Transformasi Limbah Minyak Jelantah Menjadi Produk Sabun-Batang di Dukung Digital-Branding Sebagai Upaya Kemandirian Ekonomi

Abstract

Every household produces used cooking oil because the use of cooking oil is one of the primary needs of society.
Waste cooking oil if not managed properly will make the environment dirty and can contaminate water and soil.
To overcome this problem, innovation is needed in the management of used cooking oil by involving the
community so that the waste can be utilized to become recyclable products that can be reused in everyday life and
even become products of economic value that are environmentally friendly. One of the potential wastes of cooking
oil is the high content of fatty acids that can be used to make soap. Soap products can be obtained from the
hydrolysis reaction of fatty acids with bases (alkali). Therefore, this Community Service (PkM) activity was
carried out to increase the added value of used cooking oil by processing it into bar soap. This PkM activity
includes four stages, namely observation, information transformation, digital literacy and activity evaluation. The
target of this service program is housewives (IRT) in Srimukti Village, Bekasi Regency. From the results of a
survey conducted after the training activities, the participants were very satisfied with the ease of obtaining
information about the implementation of the training, the training material in the form of processing used cooking
oil waste and improving digital-branding skills which were considered very necessary for residents and the way
the instructor delivered material that was easy to understand.