicles.
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Biology soap is not made of any of that stuff it has water, salt and sand in it.
heck if i know gosh dont ask hard questions like that!!!!!
In normal soad there are chemical agents that are NOT biodegradable...thus THOSE parts pollute...





In biodegradable soaps all ingredients are biodegradable.





And FYI...the Vegetable and animal oils and fats do NOT make up a large portion of the soaps we use...they are simply part of several ingredients that soap consists of.
Soap is a natural, organic product that is inherently biodegradable. The carboxylate end of the biodegradable soap molecule is attracted to water and is called the hydrophilic (water-loving) end. The hydrocarbon chain is attracted to oil and grease and repelled by water and is known as the hydrophobic (water-hating) end.The soapy greywater from a single household may biodegrade easily in a backyard, however, if that same soap went down a sewage line that fed into a waterway along with the soap used by a million or more residents that live along that waterway, there may be waves of soapsuds on the beaches, simply because more soap would be going into the waterway than it has microorganisms to biodegrade.
You answered yourself in the comment after your question!!! Its the marketing! People think they're helping the planet etc etc etc.... LOL and they get charged MORE for it! Most all of it is bio-degradable! LOL