Soap and Cast
Me and my humanities partner decided to make a soap carving for humanities but instead of buying soap we made it in chemistry. The purpose of this project is to make a soap hand and a scent to make the soap smell good.
The scientific Method
Question: Will the soap turn out smelling good?
Materials: 5 Oz Olive oil, 10 Oz Coconut oil, 4.5 Oz Water, 2.39 Oz Pure Lye, Essential oil juniper, Goggles, Metal pot,
Experiment steps:
1. Measure all the ingredients
2. Place coconut oil on slow cooker
3. When coconut oil is finished melting, add the olive oil
4. Then separately add the lye to water
5. Add the lye/Water mixture to the pot
6. Let it cook on high for 3 minutes
7. After pour the substance in a blender
8. Blend until you see a trace
9. Then pour the substance into the “cast” (Glove)
Experience:
Throughout this project I got really stressed because we had to count on other people just to be able to do it but in the end it worked out and it was a lot of fun. After we had already extracted our scent and we actually started making our soap it was a relief to start but it went right into more stress because one of the materials we were using was Lye which is very dangerous so we had to be very careful. Because we didn’t have very much time to work we had to skip some steps so the making of the soap went really fast. We used a blender instead of stirring for 40 min and that saved a lot of time but when it was time to put the soap in the glove mold we had no idea what to do, so andrew and JP took one for the team and held the glove open while we poured but once there hands started to burn from the lye they had to go so I did the dirty work. When the lye got on my hand I didn’t feel it at first but over time it started to sting and then really burn so I had to run to the sink and wash it off. In the end we got our soap out of the glove and it was very deformed but that was ok because we thought it was awesome.
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Science Behind It:
When my partner and I decided to make soap we didn’t expect there to be a lot of science to it. Soap is a water soluble thats is made of oils. Soap molecules have two parts, ionic heads and hydrocarbon head. These two molecules are like ying and yang. Ionic head formed from metal components of hydroxide. This part of the molecule is hydrophilic meaning it will interact with water. Hydrocarbon tail is the opposite of the ionic head. Hydrocarbon tail does not like interacting with water. What happens when soaps are put to action is that the ionic molecule helps absorb all the unwanted fat and oils and while this is happening the hydrocarbon tail is as far from water. The hydrocarbon turns all those unwanted fats and oils into bubbles making it easy to get rid of.
Me and my humanities partner decided to make a soap carving for humanities but instead of buying soap we made it in chemistry. The purpose of this project is to make a soap hand and a scent to make the soap smell good.
The scientific Method
Question: Will the soap turn out smelling good?
Materials: 5 Oz Olive oil, 10 Oz Coconut oil, 4.5 Oz Water, 2.39 Oz Pure Lye, Essential oil juniper, Goggles, Metal pot,
Experiment steps:
1. Measure all the ingredients
2. Place coconut oil on slow cooker
3. When coconut oil is finished melting, add the olive oil
4. Then separately add the lye to water
5. Add the lye/Water mixture to the pot
6. Let it cook on high for 3 minutes
7. After pour the substance in a blender
8. Blend until you see a trace
9. Then pour the substance into the “cast” (Glove)
Experience:
Throughout this project I got really stressed because we had to count on other people just to be able to do it but in the end it worked out and it was a lot of fun. After we had already extracted our scent and we actually started making our soap it was a relief to start but it went right into more stress because one of the materials we were using was Lye which is very dangerous so we had to be very careful. Because we didn’t have very much time to work we had to skip some steps so the making of the soap went really fast. We used a blender instead of stirring for 40 min and that saved a lot of time but when it was time to put the soap in the glove mold we had no idea what to do, so andrew and JP took one for the team and held the glove open while we poured but once there hands started to burn from the lye they had to go so I did the dirty work. When the lye got on my hand I didn’t feel it at first but over time it started to sting and then really burn so I had to run to the sink and wash it off. In the end we got our soap out of the glove and it was very deformed but that was ok because we thought it was awesome.
.
Science Behind It:
When my partner and I decided to make soap we didn’t expect there to be a lot of science to it. Soap is a water soluble thats is made of oils. Soap molecules have two parts, ionic heads and hydrocarbon head. These two molecules are like ying and yang. Ionic head formed from metal components of hydroxide. This part of the molecule is hydrophilic meaning it will interact with water. Hydrocarbon tail is the opposite of the ionic head. Hydrocarbon tail does not like interacting with water. What happens when soaps are put to action is that the ionic molecule helps absorb all the unwanted fat and oils and while this is happening the hydrocarbon tail is as far from water. The hydrocarbon turns all those unwanted fats and oils into bubbles making it easy to get rid of.