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Animal Fat and lye for hard soaps and potash for soft soaps are the base ingredients of soap. Different types and brands of soaps each add their own combination of other ingredients for cosmetic properties, odor, and color. See the link below for the 'Chemistry of Soap'.

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soap is made of potassium ion or sulphat ion .contain emulsifying agentsand high in fatty acids,e.g.,sodium palmitate(C15H31COONa),sodium stearate(C17H35COONa)etc . soap consists of two partes the hydrocarbon part(C15H31-,C17H35-etc)and poler gr.(COO-veNa+ve) ,for more info go to pankajkirariya@yahho.com

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Quote from the Related Link: "A carbonate rock is one whose main rock-forming component is CO3 (carbon with oxygen). The rock that is chalk is a limestone, and is calcium carbonate, CaCO3."

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zinc is one of them i don't know any more

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