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One of the plants is a palm tree.

The oil is extracted as palm oil/

Palm oil is then boiled with caustic soda is large vats to produce sodium palmate ( a type of soap).

Olive oil is another possibility.

The commonest oil is stearic acid. to form sodium stearate.

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