HOW TO BLEACH PALM OIL TO BE USED FOR SODA SOAP PRODUCTION

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Palm oil soap making is probably the way your parents or great grand parents make their home made soap.The process involved a reaction called saponification reaction. The process involved reacting your oil with caustic soda which can also be called lye to produce soap.

Bleaching Palm oil for soap production? I hear you…. hmmm well The first time I tried to bleach Palm oil for used in soap production, I nearly burnt down my house. It was my neighbour that saved the day. If not for him, it would have been a different story. When I look back I can’t help but thank God for him. So you see that is the reason this post is very necessary. Kindly bear with me.


That day I wanted to make palm oil soap  for which I needed to bleach palm oil. I put the pot over the stove, lit the stove, poured in the red palm oil into the pot and and it started heating up. Within 5 minutes the pot caught fire. Ha! I was shocked and confused. I screamed, turned the burner off and rushed towards the sink to get some water. Just then my neighbour walked in and screamed ‘Neighbour COVER the pot’ and that was it. I covered the pot  that contained the oil and flame and the flame eventually cooled off. What if my neighbour was not around and then,I would have poured in the water and loss everything.


Needless to say my palm oil was burnt and my palm oil soap experiment was postponed to a later date but at least me and my family was safe from a fire disaster. So please cover your pot when you want to bleach red palm oil please and leave it covered till the oil cools down. Why go through all this just to bleach palm oil right? Bleached palm oil makes your soap have glittering white colour.

The next time I summoned up the courage to bleach palm oil, it went well and I enjoyed the palm oil soap for which I bleached the red palm oil for but I made another mistake I didn’t bleach enough for the soap production.

HERE ARE A FEW TIPS TO KEEP YOU ‘SAFE’ WHEN BLEACHING PALM OIL.

Please COVER your pot while the Palm oil is cooking to prevent a fire hazard.Because palm oil has the tendency to smoke up the house and make you cough, make sure to bleach a substantial amount so you can store it up for the next soap production.Bleach 5 Litres for only 2 hours and turn off heat to ensure the colour is totally gone.Leave the pot covered till the oil cools down completely Takes up to 20 mins for the oil to cool down completely.Bleach Palm oil in a well ventilated kitchen.Filter your bleached palm with a very good clothlike filter.


Ingredients

5 Litres of fresh red palm oil


Instructions

Pour Palm oil in a clean and dry hollow pot.

Cover the pot

Turn on the stove and cook palm oil in the covered pot for 2 hours.Don't open the pot.

Turn off heat after 2 hours.Leave pot till oil cools down completely which takes about 1 hour.

Use immediately for your soap production or store in a bottle for later.

WarningOil will congeal a bit on storage. Just run  hot water over the bottle when you want to use it.Subscribe to this blog to know when new post are publish on how to produce soda soap with our bleached palm oil.
Congrats on reading this guide,now you can bleach palm oil for soap making.