On the development trend of soap products

Author： Date：2013-7-10 10:24:27

The soap is a detergent, has been for thousands of years of human use of the oldest. Detergent industry in China has just started, in fact, the only soap a product, in 1949 the annual output of about 30,000 tons. After the founding of the soap industry rapid development, reached 100,000 tons in 1952 to 596,000 tons in 1978, 1988, the highest annual output of 1.198 million tons [1]. The advent of synthetic detergent products in China in 1958, rapid growth has been excellent in hard water resistance, and synergy with inorganic salts compatibility, the synthetic detergent industry. Since the reform and opening up, with the rapid development of China's national economy and people's living standard is increasing in urban and rural residents rapidly growing popularity of using the washing machine, synthetic detergent, dissolve quickly and other advantages in the washing machine to replace the soap part of the market for soap production year by year decline. But after 2000, the annual production of soap products has been stable at 70 to 75 tons.　　At present, the the the domestic soap class product structure [4]-per-use function can be broadly divided into three categories products: toiletries categories of products, the fabric washing class products, features products. Toiletries products including soap, crystal soap, its market share of about 23.75%; fabric cleaning products (laundry soap), transparent soap, whitening soap, soap, and its market share of 74.32% (including transparent Laundry accounting for 77.51% of soap, ordinary soap is about 10.68%, about 9.5% of compound soap, and other laundry soap about 2.31%); features products include sulfur soap, medicated soap, baby soap, its market share of about 1.93%. The soap market in China laundry soap occupy 3/4, laundry soap, transparent soap accounted for more than 3/4. Visible, the overall structure of the domestic fertilizer (incense) soap market transparent soap with low value-added products and high-end products, soap. On the basis of the analysis of the soap products, present situation and development and look forward to the prospects for the development of green cleaning products.
Fertilizer (incense) soap and development trend analysis
Fertilizer (incense) soap products comply with the requirements of the development of green　　
Resource depletion, world is facing a serious threat to ecological deterioration of the environment, support the development of environment-friendly industries, to encourage low-carbon products, to promote low-carbon consumption and to find a sustainable development strategy has become a global consensus. Fertilizer (incense) soap as green products in the general-purpose detergent, has unique advantages:
　　1) fertilizer (incense) the main raw material of soap from natural plant and animal fats and recycled. As the ultimate source of animal fat such as tallow, also attributed to forage and feed of plant resources, from the perspective of green chemistry [6], a plant-based biomass resources will be the ideal choice for the future of mankind. Therefore, tallow, coconut oil and palm oil and other vegetable raw materials used by the fertilizer (incense) soap, its harmony of the natural environment-friendliness is a synthetic detergent, synthetic liquid detergent can not be compared.
　　2) fat (incense) soap packaging consumption of polyethylene, polypropylene and other plastic packaging materials average less than the detergent more than 40%, 85% less than the liquid detergent, indicating that the soap in the fertilizer (incense) petrochemical resourcesconsumption is much better than synthetic detergents, and consumption of the three values shown in Figure 2.
　　3) fat (incense) the active ingredient of the soap products, high levels of product components filling ingredients at least, smaller products, tons of products take up less storage space than currently on the market mainstream detergent, liquid detergent, and thus consume moreless efficient transport resources.
　　4) fat (incense) emissions in the soap after use fat sodium has good biodegradability is an important component in the process of bacterial life activities [7], no adverse effects on the natural environment is expected. Commonly used anionic surfactant to the EC directive Determination of biodegradation of the ease of ordering [8] as follows: straight-chain fatty acid soaps> straight chain fatty alcohol sulfuric acid ester straight chain fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether sulfate (AES )> straight-chain alkyl or alkenyl sulfonate (AS, SAS, AOS) linear alkyl benzene sulfonate (LAS)> branched-chain fatty alcohol sulfate> branched-chain fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether sulfate branched-chain alkyl benzene sulfonate.
5) the use of fertilizer (incense) soap than ordinary synthetic detergent, liquid detergent can reduce the number of rinsing, at least the province more than 30 percent of the water. Ordinary detergent, if a family weekly concentrated washed 2 times clothing, every time water consumption of 150 liters, use the soap in annual savings of 4680 liters of water resources. Based on projections, the country a year, saving 18 million tons of water consumption, this relative lack of water resources in China has important practical significance. Therefore, the entire life cycle of the fertilizer (incense) soap is the most green products in all major cleaning products, in line with the requirements of sustainable development, which is able to get a solid foundation for long-term development.
Soap appearance shape the direction of diversification
　　With the popularity of the urban and rural mechanization of clothes washing, mainly by hand-scrub soap products for the household washing machine is not convenient, lead to consumer reluctance to use the variety of fertilizer (incense) soap advantage to be suppressed. Therefore, under the pressure of market competition, the future of soap products in the morphology change will make a difference, to adapt to consumer habits, to meet the market demand. Soap for the raw materials to produce the powder, liquid products will continue to emerge, such as the market liquid soap, natural soap powder, the consumer choices of soap products will be more broad. Soap products has been able to even under strong competition in the synthetic detergent have a place, of course, with its water-saving energy efficiency, environmental protection, natural, renewable advantages related to, but more importantly, the production technology is in progress, such as the NICE guide translucent soap instead of the traditional soap products revolution. Innovation and progress of domestic soap products in the appearance and performance products that meet market demand results. Soap products for further development, and improve its quality and performance will be the eternal subject.
　　Is a detergent components of.Washing active ingredient is a class called surfactant material, its role is diminished with stains clothes adhesion, in the washing water and rubbing his hands or a washing machine by mechanical force, so that the stains from clothes, so as to achieve the purpose of cleaning clothes.　
Conclusion based on the homogenization of products competition pressure, make some once only in high-end products in the application of the function or concept will gradually in the ordinary product application and popularization, seek product differentiation will be fat (fragrance) soap products survive the inevitable choice.Technical innovation of products, functional subdivision makes characteristic, differentiated products to gain further development, fertilizer (fragrance) soap quality, performance, design and product appearance get progressively promotion, powder, liquid chemical products will gain greater development space.As the raw material for the production of technical progress, the soap product formula to choose a more broad, in market demand, the soap product formula compound is its development direction.And the use of petrochemical raw materials and other non-renewable resources, detergent, soap category of product whole life cycle with green, low-carbon, environmentally friendly and other unique excellent characteristics, in line with the development trend of consumption concept, in line with the national industrial policy direction.In today's low carbon economy sustainable development has become increasingly popular, more and more pressing in the context of soap products, have long-term development foundation.Based on this analysis, soap products will be as environmentally friendly products advantage, participate in washing product market competition in the process to show xiongzi.Take this opportunity, soap making business will usher in the survival and development of the new opportunity.In referenc
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