Soap

Equipment

• 2 Old pots - 2$
• Digital Thermometer - 12$
• Digital Scale - 28$
• plastic containers - free - used containers from other stuff , yogurt, wood putty

Consumed

• olive oil - 3 litre - 11$ - grocery store
• lye ( sodium hydroxide - NaOH ) - 3kg - 22$ - hardware store

Roughly

fat + base ( NaOh or KOH ) = Fatty Acids + Glycerol i.e. soap

Resources

• http://www.susanparks.com/soapworks/soapworks.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerol
• NaCl - Salt
• NaOH
• KOH
• The Soap Making Forums
  • Lye Calculators
• Grams of lye for Grams of fat X
• Thread about making NaOH http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=5673