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1. Have the Soap Craft Honor.
For tips and instruction see Soap Craft.
2. What safety equipment should be used when making soap with and without lye?
With lye - Safety glasses, long sleeves, long pants, gloves, close toe shoes, hair net or head covering, mask, accurate scale
Without Lye - Pot holder, hair net or hair covering, gloves, accurate scale.
3. Name three types of lye. Explain what lye is and why it is needed to make soap.
sodium hydroxide (NaOH) - potassium hydroxide (KOH) lithium Hydroxide (LiOH)
Additionally rubidium Hydroxide (RbOH) caesium hydroxide (CsOH)
Lye is a strong alkali which is highly soluble in water producing caustic basic solutions. The Lye is need to react with the fat to form a new product which is a surfactants. Surfactants are molecules that spontaneously bond with each other, in the case of Lye and fact they form soap.
4. Describe what happens when a strong base is added to an oil or fat. What is it called?
When a triglyceride (fat, oil or lipid) is treated with a strong base (lye), it cleaves the ester bond, releasing fatty acid salts (soaps) and glycerol.
Saponification
5. What makes “hard” soap versus “soft” soap?
6. What types of fats can be used in making soap?
7. What is used in making soap transparent?
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of soap and detergent?
9. What makes soap float?
10. Learn the following verses: Jeremiah 2:22, Malachi 3:2.
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before Me,” says the Lord God.
“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderers’ soap.
