for helping us guide each other in making our research papers especially Paolo

Barrameda for accompanying us in search for rare ingredients of our soap and letting us obtain

malunggay leaves from their front yard’s malunggay tree. We would also like to thank our

families because they have provided our necessities to buy our ingredients, to search for

references, and to create our research paper for our investigatory project. We are thankful to one

of our team mate’s father, James Francis Alfajora, who has let us use his kitchen and help

document the procedures of our ampalaya-malunggay soap. We would like to thank our beloved

school, Glendale School, for giving us the knowledge of Chemistry to know the safety

precautions of our experiment specifically our Science Teacher, Sir Gemini Malubay. He has

also helped us find where our rare ingredient can be bought. We owe it to T. Sherlenne Uy for

giving us the idea of ampalaya-malunggay soap, guiding us on creating our investigatory project,

motivating us that our product can be possible and of course, inspiring us to become successful

people since the day we met her. We would like to thank each other for being a productive and

cooperative teammate. Lastly, we would like to thank God for giving us blessings and

opportunities to be where we are right now.

ABSTRACT

It has been observed that people nowadays are very much concern with the appearance and

color of their skin, so our group decided to invent a new kind of soap. We can offer it to the

people to help make their skin whiter, softer and fairer at an affordable price.

We used one whole ampalaya, half pound of malunggay leaves, lye, coconut oil and

lavender fragrance. We cut the ampalaya into pieces and mixed with a little amount of water and
blended it. Then we chopped and minced half pound of malunggay leaves. We put the ampalaya

and malunggay leaves into separate bowls. We mixed a little amount of water into the lye and

left it to chill. We put the coconut oil in a pot and heated it and after heating we put it in another

container and slowly add the lye with it and mixed them vigorously for about an hour and a half

and put the blended ampalaya and minced malunggay into the mixture and continuously stirring

the mixture until it became more liquid.

After mixing all the ingredients, we add lavender fragrance oil into the mixture then put

in into a soap mold and covered it with cloth to make it hard. After a few days the soap hardened

and we took it from the mold and set it in a dry place to cure for about two months. After two

months, the soap is now ready to be used