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  • @NileRed
    @NileRed  7 років тому +11812

    This video has been re-uploaded because I made an error in the last one. I said ashes have sodium hydroxide in them, when they really have potassium carbonate, which is converted to potassium hydroxide by treatment with calcium hydroxide or oxide.
    I hate having to reupload, but the error was too big for me to let go. I do not like the idea of spreading misinformation. I hope you guys can understand!

    • @xydya
      @xydya 7 років тому +1349

      NileRed Honestly, most people wouldn't even reupload. They'd just edit the description but this is one of the reasons I'm such a big fan of your channel!

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  7 років тому +1291

      Thanks, I appreciate it!

    • @thehearth8773
      @thehearth8773 7 років тому +352

      Good on you for reuploading instead of just adding an annotation or something. Misinformation really bothers me and I'm glad to see people try to correct it.

    • @kevinbyrne4538
      @kevinbyrne4538 7 років тому +221

      Actually, from the Middle Ages to 1791 (when Frenchman Nicolas Leblanc discovered how to make synthetic sodium carbonate), the ashes of plants that grew along salt marshes were used as a source of sodium carbonate. Such ashes were called "barilla": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barilla
      Barilla would be mixed with quicklime (calcium oxide) and then water would be poured onto the mixture. The water that drained from the mixture would be rich in sodium hydroxide. By repeatedly passing the same water through the mixture of barilla and quicklime, a solution of sodium hydroxide could be made which was sufficiently concentrated for the manufacture of soap.

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  7 років тому +274

      hmm interesting!

  • @SageSylvie
    @SageSylvie 4 роки тому +13763

    Soap is the literal definition of: "I used the grease to destroy the grease"

  • @iwanadiefast
    @iwanadiefast 7 років тому +12900

    "I do not like the idea of spreading misinformation"
    we need more people like you

    • @stopthephilosophicalzombie9017
      @stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 6 років тому +103

      Yeah I sometimes think that Hollywood does that to keep wayward kids from trying stuff, but by the same token they glamorize other things so it's never consistent. Smart kids always figure out what they want anyway, especially now that we've got the internet. The sociopaths have every destructive device at their fingertips short of Howitzers and nukes. ; ) I made gunpowder from constituent parts as a kid and my pharmacist gave me an odd look when I asked for potassium nitrate (I think I asked for saltpetre), but he actually sold it to me. Of course there wasn't enough to make but a few small firecrackers, so perhaps he thought I wouldn't be able to get in much trouble.

    • @maggiep9007
      @maggiep9007 6 років тому +87

      I read about a guy who blew his face off trying to shake n bake meth using (incorrect) chemicals he saw on the news.
      Harm reduction and harm magnification are the same thing I guess?

    • @stopthephilosophicalzombie9017
      @stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 6 років тому +34

      +Maggie P Can't fix stupid.

    • @allihusk6519
      @allihusk6519 5 років тому +30

      @@maggiep9007 Calculated move. Natural selection can't take place so we have to have some incentive lol

    • @The-pf4zy
      @The-pf4zy 5 років тому +10

      I do not like the idea of spreading misinformation.

  • @zechnology7
    @zechnology7 Рік тому +301

    A random person on a plane was explaining this to me and he then tried to sell me soap

    • @独木桥-h1y
      @独木桥-h1y 6 місяців тому +41

      Did he also invite you to join some club?

    • @josieburgart2172
      @josieburgart2172 3 місяці тому

      @@独木桥-h1ywatch it bud. You almost broke the first rule

    • @elchupqcabra3301
      @elchupqcabra3301 3 місяці тому

      @@独木桥-h1ydon,t forget first 2 rules ....

    • @bulletkiller0689
      @bulletkiller0689 2 місяці тому

      @@独木桥-h1y First rule of soap club

    • @DumbOrangeFrog
      @DumbOrangeFrog 2 місяці тому

      @@独木桥-h1y cult type shit lol

  • @georgehands_
    @georgehands_ 4 роки тому +3656

    As a kid, I used to freeze shampoo thinking I would be able to use it as soap.

    • @amediocreexistence
      @amediocreexistence 3 роки тому +507

      I used to freeze milk thinking I could make ice cream 😅

    • @oxybrightdark8765
      @oxybrightdark8765 3 роки тому +296

      @@amediocreexistence frozen flavoured milk like strawberry or chocolate makes a nice lolly

    • @thor4259
      @thor4259 3 роки тому +22

      @@oxybrightdark8765 lol...

    • @spandexgoblin
      @spandexgoblin 3 роки тому +13

      did it work

    • @maracachucho8701
      @maracachucho8701 3 роки тому +68

      @@spandexgoblin it probably did for the few minutes it was frozen.

  • @cvsaire287
    @cvsaire287 5 років тому +5430

    Soap beaker: cinnamon
    Soap beaker: lavender
    Soap beaker: cocoa
    Soap beaker: *METH*

    • @doraorak
      @doraorak 5 років тому +233

      I am not in danger mom i am the danger xd

    • @AkerCW
      @AkerCW 5 років тому +84

      yes thats what i saw too, thought i had lost it lmaoo

    • @Broockle
      @Broockle 5 років тому +15

      I didn't think of that xD

    • @thingiezz
      @thingiezz 5 років тому +71

      Considering that the soap would hurt when used, the name should be something hardcore

    • @killgaet6253
      @killgaet6253 5 років тому +11

      @@SS-qs3yq kek

  • @connorpert3633
    @connorpert3633 4 роки тому +4134

    Just as a little note. Please never use ANY form of cinnamon in soap. Even if you want to get a cinnamon sent, dont use essential oil. It can burn your skin. Use fragrance oils (as they are synthetically made) and if you want the look of cinnamon, use poppy/apricot/blueberry seed

    • @connorpert3633
      @connorpert3633 3 роки тому +189

      @Joseph Bleifus as long as it's a small quantity. If you put too much it can cause burns. But other than that, you do you

    • @Kai-Made
      @Kai-Made 3 роки тому +63

      There is such a thing as "display only" soap and I could see upping the oil in such a thing...but not Cinnamon...I hate that stuff. I gag when I smell it strongly. I like mints though. Either way less is more in my opinion. A few drops for scent is one thing...anymore and you could go blind by washing your face...and I am allergic to Cinnamon...break out in red splotches when I consume much of it...I would hate to know what would happy if I bathed in it.
      Probably just die...lol.

