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Assessment of the Physicochemical Properties of Selected Commercial Soaps Manufactured and Sold in Kenya

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dc.contributor.author Omwoyo, Wesley Nyaigoti
dc.contributor.author Vivian, Onyango P.
dc.contributor.author Nathan, Oyaro
dc.contributor.author Osano, Aloys
dc.contributor.author Mesopirr, Linda
dc.date.accessioned 2016-03-05T11:55:41Z
dc.date.available 2016-03-05T11:55:41Z
dc.date.issued 2014-07
dc.identifier.citation Vivian, O. P., Nathan, O., Osano, A., Mesopirr, L., & Omwoyo, W. N. (2014). Assessment of the Physicochemical Properties of Selected Commercial Soaps Manufactured and Sold in Kenya. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 2014. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1913
dc.description.abstract Soap is sodium or potassium salt of fatty acid produced by saponification reaction. Soap is used on a day to day basis by households. The physicochemical properties of soaps determine their quality and hence determine their efficiency and their cleansing properties. It remains obscure the quality of the soaps that are sold in the local markets in Kenya and thus the need to assess them. Eight commercial washing soaps were analyzed for Matter insoluble in alcohol, moisture content, total fat matter, free caustic alkalinity, Percentage chloride, pH and Total alkali according to documented methods of analysis. Values of matter insoluble in alcohol ranged between 6.22% to 61.80%, moisture content ranged between 10.91% to 22.69%, total fat matter ranged between 22.64% to 70.51%, free caustic alkali ranged between 0.00% to 0.06%, percentage chloride ranged between 0.07% to 1.01%, pH ranged between 10.63 to 11.71 and total alkali ranged between 0.00% to 0.99%. This study showed that the free caustic alkalinity of all the analyzed soap samples were below the KEBS set limits hence no adverse effects on the cloth or skin, and the pH values for all analyzed soaps were within KEBS limits. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject Soap en_US
dc.subject Moisture Content en_US
dc.subject Total Fat Matter en_US
dc.subject Percentage Chloride en_US
dc.subject Saponification en_US
dc.title Assessment of the Physicochemical Properties of Selected Commercial Soaps Manufactured and Sold in Kenya en_US
dc.type Other en_US


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