1. Vegetable oil
2. Lye (a corrosive alkaline, commonly sodium hydroxide or also known as caustic soda)
3. Water
4. Essential oil
3. Water
4. Essential oil
Process
Saponification
A chemical reaction that occurs when a vegetable oil (or animal fat) is mixed with a strong alkali, producing soap and glycerine. Water is also present, but does not enter into the chemical reaction.
Product
Soap
Used in
Washing, bathing, cleaning, textile spinning, lubricants
Production facility
Perth, WA
Export
Kabul, Afghanistan
Product
Soap
Used in
Washing, bathing, cleaning, textile spinning, lubricants
Production facility
Perth, WA
Export
Kabul, Afghanistan
Soap use in textile spinning and lubricant? I wonder how it is used as such.
ReplyDeleteSoap is used in textile spinning for washing. Excessive amounts of lanolin (wool grease) in wool makes spinning difficult.
ReplyDeleteSemisolid lubricants such as grease consists of an oil and/or other fluid lubricant that is mixed with a thickener, typically a soap, to form a solid. Perhaps this post was misleading in a sense that the term soap for its use in lubricants is used in the chemical sense, meaning a metallic salt of a fatty acid, which forms an emulsion with the oil.
Brilliant! I didn't expect you to answer the questions but you answered regardless!
ReplyDeleteYes, agreed. My last visit to Tasmania I had brought home a number of sheep wool samples. Put them in small sample plastic bags and stapled the bags. After a while, the inside of these bags were horribly smeared with grease that melted from the wool (Malaysia being a tropical country hence the heat). The grease even seeped out of the stapled bags and smeared the outside making handling the bags a greasy unpleasant ordeal - wools sure contain lots of grease!
Understand. The soap acts as a thickener for the oil and/or other fluid lubricant to produce grease. Brilliant!