    • @liziren1983
      @liziren1983 3 роки тому +13

      @@Kai-Made Is there a website or brand names of "display only soap"? I had never heard of this before and googling this term brings up regular soap.

    • @Kai-Made
      @Kai-Made 3 роки тому +48

      @@liziren1983 I know it exists...otherwise I need to patent that idea asap. For real though. Here in WV we have these little "niche" shops where you can buy flowers and "kitch" you know pretty little "rustic" looking things...and they have soaps for the back of toilets shaped like stars and hearts and flowers and mermaids etc...all contain WAY more fragrant oils than that of normal body safe soap. I suppose technically you could use them for soap but when your eyes melt when you rub your face don't cry about it.
      The cinnamon ones are the worse offenders.

    • @liziren1983
      @liziren1983 3 роки тому +17

      @@Kai-Made ah I thought those were all still just regular soap, except not good. I recall being a kid and seeing fun shaped and super scented soaps around my home at some point, but I don’t remember if they ever did me any harm. I certainly don’t like using just any soap anymore but I never knew something like cinnamon could be dangerous! If I’m not mistaken, some holiday liquid soaps are cinnamon scented. Anyway, now I know to be more vigilant about my soaps’ ingredients!

  • @Zombie_Zed
    @Zombie_Zed Рік тому +298

    I can’t break the number 1 rule but I’m amazed UA-cam would recommend the soap and the margarine videos after I literally just got done watching that movie.

    • @strogonoffcore
      @strogonoffcore Рік тому +20

      time to go to a plastic surgery clinic at night

    • @strogonoffcore
      @strogonoffcore Рік тому +9

      @@pomelo9518 fight club

    • @angelic..9906
      @angelic..9906 Рік тому +1

      @@pomelo9518 its ***** ****

    • @tobylewis8958
      @tobylewis8958 Рік тому +20

      @@strogonoffcore ssshhh, you're not supposed to talk about that.

    • @jamescheddar4896
      @jamescheddar4896 3 місяці тому

      after the fall of civilization the soap and toilette paper makers will rule the planet

  • @yeetsilas1120
    @yeetsilas1120 3 роки тому +2424

    As a soap maker it's really entertaining to see a chemist know everything but struggle

    • @atakan618
      @atakan618 2 роки тому +69

      is that u tyler

    • @getdatpeppah6083
      @getdatpeppah6083 2 роки тому +8

      @@atakan618 hehe

    • @guysumpthin2974
      @guysumpthin2974 Рік тому +10

      Men should not go near lavender

    • @guysumpthin2974
      @guysumpthin2974 Рік тому +19

      As for skin exposure to sodium hydroxide, skin varies greatly from person to person, and if left in place will slowly start eating a hole

    • @accelmemory
      @accelmemory Рік тому +6

      How do you know if all the lye in the soap is gone, without having ph paper? Like, if you were making soap in a survival situation

  • @imquitefondofgeckos446
    @imquitefondofgeckos446 5 років тому +4032

    Nilered: wears gloves while handling strawberries and soap
    Also nilered: wears no gloves while handling LYE

    • @captainobvious.29yearsago70
      @captainobvious.29yearsago70 4 роки тому +148

      I mean, that's pretty easy to fix actually, just tell the truth

    • @imquitefondofgeckos446
      @imquitefondofgeckos446 4 роки тому +32

      Captain Obvious. heeheehoo

    • @mattlogue1300
      @mattlogue1300 4 роки тому +70

      It does burn skin. Once splashed it on my eyelid. That was not fun.

    • @lentoperoavanzo4007
      @lentoperoavanzo4007 3 роки тому +30

      One time I was holding the spatula I was using in my teeth and a drop of lye/water solution that must have splashed onto the handle gave me a blister on my lip.

    • @oumardiop1
      @oumardiop1 3 роки тому +97

      dude was making uranium glass and had nothing but some gloves on

  • @evanclarke6496
    @evanclarke6496 7 років тому +1455

    Nile, your videos help me SO much in my OChem class, especially when you go over mechanisms. thank you for everything you do. if i wasn't a broke college student, I'd be a patron

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  7 років тому +232

      No worries! Just glad to have you here :)

    • @Cronuz2
      @Cronuz2 7 років тому +26

      You are a true informer!
      educated as a personal trainer so not really deep into the chemistry.
      But im learning alot through your videos.

    • @Mr_Stanley888
      @Mr_Stanley888 7 років тому

      Me too man

    • @secrecy3915
      @secrecy3915 6 років тому +6

      Now this just makes my heart swell.

    • @cryingwater
      @cryingwater 6 років тому +1

      Most college students get broke mysteriously the moment they meet their professors. Others get away by sticking to others.

  • @TheMrVerbal
    @TheMrVerbal 3 роки тому +94

    Made this tonight with my kids, used a slightly higher coconut oil content from the adjusted version of the recipe you used. Pretty easy and the kids enjoyed watching it happen. Thanks for making the video.

