Soap Making (Cold Process)

he student resources include the following safety notes: 

 WEAR YOUR GOGGLES.

 Be very careful with the sodium hydroxide. If you spill any NaOH on your skin, rinse with water
IMMEDIATELY and call your instructor.

 Be careful with the glass stir rod. If you are not gentle with it, it will break.

Concepts: acid/base, emulsification, intermolecular forces,organic

Concepts: 

Soap, acid-base, intermolecular forces

Procedure time:  50 minutes

Prep time:  20 minutes

Time required: 

45 minutes to just make the soap.

Materials: 

Recipe 1: canola oil, coconut oil , palm oil (150 g)

Materials:

 Safety goggles and safety apron

 500 mL beaker

 150 mL beaker

 Canola oil , coconut oil , palm oil (150 g)

 20 g NaOH (pre-weighed)

 Distilled water (49 g)

 Glass rod for stirring

Procedure: 

1. Write your name and class period on your molder.

2. Measure out 49 g of water into the 150 mL beaker.

3. Carefully add the 20 g of NaOH (pre-weighed) to the water and stir gently with the glass stir rod
until everything is dissolved. Do not touch the sodium hydroxide. Do not splash the solution.
 4. DO NOT keep the beaker near your face or breathe in the fumes from the solution. The beaker
will get hot as you stir, so keep the beaker on the table. Leave the glass stir rod in the beaker.

5. Obtain some canola oil, coconut oil , palm oil in your cup marked canola oil, coconut oil , palm
oil from the front table. Measure out 150 g of liquid oil into your 500 mL beaker .

6. SLOWLY trickle the lye (NaOH) into the oil, stirring with the glass stir rod continuously to
emulsify. DON’T TOUCH IT! Once all the lye is added, continue to stir carefully but vigorously for

7. Blend the mixture until you reach “trace”, when the oils and lye solution have emulsified and
the mixture begins to thicken. Your mixture should be the color and consistency of _______after
at this point.

8.Pour your soap solution into the molder. Leave the soap in the molder to cure.

9. After a day or two, we will remove the soap from the molder and leave it on waxed paper to aid
the curing process. This type of soap needs to mature to lose its alkalinity (pH 10-12 when new).
Use only after at least 3 weeks of “curing”, or when the pH level is around 8.

Observation :

Conclusion :

Defination of terms:

1.Saponification
2. Ester

3. Lye

4. Hydroscopic

5. Emulsification

6. Soap

7.Advantages and limitation of hot process soap making.

8.Advantages and limitation of cold process soap making.

9. Bubbly lather 

10. Creamy lather