SCRIPT CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT: MAKING SOAP

Men: Hi, this experiment we can do today is not a new one. We practice about 4000 years old. And we can relate it back to heath and we can make a soap. Women: Before we start the experiment, lets look at what we need. We need, some kind of fats, tap-water and sodium hydroxide. Women: The one common use the sodium hydroxide is a dryining cleaner. So, best to view this for our experiment. But, remember to be carefull because consentrate the solution of sodium hydroxide is very corrosive. And when healing the solution always wear proper protection gear. We will also needed pattern something to stirred, 2 thermometers, a beaker and a spoon, a scale, a multimaker soap mold and plastic wrap. Women: The ammont of sodium hydroxide you need its should be how much and what type of fat to use. Today, we can use to combinate from the different fat. We can use coconut butter, rapeseed oil and olive oil. These was samples tactic combine with they grams a multiple by 0.13 to get the amount of sodium hydroxide to use. Women: Alright lets do it. Well use 100 gram of coconut butter, 100 gram of rapessed oil and 100 gram of olive oil. And now we can calculate how much the sodium hydroxide we will need. Women: For the water, we need about double the amount compared the sodium hydroxide. But before we dissolved the sodium hydroxide we need to get proper protection wear. Women: And now, come to the most critical part of the experiment. So listen up. When we dissolved of sdium hydroxide, make sure to be in a well done to lead area rim in outside. Make sure the real amount of sodium hydroxide, and then carefully pour it in to the water while strirring. Its very important that we dissolved the sodium hydroxide in the water and not the other way around. This solution is not just very basic, the temperature has also changes. Women: When we dissolved the sodium hydroxide in the water, the solution gets really hot. So, one tips on solution to cool down a little bit before we mix to the fats. In fat we want both solution to be around 50OC. So not hiding the fats, we want the sodium hydroxide solution to cook. When the two solution are bought at 50oC. Its time to mix them.

We slowly pour the sodium hydroxide solution in to the mixture fats while continue mixture it. With your teacher approval, now the sodium hydroxide solution isnt concetrated anymore. Its okay to work without protection gear as long as you carefull. Women: Now, the two solution are mixed. But its not enough. Now we can keep on stirring for about 50 to 60 minutes until they sheaf hard mixture, so I sugest you guys to trained do this. While you wait for a mix to get ready, you can prepare your soap mold. Good idea if you use a large mold and line the bottom with plastic wrap. After about one hour stirring, your mixture should be ready. Women: And all we have to do now, it is pouring in to mold. Spread out evenly, and dont make stack, because it will expel when its dry. And now, we just leave it like this, for 2 days. After 2 days, take the blok soap around the mold and slice into a small pieces. And then leave the pieces dry for about 4-5 weeks. During this time, the pieces of soap will be decreased a lot Men: All right, and after few weeks, you soap will looks something like this. If you want to soap smell different, you can added different fragrances or spices to the mixture. All right, here is a checking question. When we use the soap, how its actually work?. Oh, thats all for today. Good luck.