When you make soap you have a long hydrocarbon chain (fatty acid?) that reacts with a base lets say NaOH. So what are the products that you get and which one do you discard and which one is the soap?
PLease help me!
and thanks so much in advance
In chemistry we made soap using NaOH, H2O, Borax, ammonia, and lard. I need to know what chemical reactions happened while making the soap. Also some of the questions are asking about ionic and covalent compounds in the soap.
im new at this, and im about to start making my first soaps and i read somewhere to add sugar, but i just want to know why. thanks!
sorry, i mean what is THE purpose. and im also not sure if this the category i should be posting in, so i appologize for that too!