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Title: Soap-Making Manual

Author: Edgar George Thomssen

Release date: October 22, 2010 

Pages: 580

MB. 1.6

TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER 1

Raw Materials Used in Soap Making 1-30

1. Soap Defined 1

Oils and Fats 1-2

3. Saponification Defined 2-3

4. Fats and Oils Used in Soap Manufacture 3-4

Fullers' Earth Process for Bleaching Tallow 4-6

Method for Further Improvement of Color in Tallow 6

Vegetable Oils 6-9

Chrome Bleaching of Palm Oil 9-12

Air Bleaching of Palm Oil 12-16

5. Rancidity of Oils and Fats 16-18

Prevention of Rancidity 18

6. Chemical Constants of Oils and Fats 18-19

7. Oil Hardening or Hydrogenating 19-21

8. Grease 21-22

9. Rosin (Colophony, Yellow Rosin, Resina) 22-23

10. Rosin Saponification 23-24

11. Naphthenic Acids 24-25

12. Alkalis 25-26

Caustic Soda 26

Caustic Potash 26-28

Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash) 28-29

Potassium Carbonate 29

13. Additional Material Used in Soap Making 29-30