Training on Making Hand Washing Soap from Waste Cooking Oil Using Betel Leaf as Essence for PKK Mothers in Kalumata and Ubo-Ubo Villages

Abstract

Cooking oil is one of the basic human needs as a means of processing food ingredients. Cooking oil as a frying medium is very important and the need is increasing. Cooking oil is included in one of the foodstuffs that are needed by the community in order to fulfill their daily needs. Many housewives use cooking oil over and over again. They purposely use the used cooking oil with reasons to save money and the assumption that if you fry something with used cooking oil, the resulting taste is more delicious. In the process of repeated use will leave high saturated fat, high saturated fatty acids can cause the formation of cholesterol. Given the many adverse effects on health due to used cooking oil, a new breakthrough is needed. Efforts to process used cooking oil in the context of saving, but not endangering health and easy to do, are needed. In everyday life, soap has become a basic need for most people, both for bathing, washing clothes, washing utensils, and so on. This community service activity aims to provide knowledge and skills for mothers in making soap. The methods used in this community service are pre test, lecture, question and answer, practicum (demonstration) and post test. The results of this community service resulted in a leaflet, a module, soap and an increase in community knowledge in the Jambula and Ubo-Ubo villages in making hand washing soap from used cooking oil by using betel leaf as an essence.