I use this stuff at work to clean mash out of pipes and tanks. I work in an ethanol plant and have to mix a batch of this stuff, about 2-3% solution and run it through pumps, pipes, tanks, etc. Crazy powerful stuff.
I work in a facility that makes different medical products and components of or medical treatments. We use sodium hydroxide on a daily basis to clean our metal resusued parts, we fill thousands of liters of it into barrels to go out probably for mass production of soaps and stuff. ive gotten some pretty concentrated stuff on me but i washed it off before it did damage, it just made a little rash like spot on my forehead 😂 one of those tubes burst from the gun we have that seals the barrel off when its done filling and it sprayed at me. Since i was filling sealed barrels where its in closed off tubing and stuff i didnt have PPE on because that would be obnoxious haha. Great video!
Crystals are used to clean my kitchen drain which hasnt much slope to it , so its crystals first followed by some hot water , watch for spitting and keep your face out of the way .. Listen for the roar going down the pipes - Im on 8th floor - so everything below gets cleared as well . The roar , can be heard going along the main pipes if a bit much goes in . Its also quite good at cleaning toilet pans - sprinkle in , wait until reaction is done then flush - the bowl should be clean , even up round the bend .
Is it really good for clearing off oil from pipes or sinks though? Although changing it into a huge chunk of soap helps dissolves it in water over time, you would literally need to keep your water running constantly for a long period of time since soap doesn't really dissolve by just sitting in stagnant water.
Thanks for the interesting video. Would that make sense to dissolve hair and produce plant fertilizer (provided KOH is used instead of NaOH to avoid sodicity in the soil, and the overall pH is finally neutral)? I havent found much info on that topic. Thanks again
I honestly wouldn't know. However there's a shorter route there. Hair is completely compostable and has a similar composition to bone meal. It counts as greens in the greens/browns balance.
Don't forget to tell your plumber if you've used it when they come to unblock a drain. Nobody got time for piranha fluid under the sink or up in the air.
Do I necessarily have to use hot water when I use it to declog drain pipes possibly filled with accumulated solidified oil. It is cold where I live. Thank you 🙂
I have a barrel that was filled with Sodium Hydroxide AC103. Product made by Eco Lab. What do you recommend I use to clean or neutralize it. I want to wash out.the barrel and use it for a rain barrel to watery garden
in very low amounts like in toothpaste, it is okay. but in products like drain cleaner where it is a 20%+ solution, it is dangerous. it can cause blindness if it touches the eyeball, it can cause necrosis and chemical burns when you drink it or if it touches your skin.
I read that they use sodium hydroxide in certain cream hair removers. I'm wondering if I can figure out a way to mix sodium hydroxide with something else in order to kill hair follicles safely in specific areas so they grow back less, or permanently destroy the hair follicles. Got any suggestions or advice for me???
Don't. Honestly. Nare and other depilatory creams are made with a mixture of sodium hydroxide and ammonium thioglycolate. It's fairly unique because it mostly dissolves only hair proteins. If slowing or even shutting down the follicle is your goal Laser is the way to go
@@CosmoDad something like that. What I mean is,I want to create a kind of Nutrient broth, that is made from hair rinsed with calcium hydroxide solution. That alkaline medium should be able to leach out some of the amino Acids present in the hair
I wouldn't be concerned about the Sodium Hydroxide in the shampoo bar. I would be concerned about long term shampoo bar use for other reasons. They tend to leave build up
@@CosmoDad I get that about redoing the entire video. I don't know how youtube works so don't know if text overlay could be added at this point. Thing is, I only learned about Nixtamal a few months ago. I remember running to my soap making stash, only to realize I had on hand the wrong 'hydroxide'. I found the calcium in the latin store almost next to the corn. Even though your video is about melting hair, you never know how someone may use the info you share. Safety is all I'm thinking.
depends what you wanna do with it, NaOH, AKA Sodium Hydroxide will either improve or destroy: if you use concentrated solutions you have what happens in this video, if you use very low concentrations, it'll relax the hair.
