Question

mention the essential material to prepare the soap in the laboratory describe in brief the test of determine the nature (acidic/alkalime of the reaction mixture of the saponification reaction

Answer 1

ethanol and ethanol acid

Answer 2

The essential materials required for the preparation of soap are fats, oils and sodium hydroxide.

Sodium hydroxide is also called as lye.

This lye is a strong base and is alkali in nature.

Some times potassium hydroxide is also used in the preparation of soap.

This potassium hydroxide is called potash.

The popular test performed to test nature of product is litmus paper test.

If the colour of the litmus paper turns blue, the product is basic (alkali) in nature.