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Exp. 4.5 Soap Making Process From Oil and Soap Cleaning Action

1. Soap is produced through a chemical reaction between palm oil and sodium hydroxide solution. This reaction involves boiling and stirring the mixture for 5 minutes. 2. Sodium chloride is added, along with more boiling and stirring, which causes soap to precipitate out of the mixture. 3. Tests on the white solid product show it has a smooth texture when touched and produces bubbles when shaken in water, identifying it as soap.

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Exp. 4.5 Soap Making Process From Oil and Soap Cleaning Action

1. Soap is produced through a chemical reaction between palm oil and sodium hydroxide solution. This reaction involves boiling and stirring the mixture for 5 minutes. 2. Sodium chloride is added, along with more boiling and stirring, which causes soap to precipitate out of the mixture. 3. Tests on the white solid product show it has a smooth texture when touched and produces bubbles when shaken in water, identifying it as soap.

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Exp. 4.

5 Soap Making Process from Oil and Soap


Cleaning Action
Aim : To study soap making process through the
reaction between oil and sodium hydroxide
solution.
Materials : Palm oil, concentrated sodium
hydroxide solution, sodium chloride powder,
distilled water
Apparatus : 250 ml beaker, tripod stand, wire
gauze, Bunsen burner, glass rod, spatula, 10
ml and 100 ml measuring cylinder.
Procedure :
1. About 10 ml of palm oil is placed in a beaker.
2. About 50 ml of concentrated sodium hydroxide solution
is added in the beaker.
3. This mixture is boiled and stirred for about 5 minutes.
Do not allow froth to form on it.
4. 50 ml of distilled water and two spatulas of table salt
(sodium chloride) are added
5. The mixture is boiled and stirred for a few minutes.
6. Leave the mixture to cool and the white solid that
formed is filtered.
7. The following tests are conducted on white solid :
(a) Touch it with your finger
(b) Shake a little white solid with water in a test tube.
Observation :
Test on white solid Observation
Touch on fingers Smooth
Shake with water Bubbles/foam appear
Analysis :
1) The white solid produced is soap.
2) Soap displays alkaline properties.
3) Table salt (sodium chloride) is added to lower the
solubility of soap in water in order for soap to
precipitate.
4) The equation for the soap making reaction :
Palm oil + Sodium hydroxide sodium salt of fatty acid +
glycerol
Conclusion :
 Soap can be prepared through reaction between oil
and sodium hydroxide solution.

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