Soap
The creation of clean
process of soap making
Our process involved finding a recipe, and using the lye calculator to determine how much materials we need to make a neutral reactions. We then took our amount of fats and oils and heated them on the burner. After it was melted we added the other solution oils together. Then, we took our lye amount and water amount and mixed in a glass beaker. We made sure they were 5 degrees apart, then added them together and let them sit.
ingredients
Olive Oil- 21.5
Palm Oil- 21.5
Coconut Oil- 21.5
Cocoa butter- 21.5
Jasmine
Water- 1.29 ounces
Lye- .43 ounce, 12.08 g
why soap dries your hands
human skin has a slight acidity to it which is how it protects us from bacteria and other materials. in the process of making soap we use NaOH or lye which is extremely basic and harmful but when its mixed with the fats and oils it becomes more neutral but it is still more basic than your hands drying them in a neutralization reaction making salt.
neutralization
A neutralization reaction is when and acid and a base react and form H+ and OH-. When NaOH is added (our Lye) the Na and OH separate. The OH attracts to the floating H+, and cancels. We take our Lye which is our base and oils and fats which is really acid and those cancel out. our soap was a ph of 8
Ionic and covalent compounds
Na(OH), Na has a +1 charge and OH has a -1 charge. Sodium hydroxide is an ionic compound. Also all of the oils are nonpolar covalent.
Conservation of matter
After the displacement reaction of the molecules, the equation has to come out of the reaction with the same matter as it went into the reaction with. So for our soap after the mixing of our ingredients and reaction the product comes out with the same amount of matter as it went it with.