Preparation Of Local Soap With Woodish Derived From The Calyx And The Corolla Of Palm Flower (ejeasis Guineensis)

CHAPTER   ONE 1.0     INTRODUCTION1.1     BACKGROUNDSoap is the earliest detergent know to man and apparently was first made by the Romans from animal fats and oil and wood ash which is an alkali that contains potassium carbonate, sodium, potassium hydroxide called potash leached from the wood ash (Robert, 1994).  It is also an unsaturated ester since an ester can be split into an alcohol and a carboxylic acid by hydrolysis.  Meaning that it does not contain all the solutes that can be dissolve at a particular temperature (Kirt Othmer, 1994).  Also soap is a metallic salt of a fatty acid becau…