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What are fillers and what role these fillers play in soap?

The substances added to soaps to make it useful for a specific purpose are termed as fillers. Like addition of deodorants to some soaps.


Soaps are prepared by the process of saponification. It is the process that involves the conversion of fat or oil into soap and alcohol by action of heat in the presence of aqueous alkali.


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