  • @kindlin
    @kindlin 5 років тому +2400

    7:50 _purposefully dips in finger to show how not harmful it is_
    *Next scene*
    _has gloves on_

    • @screamintothevoid5336
      @screamintothevoid5336 4 роки тому +148

      We had to wear gloves and safety goggles while making tea in chemistry class once. And our teacher wasn't kidding...

    • @snowparody
      @snowparody 4 роки тому +37

      @@screamintothevoid5336 why was your class making tea...?

    • @screamintothevoid5336
      @screamintothevoid5336 4 роки тому +20

      @@snowparody i don't even remember

    • @josephinemabano4940
      @josephinemabano4940 4 роки тому +47

      @@screamintothevoid5336 was it that clitoria ternatea tea? The blue flower? Then you're made to change the pH by adding vinegar or baking soda and the color shifts from blue (basic) to pink (acidic)
      Or am i completely off

    • @screamintothevoid5336
      @screamintothevoid5336 4 роки тому +31

      @@josephinemabano4940 just some normal green tea :D

  • @trashbagandrew
    @trashbagandrew 3 роки тому +4094

    Nile red in 2019: making soap
    Nile red in 2021: making meth only using an easy bake oven

  • @sawruhs
    @sawruhs 4 роки тому +3352

    these 5-minute-crafts are kinda getting out of hand.
    edit: oh my god guys it's a joke.

  • @eddiep4600
    @eddiep4600 Місяць тому +2

    I know this video is old… but as someone who is getting into candle and soap making this was the most simple and straightforward video i have come across.. thank you very much will save it.

  • @stefanosiclari
    @stefanosiclari 3 роки тому +1916

    "This idea of using more oil than is needed is generally known as superfatting"
    Yeah, my mom does this every time she cooks

  • @razi_man
    @razi_man 3 роки тому +302

    My mom makes homemade soap since 2019 and still learning how to make better soap.
    This video honestly made me think of her and how the soap she makes keeps us in our roof. (and cleans our hands too)

    • @samurai90x
      @samurai90x Рік тому +17

      my mom has been making cold process soap for a while too, and her business has been expanding for years she now does all kinds of other stuff too now and even has a salt spa.

    • @fungo6631
      @fungo6631 Місяць тому

      My Argentinian great grandad was making soap in the 1940s when he lived in Germany.

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Місяць тому +1

      @@fungo6631 Lol. You know they didn’t actually make soap, right?

    • @TryinaD
      @TryinaD 24 дні тому

      @@fungo6631bad joke, because I’m pretty sure human soap is more logistical and processing trouble than it’s worth, no matter how evil you are. Also their soaps were famously fat-free and pretty bad quality as a result. So definitely zero human.

  • @cedar_pines
    @cedar_pines 5 років тому +2386

    I love this because he's just making soap but it's still in a lab

    • @PokeNebula
      @PokeNebula 4 роки тому +267

      I especially love the fact that he buys essential oils and refers to them by their actual chemical like “cinnemaldehyde” 😁

    • @scooble_
      @scooble_ 4 роки тому +50

      This is a very important experiment.

    • @ghalicharif3204
      @ghalicharif3204 4 роки тому +46

      where tf do you think soap is made lmao

    • @u-phoria7022
      @u-phoria7022 4 роки тому +1

      Shush

    • @youssefhachicha49
      @youssefhachicha49 4 роки тому +11

      What did u think he is gonna make it in a kitchen or something like that?

  • @awarose
    @awarose Рік тому +62

    As someone who made a few soaps it's not this difficult! It's actually really fun and if the rules here were not so strict and the fees for permits and such in the EU weren't so high I would consider making it a small side business for fun.
    He made a thick trace and some of the additives accelerated the soap even more, once you get a light trace most soap will pretty quickly go to a thicker trace so it would have been better to go for a light trace and just mix those with seeds and such a little bit longer until the seeds were suspended, if he had more coconut oil in that blend the soap would have hardened before he could get the soap out of the beakers. With any additives you should consider the amount since to much of some things can cause irritation and others is fine to add plenty, cinnamon is best left as a spice it does not belong in skin products at all, it can easily burn and cause rashes. Other additives like honey can heat the soap so it makes a soap volcano, where it can bubble out of the form if you ad to much or have the mixture to hot to begin with, so you have to do some research before trying something new but there's plenty of good information and simple recipes online for beginners and once you get a bit more comfortable with the basic steps you can make your own recipes by using a soap calculator changing just one oil can make a completely different soap, or just go with a recipe you like and play around with additives or color designs, the possibilities are basically endless.
    I do like that he acted normal about the sodium hydroxide, so many soap forums and videos are treating it as it was a volatile explosive, yes it gets hot fast (make sure the beaker or whatever you use can handle that), and yes it's not good to get on you but protect your eyes, always add the powder to water and let it cool down a bit before moving and you'll be fine, never got it on me by just treating it respectfully but confidently. If you get it on your skin the oils there will become soap and you will be left with a completely dry spot intill the oils build up again, this ofc can feel irritated and be more sensitive but its not dangerous, in your eyes its ofc a lot more sensitive so protect then and also don't breath in the fumes your lungs won't like it. When using sodium hydroxide as a drain cleaner it actually makes soap in the pipes if you have any oil or fat down there, but it will wash away quickly since you don't let it cure.

    • @akshitrajputhere
      @akshitrajputhere Рік тому

      I am thinking of creating a small business out of this too. How would you write the soaps name on the bar?

    • @awarose
      @awarose Рік тому +1

      @@akshitrajputhere many makers who sell stamp the soap when it's still a little bit soft. In my country (and probably all of EU) it's more common to just have a plane bar with a paper sleeve that have the logo, name and all the information they are required to have like an ingredient list, contact information to the company pr person selling the soap, batch number, weight and best before date, so it's quite a lot of info to squeeze in.

