How to Make Soap at Home From Maize (Corn) Flour
It is common for home soap makers to use common ingredients like caustic soda, palm oil, Jerry powder, dye and perfume to make soap at home, which they may use for home washing or start a local manufacturing business.
If you are home soap maker, what you may not know is that, you can replace a few ingredients with others to lower overall cost of production in your soap local manufacturing.
This article will give in detail on new ingredients and step by step procedures on how you can make home soap from corn flour and cooking oil, as your ingredients in soap making to lower your cost of production.
Before we go further, you should know that three main ingredients required to make soap at home are, caustic soda, oil (palm or coconut oil) and water. In our discussion, palm oil will be replaced with home cooking oil, which will further be mixed with corn flour in our corn manufacturing soap.
Steps Required to Locally Manufactured Soap From Maize (Corn) flour
The following are the steps you need to do to successfully manufacture home soap from your corn flour.
Step 1: Gather required materials
The first step for you to successfully manufacture corn soap, you will need the following materials and ingredients; Caustic soda, water, cooking oil (which will replace palm oil), maize (corn) flour, salt, basin, cups, stirring material, among others.
Step 2: Measure required materials and mix
The second step to locally manufactured corn flour soap is to measure the right amount of ingredients and mix. In our case, we will use home cup as local measuring material.
Take a half cup of caustic soda and put it in a plastic basin and add two cups of water. Once two cups of water are added to half a cup of caustic soda, stir so that water should mix caustic soda in an exothermic reaction. Which means, heat will be coming out of the solution.
Measure 2 to 3 cups of maize (corn) flour and add to the caustic soda solution and keep on stirring.
Measure 3 cups of cooking oil and add it to the mixture of caustic soda, while you keep on stirring. At this time, you should also add dye colour and all other additives, like perfume, Jerry powder, among others.
Once the mixture has started to form porridge (hardening) like mixture, you should proceed to step 3.
Step 3: Transfer the porridge like mixture into soap mold
The next and last step to make corn soap is to transfer porridge like mixture into a soap mold. The width and length of your soap will depend on your choice of soap mold.
Once you transfer the hardening mixture into soap mold, wait for 72 hours for it to harden further. After 72 hours, your corn soap will be ready for home use.
In conclusion, this article has given in details on how you can locally manufacture corn soap. Among others, the article has uncovered that, gathering required materials, mixing the right amount of ingredients and transferring the hardening mixture into soap mold, are some of the steps which you will use to make soap from maize flour.