SOME CHEMICALS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS

SOME CHEMICALS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS
Sulphuric acid: It is a forming agent.
Caustic soda: It is a stain removal.
Sodium lorel Sulphate (SLS): It serves as both farming agent and also binds all the other chemicals together.
Soda ash: It serves as a thickener in the production.
Texapon: It is use in farming and cleaning agent.
Nitrosol: Give concentration to the product.
Preservatives: It lasting product.
Colour: To give the product a good look.
Perfume: gives fragrance
Paraffin oil: It is also a chemical binder.
Paraffin wax: It helps to give strength to the product.
Lanoline: It improves texture.
Vitamin E: It fosters hair growth.
Whitener: It makes the production whitish in colour.
Carbonic acid and Lyzol: Kill germs.
Note:
Arrange all your chemicals on the table in order of use before starting your production process.
Always pour chemicals first into a container before adding water, do not pour chemicals inside water. Make sure all chemicals are labelled for easy identification.

LIQUID SOAP PRODUCTION
Equipment
Drum or big bucket: This is where the whole chemicals are mixed together.
Turning stick: This is used to mix the chemicals and how they are mixed together.

Chemicals
Nitrosol
Sulphunic acid    
Texapon
Soda ash
Sodium lorel sulphate (SLS)
Caustic soda
Forming agent
Preservative
Colour (green)
Perfume (lemon grass)

PRODUCTION PROCEDURE
Pour Nitrosol into the drum and add 10 litres of water – mix properly
Mix sulphunic acid and texapon, shake it and pour into the drum
Mix soda ash with 6 litres of water and add in the drum
Mix SLS with 3 litres of water in a bucket and add in drum
Caustic soda n(1 tea spoon)
Add farming agent into the drum
Preservatives and stir properly
Colour
Lastly perfumed.

JELLEN (VASLINE) PRODUCTION
Equipment
Stove
Pot
Small spoon

CHEMICALS
Paraffin oil (4 unit)
Petroleum jelly (8 unit)
Paraffin wax (to taste)
Perfume

PRODUCTION PROCEDURE
Light stove and out the empty clean pot to dry
Pour paraffin oil into the dry pot and allow to heat small
Add petroleum jelly into the pot and allow to dissolve
Add paraffin wax bit by bit to get a desired texture
Collect small quantity in a spoon and place in a container of cool water to solidify. Use your finger to check for the texture, if it is to watery, add a little paraffin wax, but it is too hard, add petroleum jelly, when satisfied with the texture, put down the pot and allow it to cool for like 2.4 minutes after which you add perfume and bottle.
Note: the heat from the stove should be reduced.

ANTISEPTIC
Equipment
Drum or rubber
Turning stick

CHEMICALS
Isopropyl alcohol (ISA): it kills number of bacteria
Pine oil: it forms a cloudy liquid
Chronozol: It is an anti-bacteria in Dettol to kill germs and reduce inflammation
Colour: (brown in water form)
Water

PRODUCTION PROCEDURE
Pour the isopropyl alcohol into drum.
Add pine oil and mix.
Add chronozol and mix properly.
Add colour.
Add water if you like, bootle and coke.

HAIR CREAM
Equipment
Stove
Pot
Spoon

CHEMICALS
Paraffin oil
Paraffin jelly
Lanoline
Glycerine
Vitamin E
Paraffin wax
Colour
Perfume

PRODUCTION
Light stove and put the clean pot to dry under reduced heat.
Pour paraffin oil into the dry pot (6 units).
Add colour (yellow)
Add petroleum jelly and allow it to melt (6 units)
Add lanoline and allow melting (2 units).
Add glycerine and stir (1 unit)
Add vitamin E and stir (0.5 unit)
Add paraffin wax to taste, also allow it to melt.
Collect sample and check the texture. If satisfied bring down the pot and allow cooling for 2 minutes before adding perfume.


AIR FRESHENER
Equipment
Drum or bucket
Stirrer
Chemicals
Methanol
Forming agent
Colour
Water

Production
Pour methanol inside the drum (1 litre)
Add forming agent into the drum and stir until foam start coming out (1 litre).
Add (14 litres) of water and stir.
Add colour and stir
Add fragrance (e.g. lavenda) and stir.
Cover and keep for 10-15 minutes before bottling.

Note: you can add as many as your fragrance as possible, the more the fragrance, the more the spray will last. There are also two types of colour, water colour and oil colour, use oil colour for production that do not contain water while you can use water colour for productions that contains water.