"Tea seed oil?"
Chen Xiangdong was suspicious.
Lu Miao nodded, looked at Fu Jingyou in the passenger seat and said:
"And Brother You, please help me weigh the citric acid I bought before."
"Okay."
Fu Jingyou nodded and responded.
Chen Xiangdong's attention was always on rapeseed oil. When he got some time, he asked:
"I know where you can find tea seed oil, but what do you need tea seed oil for to make soap?"
Lu Miao explained:
"Different base oils will produce different soap effects..."
After a pause, Lu Miao continued to talk about the situation in the soap factory:
"I've learned that the soap factory can rent production lines, and the minimum is once a week. There are several materials that you can choose from, but they are too limited... We are still in the experimental stage now, and we will definitely try a few more. The materials are good, otherwise wouldn’t it be a waste just to use the rented space?”
Chen Xiangdong nodded, understanding half of the words and not understanding the other half.
Whether it is vegetable oil or animal oil, it is inevitable to be greasy.
But isn’t soap a cleaning product for bathing and laundry?
Could it be that it's still made of oil?
Chen Xiangdong was a little confused, but Lu Miao said that if he wanted it, he should get some first and come back to see.
Thinking about it, Chen Xiangdong asked again:
"How much does that cost?"
"Look, it doesn't matter if you get two hundred catties or three hundred catties first."
Chen Xiangdong stepped on the brakes and turned back abruptly:
"Take the young man?"
Along with him, the three people in the car suddenly jumped forward.
Fu Jingyou frowned and punched Chen Xiangdong on the shoulder:
"Pull over, sit on the edge and say go!"
Chen Xiangdong rubbed his nose and had to pull over and change places with Fu Jingyou.
Tea seed oil is more expensive than rapeseed oil.
Rapeseed oil at the grain and oil station costs 84 cents a pound.
Tea seed oil sold in an oil pressing workshop in the suburbs sells for 1 yuan and 21 pounds.
One yuan is worth two pounds, and two hundred pounds is two hundred and forty yuan.
Three hundred pounds is three hundred and sixty yuan.
Chen Xiangdong questioned:
"How many pieces of soap can one pound of oil make? Is the cost too high?"
Lu Miao said: "One pound is 500g, and a piece of soap is 80g. Even if you don't include saponification media such as alkali and water, you can still make six and a half yuan. How can you make five yuan even if you include consumption and loss? According to what you just saw That Peony brand soap is priced at one yuan and a half, so it’s only seven yuan and a half.”
After this calculation, the cost of one yuan and two seems to be nothing.
But you can’t just use oil to make soap, right?
There are always other things needed.
Chen Xiangdong asked whatever he thought.
Lu Miao continued:
"Other auxiliary materials may seem expensive per unit, but if you buy one or two kilograms, you may not be able to use them up to make thousands of kilograms of soap."
"...Okay."
Chen Xiangdong was speechless for a moment.
But after scratching the back of his head, he said after a while:
"I'll try my best, but there may not be that many over there."
Chen Xiangdong briefly explained the situation.
Tea seed oil is also a type of edible oil, and you also need a ticket to buy it in the market.
The place he was talking about was something he accidentally found out when he was working as a boss.
Tickets are not required there, but the quantity is not guaranteed.
Lu Miao nodded: "Just make as much as you can. The quality of the oil is more important. Too much oil will definitely not work...it will affect the texture and color of the soap."
Chen Xiangdong said "hmm" and said with confidence:
"We have cooperated before and the quality is good, but it is expensive..."
"That's fine."
In fact, there is a reason why it is expensive.
First of all, I don’t want to vote, and secondly, the oil yield rate of tea tree seeds itself is not high... Let’s arrange things here.
After arriving home, Lu Miao washed her hands and went back to her room to set up the small Kang table.
I put the book on the mat and the manuscript paper, and wrote rustlingly at the table for a long time.
She knew a rough idea, but didn't know the detailed ratio data.
Specifically, we can only wait until we get the things back and then hire a professional to come when we go to the soap factory.
However, based on his knowledge of the functions and chemistry of essential oils, base oils, Lu Miao wrote several combination lists.
Like the citric acid mentioned before, adding a small amount during soap making can play a certain role in neutralizing alkalinity.
Lu Miao chooses the best materials of the current era and develops in the direction of "soap".
But her main purpose is not just "soap", but to highlight "skin care".
If you plan to do it, do it well.
If what she got was so different from what was sold in the market, why would she bother and spend so much money?
……
Citric acid was easy to get, and Fu Jingyou got it back the next day.
Chen Xiangdong also quickly brought back the news.
They say they can get two hundred pounds of tea seed oil, but they have to wait a few days.
Then there is the reason for economic liberation. Individuals no longer need to be secretive when doing business.
If you don’t have a ticket to buy gas, the price of gas there will be calculated as one and a half yuan.
Lu Miao made a direct decision, one and a half would be one and a half.
If you have to ask for a ticket, then this matter is really difficult to handle.
Even if their family is not short of tickets, there is no way they can just throw away hundreds of kilograms of gas tickets...
Besides, after waiting for the tea seed oil to be shipped back a few days later, Lu Miao contacted the North Beijing Soap Factory and finalized a time to bring the things there that day.
The assembly line can produce at least two thousand bars of soap a day, and Lu Miao thought she could finish it in a short time.
It turned out that it was totally different when I got there.
After she paid the fee, raw materials such as alkali and various oils and fats were refined, degummed and deacidified on site in the soap factory.
All steps should be carried out at the same time if they can be carried out at the same time.
That's it, I was busy for nearly four days.
Lu Miao thought afterwards:
No wonder people didn’t agree to rent on a daily basis at that time...
During the operation, workers from the soap factory were busy assisting.
After all, they are professionals, so even if they use the materials Lu Miao requested, the finished product will be highly guaranteed.
It's tea seed oil.
The final base liquid of that batch of soap was poured out to print the dry and solidified part, and there were impurities.
There aren't many impurities, but they look noticeable.
The worker at the soap factory asked Lu Miao if he wanted to dissolve it and filter it again.
The soap liquid poured out from the front is fine, but there is something wrong with the bottom part.
Seeing that there weren't many defective soaps, Lu Miao shook her head and didn't bother them.
It doesn't affect use anyway.
It’s not easy to sell it for takeout, but it can be used as employee benefits and distributed to your own people.
Now, let’s talk about this batch of soap.
Two hundred kilograms of tea seed oil was completely unusable after removing the defects and damage. In the end, there were 1,268 bars of soap.
Lu Miao's six bottles of essential oils are divided into three fragrance types, weighing a total of 300g.
It was blended and saponified with 110 kilograms of coconut oil that was brought from the soap factory on site, and the soap defects were removed. In the end, there were more than 640 pieces of soap.
When Lu Miao previously calculated the data, he missed the water and other saponification media required during soap making.
So even if the unusable part is deducted, this data is still a very good result for her. (End of chapter)