Manufactured soap

[Mike Dewhirst]

Previously, soap was just another chemical. The new (April 2024) Rules ease the way for two classes of saponification (soap) manufacture

1. Up to 10kg per year of a Listed fat or oil saponified with aqueous sodium or potassium hydroxide - Excluded "category", meaning of no interest to AICIS at all

2. Up to 100kg per year of any fat or oil saponified with aqueous sodium or potassium hydroxide - Exempted category, meaning AICIS is just as interested as with any other Exempted category chemical.

Other recipes or greater volumes need detailed categorisation as usual.

This ticket calls for a "Saponification of fat or oil with sodium or potassium hydroxide" selection plus other thingsnecessary for the software to identify the category without requiring all the chemical properties and hazards otherwise demanded.

Those other things include:

• identification of the ingredient fats/oils
• confirmation that saponification is done with sodium or potassium hydroxide
• checking that the chemical (soap) is Locally manufactured only
• up to 10kg of listed fat/oil being Excluded
• up to 100kg of any fat or oil being Exempted
• Post Introduction Report is not required
• Records need to be kept of the names of the fat or oil