Dead bodies can become covered in what looks like soap. Technically known as adipocere (and sometimes also called grave wax), ...
When fat in your body comes into contact with specific bacteria after your demise, your remains have the potential to undergo a process known as adipocere formation, resulting in a wax-like ...
He also donated to the Mütter the famous Soap Lady, whose corpse had become coated in a waxy, soap-like substance called adipocere. The medical history museum in Philadelphia is notorious for ...