How Soap Works: The Science Behind Handwashing
This is probably the stupidest question many of you will encounter today, but:<p>If soap has an extraordinary ability to destroy viruses on our skin ... can eating soap give us some of those benefits for viruses that are already in our bodies?<p>I'm not seriously envisioning chowing down on bar soap or using liquid hand soap as a salad dressing.  But are there ways to use the _properties_ of soap that make it good for killing viruses in something that can be ingested?  Or do those properties only work for surface-level viruses, and we need to use other strategies to kill viruses once they're in our bodies?