recipe for making soap?

Question

can someone tell me a easy recipe for making soap at home using easily available and cheap products?and please tell the chemical activities of a soap.please do help me it is a part of my chemistry project. i need the ingredients as well as the process along with a list of its chemical reactions and activities.

Answer 1

You're going to want to read up on soap making first. It can be dangerous working with lye. Here is a great site: http://www.millersoap.com/

You will need to measure precisely as each different oil has it's own saponification value (you can find a sap value chart on the Miller site as well)--so if you don't have a scale here are a couple of fluid recipies which should work for you:

All of these are liquid measurements (measure in your liquid measuring cup, like a pyrex one with a spout), except the ones marked "BW." Those are by weight and come in containers in that weight... just look for them.

Here are a few simple combinations to choose from:



Temperatures for ALL recipes:
Lye water: warm (feel side of container)
Fats at 110 degrees.
If you have coconut:
48 Crisco (or generic soybean cottonseed or canola, usually in 3# cans) BW
16 lard (box in oils aisle, 1# box any brand) BW
20 coconut oil (melt and measure) (available at WalMart)
4 oz. soybean oil
12 oz. lye BW
21 oz. cold water

Follow the basic soapmaking instructions on Millers. If you can't find coconut oil--try these:

4 oz. castor oil (one 4 oz. bottle from pharmacy or drugstore)
32 oz. lard BW (2 one-pound packages)
34 oz. soybean oil
24 oz. olive oil
12 oz. lye BW
23 oz. cold water

48 oz. Crisco shortening (a 3 pound can) BW
8 oz. castor oil (2 4-oz. bottles)
32 oz. lard (2 one-pound packages) BW
6 oz. soybean oil
12 oz. lye BW
23 oz. cold water

To scent them nicely you can add a skin safe fragrance oil or any essential oil of your choice approximately .5 oz per pound of oils. (1.5 oz in a 3# log of soap for essential oil or 3 oz of skin safe fragrance oil)

Answer 2

That does not sounds like a good soap. Think about wetting wax and rubbing it on your skin.... nothing would happen. Most soaps are made of glycerin or various types of oil. You can recycle the wax and make candles though. That is really easy.

Answer 3

Basically get animal fat together with anything basic, heat, mix and when you cool it, soap is formed. The reaction is actually called saponification.

Once you cool the mixture, it will be soap.

That is why in the movie fight club they went out to get human fat from some hospital.

Answer 4

Mix cocoanut or other vegetable oil with about 10% by weight of caustic soda or potash dissolved in water and boil . After the reaction is over cool and make different shapes. The percentage of caustic used is important .

Answer 5

first you obtain some cooking oil . then get some soduim hydroxide(diluted . i don;t know where you can get that) . then add the sodium hydroxide to the oil and then heat the mixture. give it about, between 10-15 minutes( always use safety equipment!)

Answer 6

Just visit the following site and follow the instructions

http://www.meltandpour.com/howtomakesoap.htm