Quote Originally Posted by The GECCO
It is a surfactant, which means it lowers the surface tension of water. What does that mean? Well, lemme put it this way - bar soap doesn't actually clean your skin, water does. The problem is that normally the surface tension of both your skin and the water prevents the water from getting "into" your skin enough to remove oils and dirt. If you lower the surface tension of the water it can become thinner and get in between your skin and the oils and dirt you want to remove. Bubbles are a natural result of soap, but they aren't made of soap, they are made of water. Normally the surface tension of water is such that the surface breaks before it is stretched thin enough to be supported by air and form a bubble. If you lower the surface tension it can be stretched thinner without breaking and a bubble is formed.
Soap is a surfactant which allows the water to clean skin and form bubbles, and the lower the surface tension in a radiator fluid, the better correct?


Hot damn! I'm gonna go home and put beer in my radiator and take a piss shower!