The purpose of this research was to design and carved soap products for gift and souvenirs and to study the opinions on the product design from carved soap products as gift souvenirs. The tool was questionnaire as the collect data from 7 experts and 100 samples. The data were analyzed by frequency percentage and mean in the form of tables and description as follow: 1. Most experts commented that should develop the product design from carved soap to difference from another one in the market. In addition the problem of creating product design from carved soap should be explain how to use chemicals to help maintaining. Then developmental guidelines should provide a number of useful uses and show polyester resurfacing on carved soap it is suitable because of keeping them were not broken. Moreover the polyester resin coating is too thick it was effect pattern craving more clearly Finally they chose the second sketching ideas because the product can hang on the wall and put in the table. It is quite look natural. 2. The samples opinions on the products of carved soap as a gift found that the design at the high level the average was at 4 . 1 5 . The overall aesthetic was at the highest level at 4.23 in terms of value and utility. The overall score was at 4.23.

The Products Development of Crafting Herbal Soap Carved for OTOP Of Tambon Prakhonchai Amphur Prakhonchai Burirum Province” aims to study the development of the Herbal Soap Carved products which made from a household waste soap by applying to indigenous..knowledge. This research is both a quality and quantity research. Data were collected gathering related documents and researches.Then developed new formula for soap carving. The 5 developed formula of soap was tested and comments by experts . The product of soap carvings has 3 herbal scent lemongrass-scent Kaffir- scent and Lemon- scent. Using the Survey Research method. The target group of 100 people. The tool was used in collecting information. consisted of The 5 formulas of soap product 5 sets and the questionnaires 2 sets sets 1 for professionals include questionnaires about physical properties of soap scented of soap which suited for crave products. Analyzed by using a statistical average and the open of the answer. Set 2 for the target group Questions about the feedback on the product scent herbal soap carved soap fragments from waste soap Using Statistic program to find frequency and the percentage value and then presented in the form of tables of composition. The researcher collected data related to the production of soap The result of data analysis was found that 1. The formula C was selected by expert for the best soap from all (soap meat ratio 30: 70 water) 2. Most of respondents are interested in carving herbal soap products that made from a household waste soap at the level of 99.00 percent People who are interested in carving soap product herbal scent when they see the first sight at the level of 98.00% People who think the fragments of product is proper at the - level of 98.00% People who think the smell of the product is appropriate - at the level of 97.00% People who think the product is appropriate to be souvenir home furnishings or gift - at the level 97.00%

The objective of this research was to determine the formulation of soap for carving operations and study the satisfaction of developed carved-soap by carving person. There were 3 basic formulas of the soap e.g. olive oil formula (formula 1; 500 ml olive oil 60 g sodium hydroxide and 140 ml water) coconut oil formula (formula 2; 200 ml coconut oil 34 g sodium hydroxide and 80 ml water) and glycerin formula (formula 3; 200 g glycerin and 5 g sodium hydroxide). The basic formula 3 showed the highest satisfaction scores from carving person when compared with other formulas. The next experiment was to find the optimal temperature for heating the mixtures in the range of 40-60oC. The results showed that the temperature of 45oC was the best treatment for heating three types of soap mixtures. Moreover the formula 3 soap received the highest satisfaction scores ( X = 4.21-4.53) from carving person which had the good appearance exquisite styles shape and proportion right. There was no crack no visible of mold growth and soap powder on the product after caving operations. The satisfaction of 52 carving persons between the general soap and developed carved-soap for carving operations was studied using 5-point rating scales. The satisfaction scores of softness stickiness and aroma were significant different (p<0.05) between two types of soap. However the dryness/hardness silkiness color painting property and overall quality scores were not different. The suitable shape of soap for carving operations was a round shape followed by square shape oval shape and heart shape respectively.