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Why coconut oil or palm oil better than any kind of oil?

Update: 10/15/2014

Coconut oil contains essential fatty acid chain (eg lauric) with 12 carbon materials form a chain. For soap making, the short carbon chain oils have better characteristics. Palm stearing is a long carbon chain fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms in a chain.

             So why soap is made from pure coconut oil than other soaps? The rate of sodium ions mainly. Soap is a surfactant disable the natural pressure of the water surface. The sodium ion adhesion molecules socks 'dirty' in the cleaning process; so water can flush impurities. The rate of the chemical sodium soap containing 12 carbon (lauric fatty acid) is higher than the rate of chemical sodium soap containing 18 carbon chains (stearic fatty acids). Soaps containing sodium ions would have better cleaning properties.

             Benefits of the cooling process?

             - The soap factory scale use of palm oil and other vegetable oils and these oils must be refined (through RBD) and then boiled soap. This requires a high energy and a lot of expense.

             - Coconut oil is extracted from fresh coconut good quality need not refined or boiled to produce a product of high quality soap. And manufacturing process also requires energy.

             -In the heating process, glycerin is often removed. Cooling process removes glycerin soap.

             Why remove glycerin soap?

             - Glycerin (formulas C3H8O3) is a specialty solvents and soluble in water.

             - So, glycerin is useful in improving soaps and cleansing properties.

             - Glycerin is not affected by the hardness or salinity; so it is "clean" in river water and brackish water.

             - Glycerin is good for the skin and helps prevent the "dry skin" and chapped.
 

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