SOLID SOAP FROM CRUDE PALM OIL FOR COTTAGE INDUSTRY SMALL BUSINESS

Abstract

Global demand for soap is increasing rapidly especially in the cosmetic industry. Major productions of commercial soap usually contain a lot of preservative and additive that might cause harm to health. This study aims to manually extracted crude palm oil (CPO) and to make soap from different ratio of crude palm oil (CPO) and refine palm oil (RPO). In this study, five soap formulation were representing the ratio of CPO in the soap consist of 100%, 75%, 50%, 25% and 0%. The soaps were analyzed for alkalinity and hardness. For alkalinity, the pH of soap samples was ranged from 10.18 to 10.48 in vary ratio of CPO. The hardness of prepared soap did not influence by the ratio of CPO and RPO. We concluded that the manually extracted CPO able to produce for making soap in cottage industry small business