Question 15 Marks
Explain the method of preparation of soap.
Answer
View full question & answer→Material required for preparation soap are 15 g sodium hydroxide, 60 ml coconut oil, 15 g salt, perfume, a glass rod, beaker, tripod, wire gauze, burner, water mould etc.
Procedure:
Procedure:
- Take 60 ml of coconut oil in a beaker.
- Dissolve 15 g sodium hydroxide in 50 ml water. Mix the sodium hydroxide solution in the oil slowly, while stirring with a glass rod.
- Heat the mixture, and boil it for 10 – 12 minutes, stirring it all the while.
- Take care that the mixture does not boil over while heating.
- Dissolve 15 g salt in 200 ml water, pour this solution into the above mixture and stir.
- The soap formed by the chemical reaction now floats on the water. After some time, it becomes thick.
- Now separate the thick soap and add the perfume to it, shape the bar of soap using the mould.
- In this process, fat and alkali combine to form salts of fatty acids.
- Chemically, soap is a sodium or potassium salt 4 of fatty acids.