Chapter 210: Soap
In ancient chemistry, there are more than 300 different chemical materials, and most of them have been obtained through experiments in order to light up in the past, but now, there is no effort to manifest it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Because the appearance of the fortress occupies 72 hours, that is to say, in this 72 hours, he can't do anything else, even the soda ash of the steamed bun and steamed bun shop is manifested in advance, but fortunately, the number is not large.
Soap, this amount is too large, plus, the manufacture is relatively simple, after all, calcium oxide can be produced by calcining natural limestone, and now, there is a cement workshop, although the output is not high, but the output of quicklime is still there.
For soap, because it is easy to make, its secret recipe is difficult to protect, and Zhao Xin can only find a reliable way to control the saponification reaction.
As one of the three magic weapons of the traverser, the production of soap is relatively simple, in order to ensure profits, there will be a lot of production, and he also looked at the price of bath beans, the price of bath beans he knows, is about 70% of the price of bath beans, almost one or two as high as 300 Wen, compared to the previous soda ash is expensive.
Even if it is a bath bean of 300 Wen and a tael, it is the lowest price of bath beans, a little more expensive, one or two or even more than 10 yuan, for example, the record in Sun Simiao's Qianjin Fang, imagine the substances added in it.
In the Qianjin Yifang, a recipe for bath beans is recorded: cloves, agarwood, green wood incense, peach blossoms, stalactite powder, pearls, jade shavings, Shu water flowers, papaya flowers are three taels each, nai flowers, pear blossoms, red lotus, plum flowers, cherry blossoms, white hollyhock flowers, spiral compound flowers are four taels each, and musk is one baht.
Except for a few flowers, the rest are more expensive materials, such as cloves, pearls, jade shavings, musk, etc., which are part of the valuable items from ancient times to the present, and the bath beans that are combined through them are of course extremely expensive.
Even from the perspective of later generations, the flowers have some effects, floral additives, will make the bath beans with a natural aroma, fragrant after bathing, but at most it is only a use of spices, on it, there is no decontamination ingredients.
In fact, the real decontamination ingredient is alkali, yes, it is alkali, general stains, rinsing with water is easy to wash off, most of the stains are soluble in water, but some stubborn, fat, bloodstains, oil stains, etc., these insoluble water-insoluble stubborn substances, but also the root cause of unclean clothes in ancient times.
However, this part of the substance is soluble in alkaline solution, which is the foundation of alkali decontamination ability, alkaline alkali, of course, the decontamination ability is stronger, but it can even corrode the clothes themselves, decontaminate or destroy clothes, so weak alkaline has become the only choice.
Soap came into being, it is simple to make, saponification reaction with caustic soda and grease, easy to fix and set, easy to use, cheaper, and has become the mainstream of daily chemical industry in later generations.
On the decontamination effect, it is much stronger than the bath bean, ordinary soap, with a natural soap aroma, if you make some fine products, you can also add some spices, Zhao Xin does not know how to maintain health, does not know how to make a variety of health soap, but with a little fragrance, the decontamination ability is strong, and the fragrance is much stronger than the bath bean.
In ancient times, the simple decontamination ability, plant ash and soaphorn, are much stronger than bath beans, in the ordinary people many people use, but the plant ash is too dirty, not easy to clean, the grease is washed off, but to wash off the plant ash, it takes more labor, as for the soap, the yield is too small, only in the rich production area, will be applied on a large scale.
Quicklime is ready-made, you can go to the cement workshop to get it back, the whole process of making soap, for the consumption of quicklime, is not very large, the main thing is to use lime solution and grease saponification reaction, for grease requirements are higher.
At present, Miaojiazhuang has a total of 800 group exercises, about 80 people in the village protection team, plus more than 2,000 people left in Miaojiazhuang, Zhao Xin promoted the high salary, but also made Miaojiazhuang rich, in addition to a part of the savings to improve, improve the living conditions, this is no problem, plus the consumption of steamed buns and steamed bun shops, Miaojiazhuang will consume about 30 fat pigs a day.
50 fat pigs, almost 7,000 pounds, the largest of which is the bun shop, about 6,000 pounds, the remaining 1,000 pounds, is used in the group training and the villagers, the group practice can enjoy an average of 5 taels of meat per day, which is also the fundamental reason for the enthusiasm of the group training.
