Diseño del proceso industrial para la elaboración de shampoo a partir de la saponina de la raíz de penco (Agave Americano) en la fábrica “infusiones y cosméticos naturales”

Abstract

The objective of this work was to design an industrial process for the elaboration of shampoo from the saponin of Penco root (American agave) for the factory "infusions and natural cosmetics," where we sought to develop an alternative that provides an added value to Andean plants such as Penco. Therefore, as a first step, the raw material was selected, and after washing, 802.34g of Penco root was obtained. The size of the Penco root was reduced using 750 g of 96% ethanol., thus getting 1552.34g of the Penco-ethanol mixture. Subsequently, the mixture above was filtered, obtaining 917.78 g of purified extract. Then, a distillation occurs, resulting in 342.78 g of saponin, with which 500 g of natural shampoo was obtained. Finally, the necessary physicochemical analyses are based on the NTE INEN 851 standard to determine whether the product is suitable to be marketed. It was also possible to verify that the project is economically viable since the IRR value was 39% and the NPV was $197,337.87, with an investment recovery of less than ten years and a cost-benefit of $1.47.