Soap Noodles TFM 78% Min

Brief Overview

Creating soap noodles involves the saponification process, employing sodium hydroxide to react with various vegetable oils such as palm, coconut, olive, and animal fats like tallow. Among the earliest soap varieties known, soap noodles are widely embraced by most soap manufacturers due to their efficiency in rapid soap production, especially when tweaking flavors, colors, and other ingredients. The final soap product can be customized further through additional techniques like pressing, stamping, and molding.

Manufacturing Process

The primary approach in soap manufacturing is direct saponification, where triglyceride molecules undergo a reaction with sodium hydroxide. Hydrolysis breaks down fats and oils into fatty acids and glycerol. Following this, sodium hydroxide neutralizes the fatty acids. The oil or fat undergoes trans-esterification with methanol, leading to the formation of methyl esters. These methyl esters are then saponified with sodium hydroxide to create soap, with methanol produced as a byproduct.

Detergent Industry

The mixture is put through rollers or a worm screw to produce a thin sheet of soap. High pressure is applied while the liquid is stirred throughout the screw's length, extruding numerous layers of soap through a perforated endplate. The homogenized soap is crushed with a huge worm screw extruder, often called a plodder, to produce several layers of soap.

To create many types of soap, such as laundry, toilet, medicinal, and high-lather soap, is facilitated by the specifications of various kinds of soap noodles.