Soap Manufacturing Technology

Soap Manufacturing Technology, Second Edition, is the most authoritative and up-to-date book on soap technology available today. Editor and contributing author Luis Spitz leads a world-renowned team in providing comprehensive information on all components of soap manufacturing including formulation, performance evaluation, cleansing systems, and more. This new edition includes two new chapters, Integrated Saponification and Drying Systems and Laundry Bars, and the others are completely revised and updated.

Includes new chapters and figures, tables, and text updated from the first editionServes as a technical reference book ideal for both experienced and beginning soap producers and suppliersProvides an overview of the AOCS methods used for the evaluation of soap and soap productsIncludes two new chapters on Integrated Saponification and Drying Systems and Laundry Bars

1: Implications of Soap Structure for Formulation and User Properties

2: Soap Structure and Phase Behavior

3: Formulation of Traditional Soap Cleansing Systems

4: Chemistry, Formulation, and Performance of Syndet and Combo Bars

5: Transparent and Translucent Soaps

6: Semi-Boiled and Integrated Saponification and Drying Systems

7: Soap Drying Systems

8: Bar Soap Finishing

9: Soap, Soap/Synthetic, and Synthetic Laundry Bars

10: Multicolored and Multicomponent Soap Manufacturing Systems

11: Soap Bar Performance Evaluation Methods

12: Glossary