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MY NEXT SEMINAR WILL BE IN ENUGU AND ABA AND I THINK THEY WILL BE THE LAST SEMINAR FOR THE YEAR. WOW, THE YEAR IS ALMOST OFF, HERE IS A FOOD FOR THOUGHT: I MAY NOT HAVE GOTTEN TO WHERE I WANT TO BE BUT I AM NOT WHERE I USED TO BE

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onyeakwanga:
Have been so busy with the tides of the season. we just have to start somewhere as we make progress i will list other products we are likely going to touch in this thread.

we will start first of all with the production of bar soap. it is an everyday demand and everybody uses it no matter who you are likewise detergent. so you have a good market demand for the product.


PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR BAR SOAP.

There are two major process or system (i.e method) involved in the production of this bar soap. they are as follows
1 COOL SYSTEM and

2 HOT SYSTEM also known as the MECHANIZED PROCESS



the two types of system will give you bar soap but the quality and also the profit obtained from the two processes are not the the same



I want to also let you know that in any production process there are four basic indispensable factors that come into play which you must be thoroughly conversant with if you must make a success out of your production venture. they are referred to as:

THE BASICS OF PRODUCTION

They are as follows:

1 THE SOLUTION

2 THE SYSTEM

3 THE SEQUENCE

4 THE SKELETON





We will continue in the next post. just get your paper and pen ready for a lot of eye opening info on this thread. You are learning from the mentor(one who is in the field) and not from the teacher(one who was taught), so relax as i unveil to you free of charge) what we have been teaching for years now in seminars


ask any question you want to ask on any product and you will get the answers

make sure you read my blog www.howtoproduceitems.blog.com

you can also drop your location here so that i will get you updated on when our seminar will be coming up close to your area. our seminar is free of charge, i.e no school fees involved, participants only register and then make a contribution for the materials used for the practicals


In the next post i will answer your questions and also explain those concepts above

onyeakwanga:
HAPPY SUNDAY TO EVERYONE

johnnobles:
Bros am interested in the bar soap production using cold process. What are the simple machines I can use in production and how do I source for it. I intend going into large scale

onyeakwanga:
NOW THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE PRODUCTION OF SOAP IS THE SOAP RATIO AND THIS RATIO IS NOTHING BUT THE CAUSTIC SODA TO PALM KERNEL OIL RATIO AND IT IS 1:2 RATIO. NOW BEFORE WE GO ON MORE, LET SOMEBODY TRY TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU UNDERSTAND BY THAT RATIO AND THEN I WILL COME IN. IN YOUR EXPLANATION TRY TO MAKE MENTION OF THE CONCENTRATION OF THE CAUSTIC SODA. I AM WAITING

onyeakwanga:
I expected somebody to give the answer but none surfaced.
okay just like we all eat garri, when you make it and it is too thick you add more water to it and if its too light u add more garri to it, so in the same way when the mark is at 1100 or 1200 what it means is that there is much water and so we need more caustic soda to get the right mark and when the mark is above 1300 it means that the caustic soda is too much and so we need to add more water to get it back to the desired right mark which is 1300.

so from the above explanation you can see that you do not need a pre determined quantity of water or a pre determined quantity of caustic soda but the quantity of both to be used is determined by the hydrometer
I know that you would have loved to have a particular quantity of each written out so as to make matters east for you, yes it is possible but why I do not recommend that one nor teach it in my seminars is because it is not reliable especially if you are producing for commercial purposes but if you are producing for personal consumption then you can decide to use that one.
nobledeals once asked something like that and I said in the reply that hydrometer is not expensive and it is preferred to measurements it is sold #350 only .

There are two reasons why you should not use measurements in the production of soap ( except for personal consumption). they are as follows:
1 there are two types of water which are soft water and hard water and both of then do not give the same reaction with caustic soda when the mixture takes place. this is because the hard water contains magnesium and calcium but the soft water do not . so the outcome of their dissolutions vary and this is why you must use a hydrometer to avoid low quality product.
2. different companies produce caustic soda and so the molar concentration of that of company x may not be the same as that of company y and so if you depend on a particular measurement you may be disappointed especially if you are used to one particular company and you go to buy only to discover that they don't have that stock again ....
....to be continued