TITLE: AMPALUNGGAY SOAP

ABSTRACT

It has been observed that people nowadays are very much concern with the appearance and color of their skin, so our
group decided to invent a new kind of soap. We can offer it to the people to help make their skin whiter, softer and
fairer at an affordable price.

We used one whole ampalaya, half pound of malunggay leaves, lye, coconut oil and lavender fragrance. We cut the
ampalaya into pieces and mixed with a little amount of water and blended it. Then we chopped and minced half pound
of malunggay leaves. We put the ampalaya and malunggay leaves into separate bowls. We mixed a little amount of
water into the lye and left it to chill. We put the coconut oil in a pot and heated it and after heating we put it in another
container and slowly add the lye with it and mixed them vigorously for about an hour and a half and put the blended
ampalaya and minced malunggay into the mixture and continuously stirring the mixture until it became more liquid.

After mixing all the ingredients, we add lavender fragrance oil into the mixture then put in into a soap mold and covered
it with cloth to make it hard. After a few days the soap hardened and we took it from the mold and set it in a dry place
to cure for about two months. After two months, the soap is now ready to be used.

METHODOLOGY

Materials

Ingredients

· One whole Ampalaya or Bitter Melon

· Malunggay

· About 55grams of Lye

· 200ml of mineral water

· 500 ml of Minola coconut oil

· 20ml of lavender fragrance oil

Materials

· 6 round stainless molds

· Glass stirring rod

· Glass measuring cup

· 2 large pots

Procedure

We decided to make our soap out of a few organic ingredients. We started off by cutting one whole ampalaya into
pieces with a knife and setting it aside. Then we took the malunggay leaves off its stems. After that, we put them into
separate bowls and blended them separately in the blender. We put a little water with our ampalaya so that it becomes
a thick liquid while our malunggay needed extra cutting to become minced after being blended because we needed it to
become dry bits.

After we set those aside, we put our gloves on and dropped about fifty grams of lye into two hundred milliliters of
water. We observed the chemical reaction as we dropped the lye in the water our solution heats up. We mixed it until
the mixture’s cloudy appearance disappears. And while the lye is almost ready, we then put five hundred milliliters of
coconut oil in a pot to heat because the temperature of the oil needs to be at least five to ten Celsius apart from the
temperature of the lye and if not, it can also react and burn. When the oil was heated, we put it in a separate container
and slowly put the lye with it.
We mixed it very vigorously for about one and a half hour. As we mixed it, the mixture becomes dark. Then we put the
blended ampalaya and minced malunggay into the mixture. After that, we stirred it again with a spoon just until it
became one whole green liquid base. It had an unpleasing smell to it so we also added about ¾ of a twenty milliliters of
lavender scented fragrance oil to the mixture.

Then we finally poured it into the molders and set it aside with a cloth on top of the molds so that it absorb the
substances that it will release and help the increase the speed of hardening the soap. After a few days, the soap
hardened enough for us to be able to take them out of their molds so we took them out of their molds then set it in a
dry place to let the soap cure for about two months so it can finally be used.

RESULT:

The ampalaya-malunggay soap positions itself as an anti-aging and whitening soap. One of its benefits is the suppleness
of the skin after the soap is used or applied. It felt smooth on the skin and it didn’t show allergic reactions after being
used it and after the following days. The ingredients that we used are all-organic and individually has a benefit to skin.
The scented smell of our product comes from the lavender extract oil, which is also organic.

The soap that we formulated was successful because it solidified and it somewhat turned into a soap. But in a way it was
not successful because the lye was burned by the over-heated coconut oil. We need both lye and coconut oil to have the
same temperature. But since the lye was burned, it took us quite time to mix the ingredients. After mixing all the
ingredients we saw that bubbles were starting to build up while we were transferring them on the container.

When we used the product, it wasn’t so hard because the time wasn’t sufficient to harden the soap but when we used it
was gentle to the skin and does not cause any allergic reaction.

DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION:

We conclude that making soap is fun and can be easy but requires much research before even daring to deal with it. Our
group definitely did not lack in research but we were short on some materials. We did not have a thermometer at that
instance which is important for people who aren’t experienced in making soap and measuring the temperature of the
lye and oil so the mixture burnt a little bit and that is why we think that our soap solution did not reach saponification
properly. We also did not have an electric mixer that is required when making soap so that the solution thickens up
easily and that is the reason we assume why the solution just did not thicken at all. We learnt through the experiment
that exact measurements were really needed so that the mixture saponificates.