Here I am studying ways to dispose of bodies for a book I'm writing, and I find out, sodium hydroxide, a chemical labs use to dissolve bodies is casually ised as a drain cleaner.
I'm convinced sodium hydroxide is the main active ingredient in Head &Shoulders, the original version. The modern version doesn't seem nearly as effective. I recall getting a burning sensation if I left in on too long, but the dandruff what greatly reduced. A friend of mine mentioned they don't use it because it burns their scalp. A supermarket brought out their own version which was very effective but also gave that burning sensation. People must have complained because it disappeared a few months later. I'm tempted to buy some regular shampoo and add some in, though I wouldn't know how much. I bet it will work. I think the zinc just acts as a preventative/fungal growth inhibitor.
@@CosmoDad if I remember they use the intestines or maybe an organ of an ox like animal I forgot what it's called but well the 1st zeppelins used rubber but due to static well they replaced it with that animal fiber
This happens with some drain cleaners... what i wanted to know is if the hydrogen gas can affect the stuff in.the bathroom like your toothbrush or your towel... meaning if the gas/fumes will stick on these materials?
@@travissingh6090 nope, hydrogen is a gas which will most likely bond with oxygen to make water if given an ignition. Worst case scenario if your near sulfur, which it will make hydrogen sulfide. But you said bathroom so no, worst case scenario it stays and accumulate there and makes the bathroom go boom incase of accidents but highly unlikely
@@CosmoDad that's more when it's liquids, like 98% H2SO4, for solids like Sodium Hydroxide, SOP in the lab i'm in is to add the water in second, to speed up dissolution.
I use a lot of sodium hydroxide per week (about 40 lbs / week) in my business, when reacting in water, the gas is very offensive and very harmful, it can probably turn your lungs into soap.
Thank sooooo much for the info!!! I was like sodium hydroxide KILLS U!! I am like why are they selling it on soaps!? Just preparing myself in case they ask me when I am sell my soaps. You know how some people are grrr….THANKS for your info I can tell them : “they don’t use tons of if and by the way you’ve eat it too in pretzels, bagels, and toothpaste.” 🎤 😂
In soap, the sodium hydroxide has completely reacted with the oils, so none left to give you a chemical burn. The same with pretzels - they just put a little bit on to help it brown.
"really good beneficial products in toothpaste" - flouride: acidic and a huge profitable myth that it helps teeth. Humanity needs to study this scientifically to a higher standard. Follow the money. A lot of businesses benefit from the sale of flouride, and the harmful effects are slow enough and masked by other ingredients that it's not easy to understand the harm. As ever, where there's uncertainty and big profits, the argument that makes money will dominate the debate.
Fluoride in toothpaste is acidic? They put sodium fluoride in toothpaste not hydrofluoric acid. If you aren't convinced you can always put some toothpaste on a PH test strip.
@@mqb3gofjzkko7nzx38 they balance the acid, that's how sodium flouride is made. Let's be clear, what they are using in toothpaste is processed factory waste.
@@artofverity8791 Is there a difference between industrial fluoride and the fluoride that naturally occurs in ground water sources and black tea leaves?
This is my fav hair channel rn because you’re hair scientist❤
Thank you so much!
your content is so underrated ❤️
hey i love the vid please make more like this
Thank you! I have such a long list! Definitely more to come! Thanks for watching!
I use this stuff at work to clean mash out of pipes and tanks. I work in an ethanol plant and have to mix a batch of this stuff, about 2-3% solution and run it through pumps, pipes, tanks, etc. Crazy powerful stuff.
