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Soap making process

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 Outline of tonight class 👉 Introduction to soap 👉 Chemicals for making  We start now  Soap is one of the end product of chemical reactions between potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide with oil or fat. We can literally say that mixing together of sodium or potassium hydroxide with either oil or fat will always result to soap as one of the by products.  When we mixed potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide with either oil or fat we will get two products which are: 👉 Soap 👉 Glycerine  When we use potassium hydroxide with either oil or fat we will get liquid soap. When we use sodium hydroxide with either oil and fat we will get hard soap The type of reaction that takes place when ever potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide mixed together with either oil or fat to form soap and glycerin is called 👉 SAPONIFICATION REACTION  Saponification reaction is similar to neutralization reaction where acid and base mix together to form salt In reality, acid is dan...