How Soap Works: The Science Behind Handwashing
This is probably the stupidest question many of you will encounter today, but: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?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?