Resin soap

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Resin soap" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Resin soap is a mix of salts (usually sodium) of resin acids (usually mainly abietic acid). It is a yellow gelatinous pasty soap with use in bleaching and cleaning and as a compound of some varnishes. It also finds use in rubber industry.

Resin soap is made by reacting resin acids in wood with

Acidification of the resin soap produces tall oil.

Pine soap is refined from resin soap via tall oil by acidification, refining and resaponification. ^[1]

References