    • @akshitrajputhere
      @akshitrajputhere Рік тому

      @@awarose Okay, Thanks

    • @yonikki
      @yonikki Рік тому +2

      @awa rose I agree about everything you mentioned ... except the sodium hydroxide (solution) reaction to skin. I discount my water by 25% so maybe it affects my skin differently than others. I wore mid-length gloves and somehow the solution was transferred from my apron to my arms and dripped over time INTO my gloves. I live in hot & humid S Florida (USA) so that was probably a contributing factor as I mix my lye water outside for safety. I showered but woke up with burns down my arms that continued getting worse for over 24 hours. I had to wrap my arms in ointment & gauze with long sleeves because the pain was unbearable. I stopped making soap until my wounds were healed - 4 weeks. Apparently my arms were turning to soap and kept weeping puss fluid, which was impossible to stop. Also ... I added my lye to coffee water (instant) that was about 100°F and a volcano erupted causing permanent damage to our teak outdoor table top. I immediately hosed it down but that didn't prevent the damage. Uh ... very scary although I was wearing goggles and fully cover in protective clothing. Location (temp/humidity) contributes a variable we aren't always thinking about when following the chemistry of soap making. Just be extra careful and enjoy the process! Now, I look like a mad scientist when making soap after those 2 experiences.

    • @ano_nym
      @ano_nym Рік тому

      You could look into your laws, here in Sweden there's at least a method that could be used. Here you can make "soap for animals" and get around lots of the harsh regulations.

  • @infintiyward
    @infintiyward 5 років тому +1508

    For some reason, I laughed really hard when your mint soap turned orange. I've watched a lot of videos and you're explanations of complex processes are so clear, so when you messed up food coloring so drastically It was funny.

    • @mohamedayoubneggaz1581
      @mohamedayoubneggaz1581 4 роки тому +31

      same! guess orange is the new green.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 4 роки тому +81

      Here's a description of the chemical processes that occur as I perform this complicated experiment.
      Also my green accidentally turned orange.

    • @joeljobi6149
      @joeljobi6149 4 роки тому +4

      *your

    • @ChaoGG
      @ChaoGG 4 роки тому +10

      @@joeljobi6149 wow it's almost like humans make mistakes 😳

    • @joeljobi6149
      @joeljobi6149 4 роки тому +5

      @@ChaoGG xD im sorry

  • @silver_235
    @silver_235 5 років тому +5738

    *me, sitting on my couch licking cheeto dust off my fingers* : hmm yes, triglycerides, that makes sense.

    • @DB-wb1tz
      @DB-wb1tz 4 роки тому +151

      Same, except I’m in my bed at 3 in the morning and it’s Cheetos puffs.

    • @onursenturk9871
      @onursenturk9871 4 роки тому +114

      I was bored and searched how to make a soup for no reason but I wrote it wrong than I saw Nile's video

    • @thanosbloodygangster4208
      @thanosbloodygangster4208 4 роки тому +3

      Riptide Gaming that’s literally exactly what I’m doing rn

    • @apricotduck
      @apricotduck 4 роки тому +24

      I feel personally offended considering I was really eating Doritos :D

    • @-watermelonking
      @-watermelonking 4 роки тому +4

      @@apricotduck same

  • @TheSongwritingCat
    @TheSongwritingCat 4 роки тому +1096

    *Starts pouring in additives without a measuring spoon*
    Me: He's going to add too much.
    "In each case, I think I added way too much stuff."

  • @rinnyig7644
    @rinnyig7644 Рік тому +15

    i didnt know tyler durden made science videos

  • @MauricioJePalma
    @MauricioJePalma 7 років тому +371

    "After mixing for a while, it somehow became orange instead."
    That doesn't look too ba-
    oh.

    • @myrmesuwu607
      @myrmesuwu607 4 роки тому +2

      *CHEMISTRY*

    • @masterzoroark6664
      @masterzoroark6664 4 роки тому +11

      The orange juice that tastes like mints

    • @samisavage891
      @samisavage891 4 роки тому +5

      @@masterzoroark6664 that just made me think about the way orange juice tastes after brushing your teeth lol

  • @mason9146
    @mason9146 4 роки тому +1779

    This dude just got addicted to soap making vids and then was like “wait i have a UA-cam channel”

    • @dariancomsa7204
      @dariancomsa7204 4 роки тому +35

      *Safya Nyagaar (I might have mislelled it) has entered the chat*

    • @nathatleue
      @nathatleue 4 роки тому +9

      Darian Comsa very misspelled. Safiya Nyagaard*

    • @dariancomsa7204
      @dariancomsa7204 4 роки тому +16

      @@nathatleue well, it's not THAT much. I just frogot an "i" and a "d"

    • @dariancomsa7204
      @dariancomsa7204 4 роки тому +2

      @@nathatleue thx for correcting me anyway

    • @puudathemeow5593
      @puudathemeow5593 4 роки тому +24

      @@nathatleue Actually it's Nygaard😅

  • @cryptid4131
    @cryptid4131 3 роки тому +2971

    Other youtubers making soap: "We don't want to add too much perfume! Just a few drops is enough."
    NileRed: *pours in half the bottle*

    • @matasa7463
      @matasa7463 3 роки тому +469

      This is a chemist we're dealing with here. He doesn't pussyfoot around. You're getting that whole dose, not that naturopathic nonsense. You will KNOW there's additives in there.

    • @LittleEinsteinAdi
      @LittleEinsteinAdi 3 роки тому +43

      @@matasa7463 Damn Calm Down With Your Language Dude

    • @swamisamartha3332
      @swamisamartha3332 2 роки тому +10

      @@matasa7463 why don't you drink it...don't give damn to naturopathic nonsense.
      You are the only one who has aalllll the sense.

