At this moment, the door of the conference room was pushed open and a middle-aged aunt in work clothes rushed in.
Director Shi was nervous. "Honey, don't get me wrong. I didn't..."
"Shut up."
Huang Xinping, the factory director's wife, walked past Lao Xi and went straight to Xiao Jiahua. She asked excitedly, "You just said that you have an improved formula for making soap?"
It turned out that the deputy factory director, who was also the chief financial officer, had been eavesdropping next door.
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Accompanied by the factory director and his wife, Xiao Jiahua walked into the production workshop of the Wuxing Soap Factory.
Rather than calling it a production workshop, it is more like a small workshop with no business, no qualifications, and no reputation.
No technology, no planning, no standards.
In an alkaline water pool the size of a pigsty, a muscular worker was carrying an iron bucket and transporting the sticky soap base to a stone trough.
After cooling and solidifying, it is cut into pieces of original soap.
With a dozen workers, they can produce a few hundred pieces a day, which is the best they can do.
The smell of caustic soda was extremely pungent. Xiao Jiahua stood there for several minutes and was about to faint.
Huang Xinping changed her usual aggressive attitude and said sincerely, "Principal, I'm sorry, we also want to make our products better, but unfortunately we don't have a master like you. We wanted to learn the formula from the Shanghai Soap Factory, but they wouldn't let us in. Now we can only produce old-style soap for the miners, and even the county won't accept it."
"I don't dare to call myself a master chef. Whether my recipe is good or not depends on the finished product."
Xiao Jiahua did not hesitate. He took the raw materials from the workshop and returned to the reception room.
She spread out the ingredients and took out the bottles and jars she brought from her bag, talking as she worked.
"The quality of soap depends on the quality of the soap base. Poor-quality soap bases are harmful to the skin and have an unpleasant smell. Good soap bases have a moderate acidity and alkalinity, clean without damaging the skin, and produce rich and delicate foam."
Xiao Jiahua took out the animal oil and vegetable oil he had refined at home, poured them into the soap base, and added some other auxiliary materials.
She explained: "The key to making soap is the ratio of alkali to mixed oils. One more is too soft, and one less is too hard. By controlling the ratio, you can make dry soap or oily soap according to the characteristics of the skin."
After stirring for a while, she poured the soap into the mold and waited for it to cool and take shape.
Huang Xinping smelled it and said, "It smells so good, and the color is beautiful too!" It is white and tender, and a hundred times better than the "yang alkali" made at home.
"Add the spices to 1.3% and grind them several times so that the fragrance can penetrate for a long time. After it is dried, you will be the first to try it, Sister Huang, to see if it works."
"Oh, how could it not be! This is better than the soap factory in the county!"
"Don't worry, there are more than one. Before forming the base, add angelica root, licorice or melon and fruit essences. If conditions permit, add honey and aloe vera, and you can make a beauty soap. Add sulfur and carbolic acid, and you can make a medicated soap, which is anti-inflammatory and antibacterial. It can be used by both the elderly and children."
She spoke so convincingly that the factory director and his wife were left with admiration and yearning in their eyes.
Once their factory goes into mass production, they will naturally have no worries about sales.
Xiao Jiahua demonstrated it again. This time, she used the white sugar and alcohol she had bought in advance to make an inhibitor, poured it into the soap base, and the soap liquid actually slowly became transparent.
The workers around were dumbfounded, as if they were watching a magic trick. "This, can it be used like this?"
"This is a transparent essential oil soap, which can be used, but it wastes sugar. The advantage is that it can be combined with colored soap to make the shape more beautiful, and packaged as a gift to earn added value."
Xiao Jiahua remembered the Hermès soap he used in his previous life. A small piece cost only tens of thousands of yuan.
"But, how can you, a young girl, know so much?"
Director Shi raised a question.
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