{"id":31430,"date":"2016-10-27T00:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T07:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/new-soap-is-cleaner-and-greener"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:07:00","slug":"new-soap-is-cleaner-and-greener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/new-soap-is-cleaner-and-greener","title":{"rendered":"New soap is cleaner and greener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-soap-is-cleaner-and-greener.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something needed to replace antibacterial soaps.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Whether they\u2019re hand soap, shampoo, dish-washing liquid or laundry detergent, the majority of commonly-used soaps contain petroleum-based cleansing agents. Obtaining that petroleum isn\u2019t exactly an eco-friendly process, plus it becomes a source of pollution once it goes down the drain. While there are petroleum-free soaps out there, they often don\u2019t perform that well. Now, however, scientists have developed one that is claimed to actually work <em>better<\/em> than mainstream products.<\/p>\n<p>The new soap was developed by a consortium led by the University of Minnesota. It combines renewable biodegradable ingredients such as fatty acids from soybeans or coconut, along with sugar from corn, to form a soap molecule known as oleo-furan-surfactant (OFS).<\/p>\n<p>According to the university, relatively low concentrations of OFS are required to form soap particles, so less soap is needed to do the same amount of cleaning.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/ofc-petroleum-free-soap\/46147\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/ofc-petroleum-free-soap\/46147\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something needed to replace antibacterial soaps. Whether they\u2019re hand soap, shampoo, dish-washing liquid or laundry detergent, the majority of commonly-used soaps contain petroleum-based cleansing agents. Obtaining that petroleum isn\u2019t exactly an eco-friendly process, plus it becomes a source of pollution once it goes down the drain. While there are petroleum-free soaps out there, they often [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65911,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430\/revisions\/65911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}