    • @LittleEinsteinAdi
      @LittleEinsteinAdi 2 роки тому +107

      @@swamisamartha3332 did you have a stroke?

    • @swamisamartha3332
      @swamisamartha3332 2 роки тому +3

      @@LittleEinsteinAdi yes it seems I did play a master stroke...
      And you came to your senses.🤔

  • @dodec8449
    @dodec8449 2 роки тому +201

    Nile: grabs burning objects with his hand in other videos
    Also Nile: puts plastic on a beaker when mixing the ingredients for soap with a hand blender, because he's scared it might spill.

    • @coolxuan
      @coolxuan Рік тому +1

      true XD

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 9 місяців тому +2

      If I recall right one of the ingredients in soap is REALLY bad to touch

  • @boats_r_cool
    @boats_r_cool 5 років тому +568

    So technically, in my will, i can ask to turn my ashes into soap
    Hell yeah

    • @mini5701
      @mini5701 4 роки тому +80

      I guess you could also ask to save some fat tissue to use instead of oil...

    • @darknessml6145
      @darknessml6145 4 роки тому +67

      this seems oddly like something that happened in history

    • @onursenturk9871
      @onursenturk9871 4 роки тому +20

      YES Kermit flavored soap

    • @vecronatt
      @vecronatt 4 роки тому +12

      Wilson Percival Higgsbury waitwaitwait i think youre using soap wrong

    • @daisytackett72
      @daisytackett72 4 роки тому +6

      Pretty sure lye only comes from wood ashes but I’m no professional

  • @tommywiseau_
    @tommywiseau_ 5 років тому +2231

    no one:
    nilered: soap that makes you HURT

    • @pleasehelpicanneverthinkof5026
      @pleasehelpicanneverthinkof5026 5 років тому +79

      Bone hurting juice but its not the bones and its soap

    • @ElTurbinado
      @ElTurbinado 5 років тому +8

      So no one said nothing or... everybody said something... or... nothing or... what?

    • @soroosh_abd2589
      @soroosh_abd2589 5 років тому +20

      A great gift for your enemy

    • @Burak-ls5yd
      @Burak-ls5yd 5 років тому +26

      Actually, my first soap hurt me because I didn't know the reaction wasn't complete and rubbed my face with it and there was a lot of sodium hydroxide in it. Its pH was 12. :D (Then it got fixed after a day)

    • @cezarydudek6156
      @cezarydudek6156 4 роки тому +5

      oh hi mark

  • @emilyjanet455
    @emilyjanet455 3 роки тому +2196

    I physically recoiled when I saw how much menthol he added to one of them. Good LORD

    • @just_going_mads
      @just_going_mads 3 роки тому +163

      The Smokers Choice of soap.

    • @brunamaria3734
      @brunamaria3734 3 роки тому +18

      Why? Too much?

    • @emilyjanet455
      @emilyjanet455 3 роки тому +196

      @@brunamaria3734 you know when you have mentos or other breath mints and it feels really cooling? That's a tiny bit of menthol. Tiny tiny bit.

    • @Blorbobaggins
      @Blorbobaggins 3 роки тому +75

      My skin would instantly fall off, no joke.

    • @justmehere_
      @justmehere_ 3 роки тому +95

      its too late passed my bedtime and I thought you wrote methanol, not menthol and I was so confused lmao

  • @MrUtah1
    @MrUtah1 Рік тому +40

    Narrator: “what do you do?”
    Tyler Durden: “I make and I sell soap”

  • @oleg4966
    @oleg4966 4 роки тому +595

    Note: when you get concentrated NaOH/KOH on your skin, do NOT wash it just once.
    Wash *until the skin stops feeling slippery*.
    It gets soapy because the base (KOH) reacts with fats secreted by your skin, producing glycerol and some surfactants - soap, essentially.
    And if lye is concentrated enough to hydrolize fat, it's concentrated enough to (at the very least) dry out your skin and exacerbate any skin issues you have.
    If you work with lye AND toxic compounds, keep in mind one little-known toxicology fact: surfactants tend to increase chemical permeability of your skin.
    Which means that anything toxic or mutagenic has a much easier time getting through the protective layer down into your tissues.
    So don't leave any leftover soap or KOH on your skin when working with benzene.
    Not even if you wear gloves.
    Gloves can sometimes have holes, as I've learned the hard way.
    In my case, I was hasty one day when working with some pretty concentrated KOH and benzene.
    I didn't notice my glove had a teeny-tiny hole near the middle finger. I also didn't pay attention to the steadily worsening itching in my finger: I usually had that reaction to gloves.
    I only took off the glove at the end of the lesson - and saw that my skin was both soapy and had that tangy smell of benzene to it.
    Massive, albeit fortunately local, inflammation ensued a couple days later; my fingernail was spoon-shaped for three years after I got that crap to subside, and my usually mild eczema got exacerbated to blood-seeping-from-cracked-flesh levels of unpleasant.
    I'm pretty sure the acute inflammation and the deformed fingernail is just what happens when a finger gets an hour-long meet-and-greet with concentrated KOH, but the eczema was probably made much, much worse by the surfactant-benzene combination.

