Chapter 214: Pine Soap
Looking at the bottles of perfume, it is not crystal clear, because there are no glass bottles of various colors, in Zhao Xin's card system, there are glass, there are glass bottles, in the Northern Song Dynasty, it is also a treasure that is difficult to see, but this thing is not suitable for perfume. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The glaze of the Northern Song Dynasty, because there are no imported products from Europe, most of them are not crystal clear, but are known for their various colors and luster, and they are used to hold perfumes, which are somewhat noisy.
All kinds of dried flowers and plum blossoms have been extracted, but I didn't expect that the soap has not yet been made, and the perfume was brought out first, which was an unexpected surprise.
In fact, perfume is also the easiest to do, as long as there is a high purity, the purity is above 90, you can dissolve and make perfume, distillation and alcohol extraction, are very simple methods. Because flame is the first tool of human beings to change the world.
That's right, in ancient history, the vast majority of chemical products, high-temperature calcination, are common means, from the beginning of human beings to use fire, the temperature has gradually increased, from the Neolithic Age 8000 years ago, pottery began to produce, the original pottery just held some things, to 730 can be filled with water, and then to 1230 degrees, the surface of porcelain, porcelain began to produce.
Different backgrounds, different science and technology trees, and different emphases, but high temperature is indeed the most common and the most easily available chemical method, relatively speaking, molecules, ions, and even catalysts are more profound, that is, in modern times, with the identification of the periodic table and the deepening of chemistry, it has gradually been produced and established.
On the basis of calcination, Zhao Xin used the method of distillation and extraction to make more solvents, dissolve transpiration, and extract, which was very simple to make the perfume born.
On the one hand, the number is too small, these perfumes are added to the soap, and the soap produced is not much, and the addition effect is not very good, so it is better to stay in the form of perfume for the time being.
After several purifications, coupled with the help of ancient chemistry, the essence was finally concentrated, and then mixed into anhydrous alcohol according to a certain proportion, about 5% concentration of perfume, a total of 1200 ml.
Zhao Xin can continue to improve, reaching a stronger perfume with a concentration of 15-20%, but there is no need for this, according to Zhao Xin's sense of smell, he already feels that this perfume is quite strong.
Chinese, not Europeans, like to use strong perfume, suppress the taste of the body, fragrant and elegant, is the aesthetic view of the Chinese, too strong perfume, only in later generations, after the collision of the East and the West, the values of the West overwhelm the East, will be recognized by the public.
The perfume with a concentration of 5%, after spraying, can last for two or three hours, the kind of faint fragrance, with a floral fragrance, and with a touch of elegance, will make people linger.
This is a high-end product, Zhao Xin does not have a glass bottle, can only choose a more expensive mutton fat vial, this is a kind of white porcelain, crystal clear, almost translucent, not to mention as thin as cicada wings, that is too expensive, but also small and cute.
There is no nozzle, there is no way to save the use, you can only use a special stick, and rub it after dripping, which can be regarded as usable.
It is estimated that a bottle of 50 ml, a total of almost 24 bottles, this is already the total output of the recent production, I want to no more, the dried flowers are not very suitable, the price is too expensive, the production is troublesome, there are some gains outweigh the losses, the flowers are not easy to get, in the winter, the traces of thousands of people are gone, and the plum blossoms can be found so much, it is already good.
Perhaps expand the scope of the search and expand the scope to Baozhou, and even other military states on the border, if you can find flowers that bloom in winter, but the cost of manpower and material resources is huge, it is better to buy them through the traders who walk the streets and alleys, and the price can be slightly higher, and the economic benefits can be used to attract them.
The flowers that can be seen everywhere, of course, are not as good as carefully selected, among which the varieties of more expensive dried flowers have a good effect, and the cost is only a fraction of that of dried flowers.
Looking at the bottles lined up, filled with specially cut corks, placed together, a small wooden box is packed, if you take it out to sell, it will definitely cause a sensation, sell three or five times the price of raw materials, or even 10 times the price, it should not be a problem, but the quantity is still too small, hey, or in the spring, the flowers are in full bloom, these raw materials are everything.
Because dried flowers and flowers are made into perfumes, Zhao Xin simply does not add these to the soap, rouge soap, sulfur soap, and several other natural flavors, should be enough to cope with the current market, the market needs to open step by step, can not eat a fat man.