50 fat pigs, according to each head out of 20 catties of oil, is almost a thousand catties, of course, the buns also need fat, not much, deduction points, about 200 kilograms, almost enough.
In fact, later generations used more vegetable oils, for example, the kind that can't be eaten, cotton oil and others, but now, Zhao Xin has no choice.
With these oils and fats as the basic material, combined with quicklime, it may be produced into more than 300 catties of things, such things, even according to the price of 5 catties of 5 catties, it is more than 1500 catties.
Daily chemicals, that is the same as steamed buns, is a vast to unimaginable market, the same as eating, everyone has to wash clothes, bath, especially in the Northern Song Dynasty, quite exquisite, even flashy bath beans, can be sold for one or two bath beans ten taels of gold, why can't soap, the lowest level of this soap, will make a little more, next, will make a little higher, such as adding a variety of spices.
The use of spices in China has always been relatively low-level, and the use of Qianjin Yifang is also the direct use of petals and flowers, which is too wasteful, and most of the spices are difficult to dissolve in water, which is the fundamental reason why it is difficult to extract, and most of them are used directly in ancient China.
Direct use, the effect is not good, and the spice is difficult to attach to the body, for example, the rose bath, petal bath and the like in later generations, the visual effect is stronger than the use effect.
What is really popular is actually perfume, perfume to put it bluntly, it is the extraction of certain spices, and then let it dissolve in alcohol, which constitutes a perfume.
Now, the manufacture of perfume is a little early, the formula is not known, but it is also useful for wine or other solutions, extracted some natural flowers in the fragrance, and then added to the saponification reaction, the characteristics of the saponification reaction determine his good addition, from the liquid solidification into solid, the distribution is also uniform, this is the high-grade soap.
For the time being, Zhao Xin can't do a lot, just choose the most common, such as commonly used ordinary spices, floral fragrances, etc., when the time comes, get out of that, just use that, as long as this is done, it is a high-end handicraft, not only with more exquisite abrasives, so that it presents a different shape, soap base in the absence of complete solidification, simply make a variety of patterns, just find someone to carve out the wooden abrasive, and then, you can produce a large number of them.
Packaging is also very important, you can make small boxes from more precious wood, and carve some more beautiful graphics or handwriting.
Zhao Xin believes that the unique shape, vivid soap, exudes a completely different, intoxicating aroma, and has a certain practicality, the effect of such a soap must be a complete bath bean.
Zhao Xin used bath beans, saying that after leaving the capital, he had not seen the imperial bath beans in the palace, but in Wang Song's hands, there were thousands of funds at that time, and this money, used on a small number of people, was quite terrible, but it was a daily bath bean, I heard that it was 3 times a tael, which was more valuable.
But what Zhao Xin saw was black, greasy, and even an inexplicable smell emanating from it, which made people disgusting.
Zhao Xin during this time, either he didn't take a bath, if he took a bath, he didn't need this thing at all, God knows that this thing is clean with the one on his body, at most he got some soap, soaked in water and washed it, that is, through ancient chemistry, after the experiment, he got the sample, and only then did he completely solve the personal physiological problem.
It's not better than not knowing, being scared, and well-informed traversers can clearly see the benefits, not to mention the ancients who have no knowledge and have never seen soap at all, they will only judge according to their own understanding, especially the delicate mold.
Zhao Xin will be troublesome, some patterns and three-dimensional sense will be quite strong, so that people will feel that it is a supreme handicraft, not a simple living utensil.
High-end must have a high-end reason, so that people can't find any problems from beginning to end, but it is his use role, which can basically be placed in a relatively minor place.
But in fact, in terms of price, soap has never been a high-end product, the raw materials are just quicklime, water, oil, and the oil has a little price, and the rest are relatively cheap in the Northern Song Dynasty.
In general, we can know by comparing the soaps and soaps of later generations that one or two pieces of soap and one piece of soap are about the same, at most, in terms of size, the soap is slightly larger, but in general, on a horizontal line.
The high-end route is always the most profitable and the most labor-saving, at this moment, Miaojiazhuang's manpower has a certain shortage, Zhao Xin, it is impossible to extract endlessly, soap, just a way for him to increase his income in addition to being nervous, can not be compared with steamed buns, Zhao Xin is just doing it casually.