    • @the_egg_
      @the_egg_ 4 роки тому +20

      Ouch

    • @angelinephilo2005
      @angelinephilo2005 4 роки тому +43

      ouch this seems like something chubbyemu would make a video about

    • @duckduckgo358
      @duckduckgo358 4 роки тому +4

      I knew I was right to think the guy was to relaxed with working with something thats 14ph

    • @davemwangi05
      @davemwangi05 4 роки тому +22

      I've learned to not be a jackass. I made NaOH at home vial the Chloralkali process using a rudimentary paper diaphram, graphite rods etc. Now with my usual behavior of flouting safety rules, I took a tiny drop from the cathode and curiously stretched my long neck and tasted it. RIP guys..!!. I had under estimated how quickly the soln could ramp up at 4 amperes current. Yeah it hurt like hell, I didn't eat well for some two days but I still consider myself as being lucky.
      When I threw an aluminium foil into it, that's when I realized how concentrated my NaOH really was, It got kinda silent a while, I kept it to the side, a few seconds later huge amounts of steam were coming off, it was hissing like a snake with hydrogen bubbles and was hot like hell. I tensed. LOL, That moment where you tend to forget where the kill switch or emergency button is located..
      Oh, the chlorine coming from the Anode, I won't talk much about that. but I intentionally sniffed some of it and now I have a new definition of that monster called Hitler. I wanna strangle his neck.
      Reading stories of chemical accidents online, You know what? there's a common denominator. most of them are unaware of how dangerous what they're handling is, they live to say, "I wish I knew." Or they're aware but they let something called complacency creep in, and that's when the accident happens.

    • @clarag.8877
      @clarag.8877 4 роки тому +1

      thanks a lot for sharing this! It's really important information

  • @ayapamungkas2267
    @ayapamungkas2267 5 років тому +86

    I used to study all of these theories and practice back in college. Now I feel what people say about "learning/studying is fun when there's no one tell you to study"

  • @oliverb.3588
    @oliverb.3588 3 роки тому +306

    Cool to know that you managed to explain how and why soaps work in 5 minutes in my second language and I understood it more than how my teacher explained it

    • @everengaged9370
      @everengaged9370 2 роки тому +6

      you understood it because your teacher explained to it before

    • @TheMarshmallowMushroom
      @TheMarshmallowMushroom Рік тому +2

      ypur english is good for a second language! impressive!

    • @oliverb.3588
      @oliverb.3588 Рік тому +2

      @@TheMarshmallowMushroom thank you, I've been essentially kinda speaking it since I was a kid and am currently studying it in university lol so yeah

    • @TheMarshmallowMushroom
      @TheMarshmallowMushroom Рік тому

      @@oliverb.3588 ohh okay. still cool tho

    • @oliverb.3588
      @oliverb.3588 Рік тому

      @@TheMarshmallowMushroom lol

  • @tiaraguy7705
    @tiaraguy7705 2 роки тому +13

    This is such a cool video. While watching I started to notice how much work he's done to his videos when it comes to editing, how he's changed his speech to be faster and cut out fill words, just surprised how much has changed and how much better he got.

  • @cryzerker8080
    @cryzerker8080 3 роки тому +651

    Just so you know, in Fight Club, Tyler kisses the hand of the narrator before aplying the sodium hydroxide. The watter from the lips interact with the sodium. In the book, his hand is burned in the form of Tyler's lips

    • @rockets4kids
      @rockets4kids 3 роки тому +146

      Congratulations! Now you've just forced Nile to make yet another soap video. Also, I'm surprised there aren't more Fight Club references in the comments.

    • @izzmus
      @izzmus 3 роки тому +27

      In the movie, too.

    • @realleon2328
      @realleon2328 3 роки тому +76

      Fight club is so fucking gay

    • @feedmewithhate
      @feedmewithhate 3 роки тому +15

      @@realleon2328 and your comment is so fucking childish. why are you using gay as if it's a bad thing?

    • @realleon2328
      @realleon2328 3 роки тому +144

      @@feedmewithhate I'm using gay as a neutral/good thing. Fight club has a lot of themes about repressed homosexual desires manifesting as violence. It is a gay text. I meant that literally.

  • @jasminez5185
    @jasminez5185 4 роки тому +2754

    *"A really nice almond flavour that smells like cherry candies"*

  • @elliotk.8964
    @elliotk.8964 4 роки тому +1093

    As a perfumer watching him pour that much bitter almond oil and cinnamon oil into the soap made me want to cry

    • @bluepsiongamer4909
      @bluepsiongamer4909 3 роки тому +57

      Isn't cinnamon oil dangerous? I'd never put that in soap!

    • @Goldflower220
      @Goldflower220 3 роки тому +71

      @@bluepsiongamer4909 yeah, i thought you can't put cinnamon in body products because of skin irritation

    • @daltonwallet8650
      @daltonwallet8650 3 роки тому +35

      knowing nothing about soaps, I'm full blown wide eyed at the volume of additives he's put in to every soap

    • @macky7482
      @macky7482 3 роки тому +15

      "perfumer"
      lol

    • @melissasteidl2958
      @melissasteidl2958 3 роки тому +39

      I'm a soap maker, cinnamon will burn you. The ifra rate is extremely low, watching him use that much just made me cringe

  • @azharulislammathlab7878
    @azharulislammathlab7878 2 роки тому +16

    The poppy seed one is like a polka dot soap and this one is the most beautiful one you made.

  • @Vok250
    @Vok250 3 роки тому +863

    I love how the "essential oils" are actually just random chemicals.

    • @Tonatsi
      @Tonatsi 3 роки тому +191

      That's because that's what they are, essences. They aren't 'essential' in the sense of necessary.

    • @banana-uo3be
      @banana-uo3be 3 роки тому +135

      Technically speaking, every substance is a chemical

    • @hollygarfield123
      @hollygarfield123 3 роки тому +14

      you’re actually not usually supposed to use essential oils in soap, you’re supposed to use fragrance oils

    • @raerohan4241
      @raerohan4241 3 роки тому +64

      @@hollygarfield123 Essential oils _are_ fragrance oils. The only difference is that fragrance oils are synthetic and essential oils are extracts, but otherwise they are the exact same thing. And soapmakers do use essential oils in soap

    • @nicbell8090
      @nicbell8090 3 роки тому +33

      Haha this is a nice clarification. Essential not like necessary, but essential like, it’s essentially just the oil lol

  • @reidleblanc3140
    @reidleblanc3140 4 роки тому +206

    i love how in trying to make relaxing minty soap you ended up making painful burning orange soap. chaotic

  • @screamintothevoid5336
    @screamintothevoid5336 4 роки тому +1235

    This dude: talking about chemistry and showing some formulas
    Me who failed chemistry every year: mmmmake the soampppp soap soap when soap show soap

    • @ChiralSpirals
      @ChiralSpirals 4 роки тому +63

      Me.... that bar soap looks kinda tasty..

