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Exploring Soaps: Market Research & Design

Understand soap chemistry, market research importance, survey sampling, and qualitative experiments. Challenge to create soap from natural products. Reflect on cleaning product necessity. Activity includes observations and discussions on soap industry.

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Exploring Soaps: Market Research & Design

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  1. Objectives: • Recognize that soaps are chemicals that vary in their characteristics • Consider the importance of market research in product design • Examine sampling issues in administering a survey • Compare the information provided by qualitative experiment

  2. Drill: • What do you think makes a good soap?

  3. Homework: • Cookin’ Chem Chapter Challenge due Monday 1/10/11

  4. Chapter Challenge • Create a procedure to make a soap from natural products that can be sold at local stores.

  5. Activity 1 What Makes a Good Soap?

  6. What do you see? • Look at the picture on page 743 and describe what you see. Be prepared to discuss what you see with the class.

  7. What do you think? Soap is a multi-billion industry; some of the biggest corporations in the U.S. are soap companies. • How many different cleaning products does your family have at home? • Why are there so many? • Are they all needed?

  8. Investigate • Pages 743 – 745

  9. Chem Talk • Cleaning agents • Vary greatly in what they intend to clean • Depends on what it cleans • Depends on what kind of dirt it cleans • Depends on how it cleans the dirt

  10. Chem talk • Soap Scum • Formed from soap and hard water • Hard water • Water that is rich in magnesium and calcium salts • Interferes with soaps effectiveness

  11. Chem Talk • Other Cleaners • Detergents • Chemicals with sodium or potassium ions that reduce soap scum • Abrasive cleaners • Soap mixed with grit • Waterless hand cleaners • Soap mixed with ethanol

  12. Chem Talk • Testing a soap for effectiveness • Quantitative tests • Tests with numerical data • Qualitative tests • Tests with non-numerical data

  13. What do You Think Now? At the beginning of the activity you were asked: • How many different cleaning products does your family have at home? • Why are there so many? • Are they all needed? • Revisit your answers. How has this activity changed the way you view cleaning products in your home?

  14. Reflecting on the Activity and the Challenge Page 749

  15. Inquiring Further • Market Research Methods

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