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Clean Up Your Act

Clean Up Your Act. Environmental Soap Making. Traditional Soaps. Soap-nut Soapwort Soap- lilly. What do soaps do for you?. Soaps are salts of fatty acids Soap is attracted to both non-polar and polar molecules. Chemistry of soap.

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Clean Up Your Act

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  1. Clean Up Your Act Environmental Soap Making

  2. Traditional Soaps • Soap-nut • Soapwort • Soap-lilly

  3. What do soaps do for you? • Soaps are salts of fatty acids • Soap is attracted to both non-polar and polar molecules

  4. Chemistry of soap • Soap is formed from glycerol or fats by reacting it with lye. • ‘Superfatting’ • Detergants

  5. Soap and Biodiesel • Transesterfication : Triglycerides + Methanol = Methyl esters + Glycerol

  6. Health and Safety • Heat

  7. How to make soap • Melt Soap base • Add 1 drop of dye to mould • Add 1 drop fragrance to mould • Add glitter, petals, etc. to mould • Pour soap into the soap mould • Leave to set

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