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Olio di bacche di alloro

Nome INCI: Laurus Nobilis Fruit Oil. Anche: Olio di alloro, Olio laurino.

Calcola una saponetta 100 % olio di bacche di alloro

Valori pubblicati

Indice di saponificazione198–199 mg KOH/g
Usato dal calcolatore198,5 mg KOH/g (punto medio)
SAP per NaOH0,1415 g/g
Numero di iodio68–80 g I₂/100 g
INS (SAP − numero di iodio)125
Punto di fusione36 °C
Sostanze insaponificabili10 %

Una saponetta 100 % olio di bacche di alloro

Durezza 45 29–54
Potere detergente 24 sopra 12–22
Condizionamento 51 44–69
Schiuma a bolle 24 14–46
Schiuma cremosa 21 16–48

Qualità convenzionali sommate a partire dai gruppi di acidi grassi; una saponetta di un solo olio è un punto di riferimento, non una ricetta.

Questa scheda è contestata. The two published analyses of this oil's fatty acids disagree by about ten points on lauric acid — 18 % in Madeira fruit against 27.7 % in Tunisian — and by five on palmitic. That is a real difference between growing regions and extraction methods rather than a transcription error in either paper, and the band here spans both rather than picking one. Anything computed from the profile, which means all five soap qualities, should be read as a range and not a figure. The saponification value is separately weaker: it comes from a 1980 therapeutic patent quoting bulk characteristics, not from a compositional standard, because no standard covers this oil. Ask your supplier for a certificate of analysis if the exact lye matters to you.

Profilo degli acidi grassi

Acido grassoIntervallo pubblicato, %Usato
Acido laurico C12:0 · saturi 18–27,7 22,9
Acido miristico C14:0 · saturi 1 1,0
Acido palmitico C16:0 · saturi 17,1–22,5 19,8
Acido palmitoleico C16:1 0,3 0,3
Acido stearico C18:0 · saturi 1,5 1,5
Acido oleico C18:1 27,2–30 28,6
Acido linoleico C18:2 20–21,5 20,8
Acido α-linolenico C18:3 n-3 1,2 1,2

Da dove vengono questi numeri

Le note con fonte qui sotto, e i titoli dei documenti che citano, restano nella lingua originale. Una citazione tradotta non si può rintracciare, e un riassunto tecnico tradotto non è più il riassunto che è stato verificato sul documento.

MDPI (Molecules) — Marzouki H., Piras A., Marongiu B., Rosa A., Dessì M.A., "Extraction and Separation of Volatile and Fixed Oils from Berries of Laurus nobilis L. by Supercritical CO2", Molecules 13(8):1702–1711, Table 2 · documento datato 2008 · consultato il 2026-09-22

Open access under CC BY 3.0. Fixed-oil yield 15.0 % by weight at 250 bar and 40 C. Table 2 gives the fatty-acid composition of the fixed oil as percentages: C12:0 27.7, C14:0 1.0, C16:0 17.1, C16:1 n-7 0.3, C18:0 1.5, C18:1 n-9 27.2, C18:2 n-6 21.5, C18:3 n-3 1.2, others 2.5 (C10:0, C20:0, C20:1). The paper reports no saponification or iodine value.

American Oil Chemists' Society (Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society) — Castilho P.C., Costa M.C., Rodrigues A., Partidário A., "Characterization of laurel fruit oil from Madeira Island, Portugal", JAOCS 82(12):863–868, DOI 10.1007/s11746-005-1156-4 · documento datato 2005 · consultato il 2026-09-22

Paywalled at the publisher; the bibliographic record and abstract were read through Crossref, and the figures used here are the ones the abstract itself states: oleic 30 % and linoleic 20 % as the main unsaturated acids, lauric 18 % and palmitic up to 22.5 % as the main saturated ones, in the neutral lipid fraction; volatiles about 10 % of the oil, with trans-ocimene and germacrene D predominating; sterol content on the order of olive oil's, β-sitosterol 84 % of it; dehydrocostuslactone and costunolide together about 5 %. The full tables were not read, so no acid is taken from this paper that the abstract does not name.

United States Patent and Trademark Office — US 4,235,889 (Walter Evers), "Therapeutic agent for the external treatment of psoriasis, tinea and eczemas", filed 1979-04-25, issued 1980-11-25 · documento datato 1980-11-25 · consultato il 2026-09-22

The source of the saponification value (198–199) and iodine value (68–80), which it prints as characteristics of laurel oil from Laurus nobilis, along with a density of approximately 0.88, a melting point of approximately 36 C and a refractive index nD25 of 1.4783. A patent is a dated, published, citable document but it is not a compositional standard, and it gives no method for either determination — hence the disputed note. The patent's separate figure of about 40 C is for laurel tallow, a different preparation, and is not used here.

This is the pressed fruit oil of the bay laurel, the fat that makes Aleppo and Nablus soap. It is not bay laurel ESSENTIAL oil (a steam distillate of the leaves, which saponifies nothing) and not West Indian bay, Pimenta racemosa, which is a different plant sold under the same English word. Fatty acids are a band across the only two published analyses of the fruit's fixed oil we could read in full. Where both report an acid the band spans them; where only Marzouki et al. reports one it is given as a single typical value rather than invented into a range. Marzouki et al. (2008, Table 2, supercritical CO2 at 250 bar / 40 C, Tunisian berries): C12:0 27.7, C14:0 1.0, C16:0 17.1, C16:1 0.3, C18:0 1.5, C18:1 27.2, C18:2 21.5, C18:3 1.2, plus 2.5 % grouped as C10:0 + C20:0 + C20:1, which is left unsplit here because the paper does not split it. Castilho et al. (2005, Madeira, neutral lipid fraction): oleic 30, linoleic 20, lauric 18, palmitic up to 22.5. Saponification and iodine values are from US 4,235,889, which prints them as bulk characteristics of laurel oil; no compositional standard covers this oil. They sit 4.8 % below what the fatty-acid profile alone implies, which is consistent with the unsaponifiable fraction rather than in conflict with it: Castilho et al. measured roughly 10 % volatiles in the Madeira oil, with sterols on the order of olive oil's and two sesquiterpene lactones at about 5 % of the whole. Ten per cent of a fat that is not a triglyceride is ten per cent that consumes no lye, and a measured saponification value is the honest figure to calculate from. The practical consequence for a soaper: the lye figure here is the measured one and can be used as it stands, but roughly a tenth of what you weigh out will not saponify and will behave as superfat on top of whatever discount you set. Traditional Aleppo recipes put laurel berry oil at 2-40 % of the fat, added to an olive-oil soap after the boil.

Questa scheda fa parte della database aperto degli ingredienti (ODbL). Hai trovato un errore o una fonte primaria migliore? Il dataset è su GitHub; le correzioni con il link a un documento sono benvenute.