OPTIMIZATION OF SUCROSE CONCENTRATION ON TRANSPARENCY AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF TRANSPARENT SOLID SOAP 96% ETHANOL EXTRACT OF PANDAN WANGI LEAVES (PANDANUS AMARYLLIFOLIUS ROXB)

Abstract

Nowadays, many people are negligent in maintaining skin cleanliness, even though cleanliness or skin care is important. One way to keep your skin clean is to bathe regularly using soap. Transparent soap is the latest innovation to attract public interest in using soap. The ingredient that can affect the transparency of soap is sucrose, sucrose can emulsify the oil used so that it affects the free fatty acids contained in transparent solid soap so that sucrose in soap making functions as a transparent agent. The ability of soap as a cleaner is not enough to make it attractive if it does not have more specific benefits, therefore we need ingredients that can provide dual benefits apart from being a cleaner and also being an antibacterial. One ingredient that has antibacterial properties is fragrant pandan leaf extract which is obtained from the fragrant pandan plant. This research was carried out with the aim of determining the optimization of sucrose concentration and the effect of variations in the addition of sucroseon the quality of the physical properties of transparent solid soap with 96% ethanol extract of fragrant pandan leaves(Pandanus amaryllifolius Roxb). The method used is experimental research.The results of the research show that in organoleptic tests increasing the concentration of sucrose can affect the color. The more sucrose, the more transparent the soap produced. Ph measurements using universal pH resulted in a stable pH at pH 10. The surfactant content in the high foam test was able to remove foam well. The conclusion is that variations in sucrose concentration in making transparent solid soap from 96% ethanol extract of fragrant pandan leaves (Pandanus amaryllifolius Roxb) affect the physical properties of soap because the more sucrose, the more transparent the soap produced.