1. Environmental Soap Making
Clean Up Your Act
Environmental
Soap Making

2. Traditional Soaps
Soap-nut
Soapwort
Soap-lilly

3. What do soaps do for you? Soaps are salts of fatty acids
Soap is attracted to both non-polar and polar molecules

4. Chemistry of soap
Soap is formed from glycerol or fats by reacting it with lye.
‘Superfatting’
Detergants

5. Soap and Biodiesel Transesterfication :
Triglycerides + Methanol = Methyl esters + Glycerol

6. Health and Safety
Heat

7. How to make soap Melt Soap base Add 1 drop of dye to mould
Add 1 drop fragrance to mould
Add glitter, petals, etc. to mould
Pour soap into the soap mould
Leave to set