Does ivory soap mixed with water help protect plants from insects and fungus?

I have heard that if you spray your plants with ivory soap mixed with water diluted that it protects your plants. Is this true? I have shrubs and different type of plants in my front yard. I have several types of plants. Please help!Does ivory soap mixed with water help protect plants from insects and fungus?
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The soap is a good way to dissolve oils and hard to dissolve organics into a solution, will change the pH of the leaf surface and even smother some insects. It also adds phosphorus to the soil in just the right place for the plant to benefit. Plants have their own individual shapes and this seems to funnel rain to, or away (in some cases) from areas of the roots that are most active. You may damage some plants though so be careful. Plants make their own waxy or oily layers that you might damage if overdone. Review what you have read about soaps and ask yourself why you want to use them. Do the two thoughts join happily or have nothing in common? Best way to keep fungus at bay is never get leaves wet. That gives fungus a place to start and splashing spreads innoculum, the spores in this case, to all other plants. If you have to water overhead, as with sprinklers, do it when plants are wet with the night's dew, just before or at sunrise. If the neighbors don't want to hear your sprinkler waking them up, give them a few of your homegrown tomatoes. They are great in salads as well as decorations on their vinyl siding if they profess distaste for the fruit of your labor. Some folks can't be happy unless they whine a lot, so help them out. (smile)
It definitely helps and it's the easiest, most economical way to protect them. It will protect them to most pest, however, not all of them, but it's a good alternative to most insecticides out there.

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