Used to haul it at 50% solution. If any gets on you
You have seconds to get it off
I work in a facility that makes different medical products and components of or medical treatments. We use sodium hydroxide on a daily basis to clean our metal resusued parts, we fill thousands of liters of it into barrels to go out probably for mass production of soaps and stuff. ive gotten some pretty concentrated stuff on me but i washed it off before it did damage, it just made a little rash like spot on my forehead 😂 one of those tubes burst from the gun we have that seals the barrel off when its done filling and it sprayed at me. Since i was filling sealed barrels where its in closed off tubing and stuff i didnt have PPE on because that would be obnoxious haha. Great video!
Awesome pun!
oh nice little heart shape transition
"... but then I went clean"
Dad in channel name... checks out 👍
Crystals are used to clean my kitchen drain which hasnt much slope to it , so its crystals first followed by some hot water , watch for spitting and keep your face out of the way ..
Listen for the roar going down the pipes - Im on 8th floor - so everything below gets cleared as well . The roar , can be heard going along the main pipes if a bit much goes in . Its also quite good at cleaning toilet pans - sprinkle in , wait until reaction is done then flush - the bowl should be clean , even up round the bend .
Was that a fight club reference on the no longer in the soap business followed by the punches 🤘🏼😁
Is it really good for clearing off oil from pipes or sinks though? Although changing it into a huge chunk of soap helps dissolves it in water over time, you would literally need to keep your water running constantly for a long period of time since soap doesn't really dissolve by just sitting in stagnant water.
Thanks for the interesting video. Would that make sense to dissolve hair and produce plant fertilizer (provided KOH is used instead of NaOH to avoid sodicity in the soil, and the overall pH is finally neutral)? I havent found much info on that topic. Thanks again
I honestly wouldn't know. However there's a shorter route there. Hair is completely compostable and has a similar composition to bone meal. It counts as greens in the greens/browns balance.
It cleans like you won't believe
When mixed with water, does it melt away plastic, and silicone, and softer plastics?
Don't forget to tell your plumber if you've used it when they come to unblock a drain.
Nobody got time for piranha fluid under the sink or up in the air.
What respirator are you using in this video?
What is the concentration?
On my local news, a guy fell into a vat of this stuff a few days ago. Looking this up after😮
Cream relaxer??
Do I necessarily have to use hot water when I use it to declog drain pipes possibly filled with accumulated solidified oil. It is cold where I live. Thank you 🙂
No you dont have too, raising the temperature just increases the rate that it’s dissolves stuff basically it will just work faster
Yes. The hitter the water the greater the reaction. You want the heat to clear your clogs
I have a barrel that was filled with Sodium Hydroxide AC103. Product made by Eco Lab. What do you recommend I use to clean or neutralize it. I want to wash out.the barrel and use it for a rain barrel to watery garden
I suggest using a molar equivalent of HCL (hydrochloric acid) NaOh + HCL -> NaCl and H2O
dilute it then neutralize with an acid
in very low amounts like in toothpaste, it is okay. but in products like drain cleaner where it is a 20%+ solution, it is dangerous. it can cause blindness if it touches the eyeball, it can cause necrosis and chemical burns when you drink it or if it touches your skin.
Please help me..is it dangerous if I smell it I didn't know that it is dangerous
@@PauLeaderit's very dangerous on skin
I found NaOH in a shaving foam ingredient list.
I read that they use sodium hydroxide in certain cream hair removers. I'm wondering if I can figure out a way to mix sodium hydroxide with something else in order to kill hair follicles safely in specific areas so they grow back less, or permanently destroy the hair follicles.
Got any suggestions or advice for me???
Don't. Honestly. Nare and other depilatory creams are made with a mixture of sodium hydroxide and ammonium thioglycolate. It's fairly unique because it mostly dissolves only hair proteins. If slowing or even shutting down the follicle is your goal Laser is the way to go
Lol ....always interesting! And always appreciate the knowledge gained.
At best you get a Brazilian wax job. At worst you lose your leg. 😒 Is it worth it?
Can i use Calcium Hydroxide to slightly breakdown hair to release some of its nutrients? Thank you.