It is almost the same process as yesterday's refining soap, the price of soap itself is slightly higher than that of soap, and in later generations, ordinary soap is not much higher than soap, that is, some brands, or precious, such as the so-called ginseng essential oil, or other essential oils, which have been blamed on the ranks of cosmetics.
When adding raw materials, there are slight differences, the amount of pine resin is the largest, and it is also the easiest to buy, followed by rouge, and then sulfur, these three are made first, and the first one is rosin soap.
Before the crossing, what I helped my sister do was rosin soap, and Zhao Xin didn't even see the finished product, so he crossed it, but fortunately, the basic process was there.
Yesterday, it was a practice, and it was basically determined that the production was successful, with yesterday's experience, today's manufacturing process, a little faster, cooperated with each other, and completed the production of the first rosin.
150 kilograms of grease, almost 30 kilograms of caustic soda, and almost 3 kilograms of rosin, a total of about 200 kilograms, about 120 kilograms of soap,
Of course, this is purely theoretical, in fact, because of magazines and other reasons, the real number is a little bit more.
The rest are some impurities and glycerin, because the purification of glycerin is too complicated, and the control of the entire heat can only be made by Zhao Xin alone.
Zhao Xin knows very well the terrible nature of chemical pollution, and he doesn't want this side of the clear water and blue sky to become a sewage ditch, soap residues, and the strong alkali in it can't even be disposed of when buried deeply, and when it enters the water, it can't be decomposed, and it completely pollutes the water source, which Zhao Xin can't see, so he simply makes another incinerator, glycerin and most of the solids can be incinerated, and the rest is buried after harmless treatment.
As long as the strong alkali is removed, some other substances have little impact on the ecology.
This is a small batch production, if it is a large-scale production, this fertilizer treatment, as well as glycerin recycling, must be put on the agenda, because the unique product is very profitable, and there are no other competitors, a little on cleaning, a little effort, no problem.
Add pine resin, this is a very simple process, plus later generations have done it, with the help of Sun Ji and others, a few hours later, when everything is made, filtered and analyzed, the soap base is slightly different from the previous one.
Due to the addition of rosin, it shows a single brownish-yellow, which is the color of rosin itself, because there are fewer impurities, which is well reflected in the soap.
On the appearance, because the ancient chemistry has been purified and processed, the appearance is very good, the fragrance, the pine fragrance is also relatively common, and most of the ink fragrance is the pine fragrance.
"It smells so good!" Xue Yu almost blurted out and said, "It seems that there is a smell of ink." ”
"I'll take a look!" Sun Ji was also very pleasantly surprised to pick up a wooden box, because of Zhao Xin's warning, he didn't pick up the soap directly, picked it up with the wooden box, put it next to his nose, and before he got close, he felt a simple fragrance of ink.
The Northern Song Dynasty advocated scholars, and therefore, the status of scholars was relatively high, ink incense and bamboo incense have always been more elegant, the fragrance of literati and scholars, such a taste, most people will like it.
More than 100 catties of rosin soap, cut down, there will probably be hundreds of pieces, this is a relatively high-end point, it is impossible to use the original ordinary, Fangfang's real small wooden box, add some changes.
The mold is relatively exquisite, at least it took a dozen craftsmen, two or three days of work, not the way before, it was a wooden box, made some decorations, and some, even carved a poem, or a simple small painting.
Most of these poems and paintings have molds, and when there were carpenters making some more high-end calligraphy and painting utensils before, the ones left behind were just used for this.
I have to say that this is a fine work, even if it is a lot of wasted effort, in the end, it is only more than 100, and the rest is still a wooden box, but it is not the kind of boxy, some edges and corners, or the appearance is slightly different, which also increases the diversity of soap, and soap has a huge difference, forming two grades.
These soaps will form different types, and Zhao Xin will also choose different packaging for them in the future, different from the lowest level of soap, which can be used as long as it is square, and the soap is destined to compete with high-end bath beans, which must be good in appearance, and the packaging is not ambiguous, and it must be high-end.
The reason is that Zhao Xin has absolute confidence in making rosin soap, and at the same time, a soap casually packaged in coarse paper is not a grade at all, although the bath beans will become black and greasy after use, but the initial packaging is very high-grade, and the neat and tidy bath beans with a light aroma are one of its selling points.
If soap wants to compete with it, this is the first thing to consider.