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If you walked down the soap aisle of your favorite store, you’ll find a ton of soaps of all shapes, sizes, and fragrance. You then look at the price it sells then you read the ingredients. But wait, do you really care what the ingredients are in that soap?Soaps have come a long way.SaponificationBasically, soap is made by mixing some fat or oil with a strong salt like lye resulting in a chemical reaction called saponification.Lye is essentially sodium hydroxide. And for all you chemists out ther …