EXPERIMENT 101

Saponification

As we all know, saponification is a simple process to produce soap from fats and lye. As some of us have not had their hands on in this experiment in Form 5, we decided to give it a shot!

The apparatus and materials needed are listed below.

Materials:

10cm3 palm oil

50cm3 NaOH

Distilled water

NaCl

Apparatus:

250cm3 Beaker

Glass rod

Bunsen burner,tripod stand

filter funnel

Filter paper

Measuring cylinder

spatula

The procedure are as follows.

1)10cm3 palm oil and 50cm3 NaOH is poured into a 250cm3 beaker and heated for about 10minutes.

2) Then,100cm3 distilled water is added into the heated mixture. Simultaneously, add in three spatulas of NaCl.

3)Heat it fro another 5 to 10minutes and leave it to cool.

4)Mixture is then filtered using filter funnel.

5) The sediments are rinsed with distilled water.

There you have it! Non-fragrant oily soap! :D

Filtration process with filter funnel and filter paper. Those floating sediments are soap :)

Pei Wen, looking happy.

Jit cherng, flashing his pearly whites.

Jan jhin, with his poker face. ):