Ok, so here’s one thing you might want to bring sa mga outdoor activities ninyo, particularly if it involves eating, my favorite activity. Syempre sometimes you feel like eating using your hands tapos nasa banana leap pa yung food. We usually do that sa beach, sa mga climbs or even sa bahay lang, specially if sea-food and mga ihaw-ihaw ang nasa menu. Hmm, I can imagine the smokey smell, sarap! Now after that comes the lingering smell of food and mga seasonings na sinaw sawan mo; soy sauce, fish sauce, bagoong etc. which naghalo halo na sa kamay mo. You tried washing it off using soap and isopropyl alcohol, tapos nilagyan mo pa ng cologne. Still, some stubborn smell remains.Then it’s time to use this special soap, the “stainless steel soap. Some says it’s just a placebo effect. But it works for me without using my imagination, so I guess it really works. You might want to try it for yourself.
Here is some explanation I found about this “phenomenon”
“This is speculation on my part - if you know more about the chemistry behind this phenomenon, please feel free to write me. It makes sense to me that the sulfur from the onion/garlic/fish would be attracted to and bind with one or more of the metals in stainless steel. Formation of such compounds is what makes stainless steel stainless, after all. Onions and garlic contain amino acid sulfoxides, which form sulfenic acids, which then form a volatile gas (propanethiol S-oxide), which forms sulfuric acid upon exposure to water. These compounds are responsible for burning your eyes while cutting onions and also for their characteristic scent. If the sulfur compounds bind to the steel, then the odor is removed from your fingers.”
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| Just other Sunday feast in Bulacan, May 2011 |
You may purchase one at “Saizen” a Japanese stuff store, it’s everywhere. You only need to buy once for it doesn’t dissolve like soap. Now that is SULIT.
Nothing to lose but that lingering smell. Try it.
-Boy Zilla
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