How to Tell a Hotel Soap Quality

How to Tell a Hotel Soap Quality

There is no doubt that guests expect and look forward to quality hotel amenities in hotels or resorts. The brands and quality of hotel toiletries you choose can impact your guests'  impression of your hotel. The right selection of high quality hotel soaps will contribute to comfort level of your hotel, and be useful to prevent the waste.

A quality hotel soap has better ingredients. Most common ingredients are sodium palmate, aqua, sodium palm kernelate, glycerin, parfum, disodium EDTA, titanium dioxide and sodium chloride. Sodium palmate is synthesized by reacting palm oil with sodium hydroxide. The process is called saponification. And this chemical acts as surfactant and emulsifying agent, which is a key ingredient in soap.

Saponification occurs when a fatty acid reacts with an alkali. Palm oil is the fatty acid and sodium hydroxide is the alkali. Glycerol and sodium palmate are the end products of this reaction. Soaps are salts of fatty acids whereas fatty acids are saturated monocarboxylic acids that have long carbon chains.

How to tell a soap quality is very important to hoteliers. Total fatty matter, shorten as TFM, is one of the most important characteristics describing the quality of soap and it is always specified in commercial transactions. The fatty acids most commonly present in soap are oleic, steraric and palmitic acids. The higher value TFM, the better quality. The pure and dry sodium oleate has TFM 92.8%, while some factories typically traded with TFM as low as 50% to save cost. Currently, most soap with TFM 75% minimum was referred to as Grade 1 and 65% minimum as Grade 2 and less 60% as Grade 3.

According to China national standard test, references to QB/T 2623-2003 and QB/T 2487-2008, a commercial soap could be tested and divided into two grades. Grade I is soap base, only with sodium fatty acid and addictive agent. Grade II is a compound type, including sodium fatty acid, surfactant, and other functional addictive agent. When dried sodium soap reaches to 83%, this soap is grade I type, and when total effective matter on Request reaches to 53%, it is a grade II type. The higher dried sodium soap value, the better quality.

Hotel soaps from Petop Hotel Supply are all in superior quality. The soap noodles used for making soap tablets are in best quality, which is traded with a specification TFM 81%, moisture 14% max, this will ensure your hotel guests enjoy a mild and gentle formulation and no harsher on the skin. 

Following is the soap test report issued by SGS, showing how good quality the soap is.