Date of Award

7-1949

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Chemistry

First Advisor

Clifford R. Haymaker

Abstract

My interest in liquid potassium soaps began a number of years ago. At this time I was employed at a company that manufactured various cleaning preparations, one of these being a liquid soap prepared by the interaction of potassium hydroxide and cocoanut oil. It was there that I first became acquainted with techniques and problems encountered in the soap industry.

The above mentioned notes took place during the middle of World War II, and consequently the author became familiar with some of the different fats and oils that were substituted for the then unavailable Philippine coconut oil. All of the substitute raw materials were products of the United States, and available on a priority basis. Some of these materials resulted in soaps unqualified to meet the requirements of an exacting company. Others produced tine soaps, but not at a cost low enough to meet the postwar trend toward lower production costs.

It was because of these factors that an attempt was made to select a material that would result in a suitable substitute or compound that would stretch a limited supply of coconut oil. Corn oil was chosen as it is readily obtained here in the United States, and the cost of corn oil is considerably lower than that of coconut oil. The final and most important point from a merchandising viewpoint is, a product superior or at least equal to that of a pure coconut oil soap. With these points in mind the experimentation with corn oil began.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty or the College of Liberal Arts Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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