Soap making is a mega money yielding machine in the sense that soap is a daily used goods that we can not do without. Their are different kinds of soap, but am guiding you on how to produce bathing bar soap because the raw materials needed in this soap making is affordable and readily available and it yields more gain and returns.

Soap making is a business you can venture into in this period of reccession, with little capital worth of #2000.

Soap making business is lucrative and offers reliable and constant revenue for business men and women who are producing and those marketing soap wholesale or retail. If you are in doubt, please ask the nearest soap seller on your street how often he or she visits the market to replenish his or her stock.

Different types of soap are produced daily and they include – laundry soap, bathing soap, antiseptic soap, detergent and a host of others. The modes of producing them the chemicals used are slightly different.

Our focus here is on how to produce bathing soap on a small scale. There are various methods of production, but two are outstanding. The hot and cold method. The hot method involves boiling the chemicals in a mixture.

CHEMICALS
A Oil: the commonly used oil for soap production includes.
Palm kernel oil
Fatty acid
Bleached palm oil (tests raw palm oil and make sure it does not contain common salt by adding little quantity of fermented caustic soda into it. Then mix with stick, if it blends together the oil is okay for use
B Caustic soda: this is the base chemical used in the production of soap. It is whitish in colour and sugar like
C Soda ash: increases the quantity of soap also acts as a foaming agent improves hardness of soap. It is whitish in colour and garri like
D Sodium sulphate: it increases the quantity of soap and increases the durability of soap. it is whitish in colour and in powdery form
E Kaolin or calcium: it acts as a forming agent. it is whitish in colour and in powdery state
G Colourant: this determine the colour of soap, it might liquid or powder
H Perfume: this determine the odour of soap e.g rose, h&R, B&B, Apple, Lemon, Blue Water, passion etc.
I Disinfectants: Examples of this are Lysol or Dettol, Benzyl Benzoate, Igarsan, Trilosan and Chloroxylenol. They are all use for killing Germs

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chemicals available are:
soda ash
caustic soda
sulphonic acid
palm kernel oil
foam boosters
sls
texapon
colourant

we also have chemicals for water treatment also like
chlorine,lime,alum,soda ash,caustic soda ,astra chlorine tablets,water clarifier and so on.