Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Can Pineapple Skins Replace Soap? | World Wide Waste | Business Insider" video.

  1. could be great, but the video is missing an explanation of what the product actually can and can't do. you talked about very superficial tests about killing bacteria, but people normally clean with the primary intent of removing various types of visible dirt, and you didn't say anything about what this could do there. I know that that primary pineapple enzyme is great at destroying proteins, but that's quite different from the normal soap-based cleaning products that primarily dissolve fats in water. does the pineapple stuff also work for fats? also you called the product a "soap" after they added oils, but you don't get soap by mixing oils with acids, you get soap by mixing oils with bases. edit: read the other comments, feel dumb now for not realising that the stuff is vinegar. sure, vinegar has cleaning applications (though I absolutely despise the smell of normal vinegar used for cleaning), and if this process actually preserves the bromelain enzyme, that could make the pineapple vinegar more effective for some cleaning jobs than normal vinegar, since that stuff is really good at breaking down and dissolving proteins, which I believe are a category of substances that soaps tend to have a little bit of trouble with. but it would certainly not be a replacement for detergents, just a potentially better vinegar. and I don't see how it would be suitable for washing skin or accidental skin contact whatsoever, I don't want vinegar on my skin, and bromelain very noticeable attacks skin and mucous membranes whenever you cut or eat fresh pineapple.
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  2. it was funny seeing them use brown vane sugar for that. here in germany, that is very much the expensive kind of sugar (white beet sugar is the cheapest).
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  3. that's what it is, more generally known as mother of vinegar
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  4.  @grumblekin  what's SDS?
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  5.  @ariima9466  I don't think sugar production has a particularly bad reputation for environmental harm, what are you talking about?
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  6.  @ariima9466  like I said, that is absolutely not a well-known issue. I have never heard of it, and I've heard of a lot of things of that sort. and it still doesn't seem very credible (since I don't see what about sugar production would even produce notable wastewater, except perhaps with white sugar production). I won't be taking your trolly word for it. xD
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  7.  @ariima9466  ok so sugar mills produce wastewater that due to its high sugar content feeds bacterial growth and deoxygenates waterways it's released into... seems like a pretty mild industrial waste problem that's likely to be very localised. a sufficiently large sugar mill could make a couple kilometers of a river into a dead zone, and that would suck for example for fish that need to migrate, but it wouldn't be as bad as all sorts of other industrial processes that produce persistent poisons.
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  8.  @ariima9466  mimimimimi xD what's the explanation for you being such a c**t?
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  9.  @ariima9466  of course it makes my argument valid. your first comment implies that it's a very a well-known issue. you're fun to argue with <3
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  10.  @ariima9466  what did I contradict?
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  11.  @ariima9466  *your no, my argument from the start was that that is not a well-known issue, and you have conceded that. I didn't contradict myself anywhere, I won the argument.
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  12.  @ariima9466  look at your profile, I'm pretty sure you're the kid here. xD
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  13.  @ariima9466  that's an oldschool emoticon, kiddo
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  14. perfect comment
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  15. yeah I really don't like the non-disclosure on perfumes. even here in the EU, where we generally have very strict rules for ingredients disclosure, they can just list "perfume" or the like non-specifically.
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  16. pineapple contains an enzyme called bromelain that destroys proteins, including those that make up most of your skin and mucous membranes. you can also buy the stuff for tenderising meat. canned pineapple and commercial pineapple juice do not contain the enzyme, because those products are boiled to sterilise them, and the heat destroys the enzyme. that's why fresh pineaple dissolves the inside of your mouth, but pineapple juice and canned pineapples do not. yeah, I don't see how a cleaning product based on vinegar with bromelain could be skin-friendly.
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