Soap - Lunch and Learn Presentation

Slide 1

Why do it? "I can do that." "I want to know what is in my soap." "My skin is sensitive."

Why not? "It's dangerous." "What chemicals?" "Where can I get the chemicals?"

Protective Equipment

• Goggles
• Gloves
• Apron
• Surface covering

Lye

Corrisive !

Can be tough to source.

Home hardware

https://www.homehardware.ca/search?query=lye

• 500g $8.49 /EA
• 3kg $29.99 /EA

Can do Kajiji and Amazon.ca as well.

Places that do not carry lye:

• Canadian Tire
• Rona
• Home despot

Slide 2

Ingredients

Stong Alkalie

Doing it at home

Ingredients

- NaOH - Oils

Slide 3

properties of soal and how ingredients affect it.

Slide 4

Where to go from here

get a sample of NaOH from David:

glass jar

oils good choices

Slide 5

Advanced topics:

• Potassium hydroxide ( KOH ) Versus Sodium Hydroxide ( NaOH )
• Trying oil combos.
• Glycerine soap ( Transparent Soap )

https://laney.edu/cheli-fossum/wp-content/uploads/sites/210/2012/01/13-Saponification.pdf

Bonus Slide 6 - Glycerine soap

I want to do this.

Adding alcohol to soap basically to makes it transparent.

Process:

• Heat the soap until melted
• Add alcohol
• skim off sap from the top.

Bonus Slide 7 - Oil options

Hard oils versus Soft oils

https://www.lovinsoap.com/oils-chart/

My mixes, experiments and refinements : Soap

• Coconut -> hard

• Olive oil -> soft

What mixes is good?