    • @ryang142
      @ryang142 4 роки тому +18

      I appreciate you stranger. You made my day.

    •  4 роки тому +19

      You're all dumbasses, congratulations!

    • @damonperkins4644
      @damonperkins4644 4 роки тому +3

      Disappointment

    • @vivecacat3292
      @vivecacat3292 4 роки тому +8

      i laughed way too hard at this

  • @Chyrosran22
    @Chyrosran22 2 роки тому +3

    The salt balance has to be just right, so the best fat for making soap comes from humans.

  • @wirelessnet2747
    @wirelessnet2747 7 років тому +902

    next up: gaseous soap

    • @MrVelcro56
      @MrVelcro56 7 років тому +173

      after that, plasma soap

    • @Volodimir_Druzhkin
      @Volodimir_Druzhkin 7 років тому +160

      MrVelcro56 then bose-einstein condensate soap

    • @MrVelcro56
      @MrVelcro56 7 років тому +87

      then a fermionic condensate soap

    • @daveb5041
      @daveb5041 7 років тому +60

      @Дьявол16 You literally read my mind. Stop stealing my thoughts. We could also have plasma soap or quark gluon soap.

    • @iskrem596
      @iskrem596 7 років тому +41

      I really want to try plasma soap. That'd be a badass way to die. ;D

  • @donaldasayers
    @donaldasayers 7 років тому +197

    Strong alkalis feel soapy as they quickly start making soaps out of the fat in/on your skin. If you get splashed in the lab and it feels soapy wash it off quick,
    Conversely acids give you skin a grip, again wash it off quick.

    • @teslatang4941
      @teslatang4941 7 років тому +27

      Jesus that sounds horrifying

    • @ZivTheWyrd
      @ZivTheWyrd 7 років тому +12

      Tesla Tang imagine wat KOH is loke in your eye. It hurts like Fuuuuuuhk. I still have a minor svar from it and it was only there for... 20 seconds cause I wasn't near to a sink.

    • @seignee
      @seignee 7 років тому +49

      Donald Sayers if anything gets on your skin, especially in a lab, GET IT OFF

    • @zwitter_zwitter
      @zwitter_zwitter 5 років тому

      Yep acids dehydrate

    • @kelleyspartiatis5323
      @kelleyspartiatis5323 5 років тому +13

      You're so right. I'm a soap maker and that feeling on my hands (because I'm an idiot who doesn't wear gloves) is horrible. My hand goes waxy and I can feel the layer of soap forming. Eek!

  • @CryptP
    @CryptP 4 роки тому +488

    When he added that cinnamon oil to the first soap thing I was like "oH nO" bc cinnamon oil is not smth you wanna be rubbing all over your skin omg

    • @vivianevans8543
      @vivianevans8543 3 роки тому +85

      I knooooowwww i want RoyaltySoaps to react to this video lol

    • @CryptP
      @CryptP 3 роки тому +14

      @@vivianevans8543 god same that'd be awesome

    • @Onlythesassiest
      @Onlythesassiest 3 роки тому +49

      Then the menthol too I nearly cried watching that

    • @CryptP
      @CryptP 3 роки тому +30

      @@Onlythesassiest there are soap companies who fill their shit w menthol for that "fresh & tingly" feel but what absolute masochist would put that on their skin honestly

    • @lilyomp4598
      @lilyomp4598 3 роки тому +31

      On one hand I love watching NileRed but on the other my RoyaltySoaps knowledge is killing me ahahaha.

  • @MyNameHere101
    @MyNameHere101 10 днів тому +1

    Minty fresh or skin melting is a very fine line that should be deeply respected

  • @CursedDepartmentEastOffice
    @CursedDepartmentEastOffice 3 роки тому +195

    I like how NileRed never changed to cater to the wider audience his videos get nowadays. The level of detail in this video reminds me of College Applied Chemistry Lab. It's a legitimate Lab session but online. Great video all around.

  • @Coyoteari
    @Coyoteari 4 роки тому +102

    “Don’t get this stuff on your skin. You see how I’m putting it on my skin? Don’t do that!”

  • @OrangeFluffyCat
    @OrangeFluffyCat 7 років тому +215

    You might not want to give away that cinnamon soap, you used too much oil for the size of the soap and cinnamon oil is a skin irritant and a common allergen. Might be fine, maybe test the little cinnamon soaps on yourself first

    • @sarina1234ful
      @sarina1234ful 5 років тому +34

      It's also used in cosmetics like lip plumpers and cellulite creams due to the irritating properties that bring blood to the skin surface. I personally hate the feeling.

    • @MaeLSTRoM1997
      @MaeLSTRoM1997 5 років тому +20

      @@sarina1234ful It frightens me that skin irritation is utilized for aesthetical reasons

    • @darianbarber3763
      @darianbarber3763 5 років тому +7

      @Capt Zack They use to use leeches for various medical procedures, wear Mercury makeup, and wash clothes with urine.

    • @KyrieFortune
      @KyrieFortune 4 роки тому +2

      @@cinnabarite the compound in those berries is what you get before an eyesight test, because it opens the pupil and makes the exam more accurate

    • @throwawayaccount3707
      @throwawayaccount3707 4 роки тому

      @@darianbarber3763 Leeches are still used for medical purposes though?

