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What are fillers and what role these fillers play in soap?

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Due to the diverse application of soaps, each type contains specific constituents to fulfil their role, these substances which provide a soap, these specificity properties are known as fillers. In shaving soaps, glycerol acts as a filler to stop the rapid drying of the soap. In laundry soaps, many fillers are present to increase the ability to form leather-like sodium rosinate, sodium silicate, borax, and sodium carbonate. In medical soaps, fillers are added to give it properties like antibacterial, antifungal, etc. Soap deodorants also include the addition of fillers.

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