{"id":20519,"date":"2024-02-15T05:53:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T00:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20519"},"modified":"2025-04-06T01:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:21:52","slug":"micellar-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/micellar-water\/","title":{"rendered":"What is micellar water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Micellar water<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Micellar water products contain something\u00a0called micelles \u2013 clusters of molecules that are very effective at removing oily substances.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The micelles in micellar water are formed by special molecules\u00a0known as surfactants.<\/li>\n<li>These micelles have a\u00a0hydrophilic exterior, meaning that they are very happy to remain mixed throughout water.<\/li>\n<li>It is a commonly used skin care product that helps remove impurities and makeup from your skin.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a very gentle solution that contains a very mild detergent.<\/li>\n<li>Working\n<ul>\n<li>When you apply some micellar water to a cotton pad, another convenient interaction occurs.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0wet cotton is hydrophilic (loves water). Consequently, some of the micelles will unravel, with the hydrophilic heads being attracted to the wet cotton pad.<\/li>\n<li>Now, sticking out from the surface will be a layer of\u00a0hydrophobic tail groups.<\/li>\n<li>These hydrophobic tails cannot wait to attract themselves to makeup, sunscreen, oils, dirt, grease and other contaminants on your face.<\/li>\n<li>As you sweep the cotton pad across your skin, these contaminants bind to the hydrophobic tails and are removed from the skin.<\/li>\n<li>Some contaminants will also find themselves encapsulated in the hydrophobic centres of the micelle.<\/li>\n<li>Either way, a cleaner surface is left behind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is surfactant?<\/h3>\n<p>The compounds that lower the surface tension between two phases, like between two liquids, a gas and a liquid, or a liquid and a solid are called surface active agent or surfactants<i>..<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Source: <\/strong><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/what-is-micellar-water-and-how-does-it-work\/article67841607.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is micellar water and how does it work?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micellar water contains something called micelles \u2013 clusters of molecules that are very effective at removing oily substances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}