I really wouldn't know. Are you talking about for composting hair?
@@CosmoDad something like that. What I mean is,I want to create a kind of Nutrient broth, that is made from hair rinsed with calcium hydroxide solution. That alkaline medium should be able to leach out some of the amino Acids present in the hair
I have put my vacuum brush full of hairs to sodium hydroxide and it took 2 days to dissolve it
Probably the mix was fairly week.
whats the conc of NaoH?
i was burned by it today at work from some liquid dish was detergent
I heard it can dissolve whole bodies. How long would it take for a whole body to dissolve with sodium hydroxide?
Lol. I'm not even going to speculate. However there have been cases of high alkalinity leading to soap mummies...
Why on earth would you want to know this 🤨
Plz can u tell ...is it safe to use shampoo bar that has sodium hydroxide...over a long period of time
I wouldn't be concerned about the Sodium Hydroxide in the shampoo bar. I would be concerned about long term shampoo bar use for other reasons. They tend to leave build up
@@CosmoDad oh ok tq😊😊
@@CosmoDad so do u tell that shampoo is better than shampoo bar(organic handmde) for life long usage🙄
Yes in general, liquid shampoos rinse cleaner. But if it works for you there's no harm
@@CosmoDad tq u so much for replying 😊😊😊
I know this is an old video but for the corn (nixtamal) it's calcium hydroxide (lime).
True. That was my mistake but I didn't want to remake the whole video especially considering calcium hydroxide is used for some relaxers as well
@@CosmoDad I get that about redoing the entire video. I don't know how youtube works so don't know if text overlay could be added at this point. Thing is, I only learned about Nixtamal a few months ago. I remember running to my soap making stash, only to realize I had on hand the wrong 'hydroxide'. I found the calcium in the latin store almost next to the corn. Even though your video is about melting hair, you never know how someone may use the info you share. Safety is all I'm thinking.
Ah, I have the same kind of gas mask
The Joke at the start.. dear god 🙂😂
Got it in my eye’s yesterday lucky to be alive
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Where did you get the brooch thing?
It's a cicada bolo tie. I got it from Amazon.
@@CosmoDad thank you 🙏 it is fabulous.
Can we use naoh for hair pls reply who well know about it
depends what you wanna do with it, NaOH, AKA Sodium Hydroxide will either improve or destroy:
if you use concentrated solutions you have what happens in this video, if you use very low concentrations, it'll relax the hair.
Here I am studying ways to dispose of bodies for a book I'm writing, and I find out, sodium hydroxide, a chemical labs use to dissolve bodies is casually ised as a drain cleaner.
methanol and lye is 2 time's stronger than lye and water
Is the 8 second product advertized NaOH?
Yes! It is pure Sodium Hydroxide in water. It is sold as drain cleaner and clearly labeled as hazardous.
@@CosmoDad i figured... thanks for your quick response 🙂👍✌️☀️❤️
I'm convinced sodium hydroxide is the main active ingredient in Head &Shoulders, the original version. The modern version doesn't seem nearly as effective. I recall getting a burning sensation if I left in on too long, but the dandruff what greatly reduced. A friend of mine mentioned they don't use it because it burns their scalp. A supermarket brought out their own version which was very effective but also gave that burning sensation. People must have complained because it disappeared a few months later. I'm tempted to buy some regular shampoo and add some in, though I wouldn't know how much. I bet it will work. I think the zinc just acts as a preventative/fungal growth inhibitor.
I see a pattern here
this will show, dont let hair shampoo for long time on your hair..
I thought tortillas used Calcium Hydroxide for Nixtimalization
I believe you are correct. Calcium hydroxide is also used in sensitive scalp relaxers
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Sodium hydroxide + aluminium + water = hydrogen gas
Hydrogen that can be used to lift massive flying balloon vehicles back in the 1900-1937
Have you ever seen what they made the inner air bladders for those things out of?
