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KY_EnviroGuy

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19. Used extensively to make detergents and soaps for products such as.....

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun May 10, 2026, 04:03 PM

7 hrs ago

liquid hand and dish soaps, laundry detergents, toothpaste as well as soaps for hard plastics manufacture (industrial soap gives hard plastics such as car taillight lenses that slick feel).

I recall tank cars of it being unloaded at the soap plants where I did environmental field service jobs. I can see America going into full panic mode if we ran low on cleaning supplies and hard plastics.

KY........

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