Olive oil and vegetable oil were the two oils used and lard fat and shortening fat were the two fats used. These fats and oils were used to make soap through a process called When produced these soaps have hydrophobic and hydrophilic ends which allow them to be better cleaning agents and react with water. Before the soaps and detergents were synthesized the oils and fats were placed into different solvents to test their solubility. It was found that none of the starting materials were soluble in water since the fats and oils are nonpolar and water is polar. They were all soluble in NaOH except olive oil and they were all soluble in hexane as indicated in table