@@CosmoDad if I remember they use the intestines or maybe an organ of an ox like animal
I forgot what it's called but well the 1st zeppelins used rubber but due to static well they replaced it with that animal fiber
This happens with some drain cleaners... what i wanted to know is if the hydrogen gas can affect the stuff in.the bathroom like your toothbrush or your towel... meaning if the gas/fumes will stick on these materials?
@@travissingh6090 nope, hydrogen is a gas which will most likely bond with oxygen to make water if given an ignition.
Worst case scenario if your near sulfur, which it will make hydrogen sulfide.
But you said bathroom so no, worst case scenario it stays and accumulate there and makes the bathroom go boom incase of accidents but highly unlikely
Why are there so many videos of people adding lye to water when it should be the opposite?
Just like acids, you should generally add alkalines to water not the other way around
@@CosmoDad that's more when it's liquids, like 98% H2SO4, for solids like Sodium Hydroxide, SOP in the lab i'm in is to add the water in second, to speed up dissolution.
Wet your lips, kiss the back of your hand, then pour this powder on it
1:15 💪🏼😂💪🏼💀🦸🏽♂️🦸🏼♀️
why are you wearing a respirator...
You really shouldn't breathe in the vapors from a sodium hydroxide solution
@@CosmoDad I thought NaOH does not form vapors? It ionizes in water?🤔
It was mostly for dramatic effect
I use a lot of sodium hydroxide per week (about 40 lbs / week) in my business, when reacting in water, the gas is very offensive and very harmful, it can probably turn your lungs into soap.
Ooh so now we know why he doesn't have any hair 😅
Dad joke ⚠️ ALERT ⚠️ LOL! 👍🤣🤣
Jokes and I did not buy my books yet?
You Washed your hair in it and now you lost hair?
Thank sooooo much for the info!!! I was like sodium hydroxide KILLS U!! I am like why are they selling it on soaps!? Just preparing myself in case they ask me when I am sell my soaps. You know how some people are grrr….THANKS for your info I can tell them : “they don’t use tons of if and by the way you’ve eat it too in pretzels, bagels, and toothpaste.” 🎤 😂
In soap, the sodium hydroxide has completely reacted with the oils, so none left to give you a chemical burn. The same with pretzels - they just put a little bit on to help it brown.
Sodium hydroxide is not in soap. It reacts with a fatty acid to create soap in a reaction called saponification
generally for soap making you want to have more fats than hydroxide, AKA overfatting, this way you're sure your soap won't have hydroxide left.
Powedered, building lye...lol
Have fun eating McDonald's ice cream and in pretzel making.
Do meth manufacturers use it?
"really good beneficial products in toothpaste" - flouride: acidic and a huge profitable myth that it helps teeth. Humanity needs to study this scientifically to a higher standard. Follow the money. A lot of businesses benefit from the sale of flouride, and the harmful effects are slow enough and masked by other ingredients that it's not easy to understand the harm. As ever, where there's uncertainty and big profits, the argument that makes money will dominate the debate.
Fluoride in toothpaste is acidic? They put sodium fluoride in toothpaste not hydrofluoric acid. If you aren't convinced you can always put some toothpaste on a PH test strip.
@@mqb3gofjzkko7nzx38 they balance the acid, that's how sodium flouride is made. Let's be clear, what they are using in toothpaste is processed factory waste.
@@artofverity8791 Is there a difference between industrial fluoride and the fluoride that naturally occurs in ground water sources and black tea leaves?
Goggles man. Goggles. Your not shooting a gun or running a saw. Goggles
You do not need a respirator for this
The fumes can damage your lungs & eyes
It's a drain cleaner
@@jamesstead7851 it does not let off fumes
@@jadentonkin466: Absolutely WRONG, it releases a violent and very offensive gas that can destroy your lungs !!!!!.
@@jamesstead7851 no fumes