Hygienic travel soap from dabai fruits oil

Dabai fruit (Canarium odontophyllum) is an exotic fruit founded in Sarawak and have been locally known by its richness in nutritional values. Dabai fruits is prominent among locals due to its high level of antioxidants which contributes to the development of health and beauty. In this research, pure oil of Dabai was successfully extracted from its fruit through Soxhlet extraction process. The pure Dabai oil was then used in saponification process in the process of making travel soap. Dabai oil was further analysed using ATR-FTIR for identification of flavonoid compound. Dabai travel soap is invented for the purpose of hygiene and avoid continuous reinfection between users. The Dabai soap is fabricated like small ball size, dissolve during handwashing and leave no residue. In result, single use soap will prevent spreading of diseases. This also to create portable and user-friendly soap for people to enhance frequent handwashing culture. The usage of Dabai oil in inventing Dabai travel soap is also to replace palm oil in saponification process. The travel small ball soap is invented to improve the coverage area during handwashing activity as compared to paper thin soap which has been invented previously. Travel small ball soap is easier to use since it can be roll in between fingers to make sure hand-washing process is more effective to kill all microorganisms on the hands surface area.