Scheikunde: The non-existing soap factor of traditional or green dish soap
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Scheikunde
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VWO / Gymnasium
A paper on the non-existing soap factor of traditional or green dish soap. With data from the experiments, conclusions can be drawn. The data has been visually used in the paper to increase the reliability of the research.
The non-existing soap factor of the amount of soap. Soap works better
traditional or green dish soap when more or greater micelles are formed.
Research has shown that besides the
Summary relation between micelles and washing
Oil and soap form, in an aqueous ability, also the relation between the
environment, a stable emulsion. These volume of the emulsion layer and the
emulsions are a measure of the washing quality of the soap exists. We wondered
effect/capability of the soap. This raises what the relation between the amount of
the question of the relationship between soap and the volume of the emulsion layer
the amount of soap and the volume of this in a composition of sunflower oil and water
emulsion layer. This relation was is.
investigated by swerving a combination of With this question, research was done by
sunflower oil and distilled water with Vincenta Stein and Steven Debar for the
different amounts of green dish soap and Milieu Institute Amsterdam. The findings
measuring the height of the emulsion were that there was a linear relationship
layer. The amount of green dish soap and between the amount of soap and the
the volume of the emulsion layer were volume of the emulsion layer. After
plotted against each other in a graph. reading the paper we were doubting the
There appeared to be a linear relation- the results and conclusions they presented.
so-called soap factor (in mL per g)- That is why we did the following study
between the volume of the emulsion layer which is supposed to prove the opposite.
and the amount of green dish soap. After a Our hypothesis is that there is no linear
new study, this supposed linear relation relationship between the two and that the
seems to be non-existing. In fact, there first research was improperly done,
was no proof of such relation found. resulting in false conclusions. We believe
Therefore, the first study was found this because there were minimal results to
unreliable. support the claims and the trend line, they
set up is debatable.
To test this hypothesis, we performed the
Introduction exact same experiments they performed in
Traditional green dish soap consists of the first research. Which was; different
fats, oils and potassium or sodium amounts of green dish soap are swerved
hydroxide. Green dish soap consists with distilled water and sunflower oil. For
mainly out of fatty acid chains. An example every amount of green dish soap, the
is a soap out of palmitic acid, in which the volume of the emulsion layer needs to be
proton (H+) is replaced by Na+ or K+ measured.
(figure 1).
Figure 1. Soap, Palmitic acid Experimental Procedure
To measure the volume of the emulsion
layer, we added an amount of green dish
soap with sunflower oil.
Approximately 5000 years soap has been Figure 2. Ingredient list
used to clean. By adding water to soap, fat
Ingredients of green dish soap
and dirt are much more likely to resolve
than when you would add it to just water. Agents de surface anioniques
When a soap solution is added to an
amount of oil, an emulsion layer is formed, Agents de surface non-ioniques
among other things.
This emulsion layer contains micelles, in Agents de surface amphotères
which polar fatty acid tails capture the oil Parfums (linalool, benzyl salicylate)
and the polar fatty acid heads ensure
solubility in water. The amount of oil which Agents conservateurs (methylchloroisothiazolinone
can resolve in water with soap depends on and methylisothiazolinone)
, For the execution we have used:
Sunflower oil (5 ml), Distilled water (5 ml),
Measuring cylinders in ml, Test tubes,
Pipette, Digital balance and Graan dish
soap which is measured in the following
amounts.
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