What ingredients soap contain?

Answer 1

if you are going to prepare soft soap enema B.P10mlthen... its ingredients are SOFT SOAP........5gm(official formula 100ml).........0.5gm(reduced for 10ml)

PURIFIED WATER....... quantity suff. to make 100ml........Q.s to make 10ml

Procedure:

1)dissolve weighed amount of soft soap in small quantity of warm purified water.

2)add sufficient warm purified water to produce 10ml.

Uses:

its used as stimulating enema for evacuation of bowel.

Storage:

preserve in a well closed container.

SOFT SOAP:

BP 2005 (Soft Soap). It is made by the interaction of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide with a suitable vegetable oil or oils or their fatty acids. It may be coloured with chlorophyll or not more than 0.015% of a suitable green soap dye. A yellowish-white to green or brown, unctuous substance. Soluble in water and in alcohol.

USP 29 (Green Soap). It is made by the saponification of suitable vegetable oils, excluding coconut oil and palm kernel oil, without the removal of glycerol. The method given in the USP 29 involves mixing the oil with oleic acid and to the heated mixture adding potassium hydroxide dissolved in glycerol and water. The homogeneous emulsion is then adjusted to weight with hot water. A yellowish-white to brownish- or greenish-yellow, transparent to translucent, soft unctuous mass with a slight, characteristic odour.

Uses

Soft soap is used to remove incrustations in chronic scaly skin diseases such as psoriasis () and to cleanse the scalp before the application of lotions. A solution in industrial methylated spirit, with the addition of solvent ether, has been used to cleanse the skin. A solution of soft soap in warm water has been used as an enema to soften impacted faeces but should be avoided as it may inflame the colonic mucosa; other measures are now employed to soften impacted faeces (see Constipation, ). Soft soap is an ingredient of Soap Spirit (BP 2005) and Green Soap Tincture (USP 29).

Potash soap (linseed oil soap) has been used in the preparation of liquid soaps. Hard soap (castile soap) and curd soap were formerly used as pill excipients and hard soap was also formerly used in the preparation of plasters.

Answer 2

Adverse Effects and Treatment of Soft soap:

Soaps and anionic detergents, in general, may be irritant to the skin by removing natural oils and may produce redness, soreness, cracking and scaling, and papular dermatitis. There may be some irritation of the eyes and mucous membranes and this limits the use of soap enemas. Ingestion of anionic detergents may cause gastrointestinal irritation with nausea, diarrhoea, intestinal distension, and occasionally vomiting. Treatment is symptomatic.

Answer 3

Commercial bar soaps contain sodium tallowate, sodium cocoate, sodium palmate and similar ingredients, all of which are the results of reacting solid fats (tallow, coconut oil, and palm kernel oil respectively) with lye.