How to make liquid soap

PRACTICAL STEPS TO LIQUID SOAP PRODUCTION

INTRODUTION: In my last article I wrote on how to produce air freshener and bleach. Today I will be working you through the various steps to producing liquid soap either for commercial purpose or for domestic use. Liquid soap like every other production that we have put on in this blog is simple walk through approach that does not require special treating. All you need to get started is to read thoroughly this post and you will be happy with yourself in the end. It does not require much capital to start production.

RAW MATERIALS NEEDED FOR THE PRODUCTION

    Natrosol                                           ¼ kg
    Thickner                                           1/8kg
    Sulphonic acid                                1litre
    Soda ash                                          ½ kg
    Caustic soda                                    ¼ kg
    Texapon                                           ¼ kg
    Sodium laureate sulphate (SLS) 1/8 kg
    Perfume                      Add as much as you want but I will advise you add it moderately.

   There are different perfumes in the market. Below is a list of some:
• Ambinol
• Ambipur
• Lavender
• Exe
• Passion
• Juma
• Bakhour
• Jasmine
• Apple
• Blue water
• Lemon
     Colour                          1 wrap (there different colours as well but colour green is mostly used. Make your choice)
    Preservative                 formalin

PRACTICAL STEPS TO THE PRODUCTION

Below are the steps to the production
Step1:        Fetch enough water down before you begin.

Step2:        Get a bigger bowl of over 50litres, three smaller bowls, a turning stick and a spoon.

Step3:       Add water to one of the smaller bowls and add 5 to 6 table spoon of the caustic soda to the water and turn gently to avoid being hurt.
In another bowl put 1/8 kg of the SLS in water and turn to dissolve, and in the third small bowl add ½ kg of soda ash and add 4 to 5litres of water in the bowl and turn with the stick until it is slight dissolved. Get an eva bottle or any contain to dissolve your colour in water. Put all these aside.

Step4:        Get the bigger bowl, put 1/8kg of natrosol (1/8 is half of ¼ so use your discretion to do this), add 1/8kg of the thickener to it and then add 5litres of water to it. Stir until a solution is formed. Add a little quantity of the soda ash solution to it. If you had used natrosol only without the thickner the solution will become thickened when the soda ash solution is added. Continue to stir. That will not happy here anyway because this is a different method.

Step5: Add 1/4kg of the texapon to the solution in the bigger and stir vigorously to blend. The whole mixture will become foamy and slimy. The texapon is often referred to as the soap because it is foamy and slimy on it own. It is white and thick, so be sure you dissolve it properly so that you have a good production in the end.

Step6: Add 1litre of sulphurnic acid to it and stir, this time put in more effort because the more your stir the thicker it becomes. Sulphurnic acid is also a foamy agent.

Step7: Add the remaining soda ash solution to the production. Stir until it is mixed properly and thickened.

Step8: Add the SLS solution (This is also a foamy agent. It is needed in areas where the water is hard) stir until it is properly mixed. What do see at this point? A finished production? yes a finished production.

Step9: Add 10 to 15litres of water and stir until it is properly mixed.

Step10: Add the caustic soda and stir

Step11: Add the color, 3 to 4 cork of formalin and your chosen perfume to your taste. Stir until it is properly mixed.

Step12: Add more water to get the required volume. After getting the required volume you may mix some soda ash in water and add to it to thicken it. This should be done when the foamy part has gone down and you can clearly see the volume of the soap.

Step 13: cover it and live it for 24hrs so that everything will blend well though you are free to use it after production.

Thank you for taking your time to read this article. Tell a friend about this by sharing it in your social network, and let us help to change our community. You can send us your own method, an article on anything you know how to do, an article that better the lives of other and we will be happy to publish it for the public.