  • @andrew6464
    @andrew6464 2 роки тому +4

    “The first rule of fight club is don’t talk about fight club”

  • @EMETRL
    @EMETRL 5 років тому +184

    *makes soap from scratch*
    Tyler Durden *wants to know your location*

    • @myrmesuwu607
      @myrmesuwu607 4 роки тому +2

      You could literally make it from salt water and oils if you make the sodium hydroxide so it would literally be from scratch

    • @lifeismeaningless5512
      @lifeismeaningless5512 4 роки тому +1

      I’m here

    • @chimblemasterofchimney4771
      @chimblemasterofchimney4771 4 роки тому +4

      Soap today, explosives tomorrow.

    • @job3rg
      @job3rg 4 роки тому +23

      Sad I had to scroll so far for a fight club joke

    • @realitynowassigned
      @realitynowassigned 4 роки тому +3

      @@job3rg ikr i figured theyd be everywhere

  • @Ghhop
    @Ghhop 4 роки тому +511

    As an experienced soaper, this video both entertained and horrified me lol

    • @elkinmontoya9640
      @elkinmontoya9640 3 роки тому +12

      Please tell us what could be done differently. I'm going to try with some tallow in a few days

    • @benstevens1575
      @benstevens1575 3 роки тому +95

      @@elkinmontoya9640 I think it's mostly just the insane amount of essential oils he used. One uses essential oils in drops, not by outright pouring it like this 😅

    • @donniev8181
      @donniev8181 3 роки тому +8

      Do you know what causes a soap to dry out your skin after getting out of the shower and do you know what kind of commercial soap is best about not doing it?

    • @camelliahyacinth5926
      @camelliahyacinth5926 3 роки тому +14

      @@donniev8181 this is a hard question to answer, you may be sensitive to an ingredient, or you may just have dry skin and need something with more of a moisturizing product. I'd test by taking a few different types of soap and using them on your arm every few days to see what the best ones are for you.

    • @donniev8181
      @donniev8181 3 роки тому +2

      @@camelliahyacinth5926 its pretty much after I get dry and for a few hours afterwards. In just wondering what would be the best commercially sold soap that i could by that doesn't dry your skin? Thank you for responding

  • @Chakravarti2911
    @Chakravarti2911 4 роки тому +24

    19:13 Nearly everyone knows that chemistry is always interesting! Its sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly, sometimes tasty, sometimes stinky, but always amazing.

  • @MorriganQrow
    @MorriganQrow 2 роки тому +15

    Ive watched so many Soapmaking videos over the years, and this video is up there in terms of entertainment and shock factor, and the best part? big science words :)

  • @covodex516
    @covodex516 4 роки тому +421

    Nile: "I made one beaker with menthol, [...]"
    Me: "thats a good idea lad, a little bit will lead to a nice cool sensation..."
    Nile: *pours like half a pint of pure menthol oil*
    Me: *bruh*

  • @DieMorra
    @DieMorra 3 роки тому +96

    This is the video that got me into making soap!
    Now I’m sitting on 5 kg of that stuff.
    Thanks for getting me addicted!

  • @jomalranjo9194
    @jomalranjo9194 4 роки тому +70

    I thought it said "Making Soup" and you converted into a cooking show

    • @amediocreexistence
      @amediocreexistence 3 роки тому +14

      Omg he should do a cooking video where he calls everything by it’s chemical name

  • @yeahnoiknow1312
    @yeahnoiknow1312 Рік тому +4

    6:52 i used to work at a soap factory and would come home with lye burns all up my arms, i even have a scar on my ankle from when a bead landed on my sock and i didn’t notice for awhile. not super dangerous, but definitely would recommend to avoid touching it as much as you can.

  • @ellipsis4868
    @ellipsis4868 5 років тому +310

    If you like soap making, I highly recommend Royalty Soaps!

    • @Keira-_-
      @Keira-_- 4 роки тому +40

      Didn’t Katie also advise against all cinnamon things in soap

    • @tamanduastance
      @tamanduastance 4 роки тому +24

      Keira I was thinking the same thing when he added it. Also she said not to use food coloring.

    • @cinnabonbon
      @cinnabonbon 4 роки тому +6

      Keira yep cinnamon burns from what ive heard

    • @mcope9233
      @mcope9233 4 роки тому +8

      Was waiting for someone to say this, she went on like a 2 minute tangent on why you shouldnt put cinnamon in soap

    • @meg2831
      @meg2831 4 роки тому +3

      She is awesome

  • @WillyTheComposerOfficial
    @WillyTheComposerOfficial 5 років тому +1114

    Bro made a video on how soap is made and didn’t use the word “lye” once.

    • @MrTacoToy
      @MrTacoToy 5 років тому +37

      He did at 1:05

    • @pretzel502
      @pretzel502 5 років тому +126

      Sodium Hydroxide is lye

    • @WillyTheComposerOfficial
      @WillyTheComposerOfficial 5 років тому +93

      That guy Bacon
      Yeah that’s my point. He never used the common name for it

    • @Evelina5089
      @Evelina5089 5 років тому +9

      @@MrTacoToy no he didn't

    • @DarthPoyner
      @DarthPoyner 5 років тому +26

      Big white bottle literally has Lye Crystals on the front. Some people getting weird about different names.

  • @ogficht
    @ogficht 7 років тому +301

    Can you try to extract nicotine from tobacco?

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  7 років тому +145

      +Gablstab they will happen soon-ish

    • @ogficht
      @ogficht 7 років тому +11

      Nice, looking forward to it. Thanks for answering. Your videos really help with rehearsing for my chemistry final on Friday.

    • @zzasdfwas
      @zzasdfwas 7 років тому +13

      I actually did this as a college chem project. I started with cigarettes, and basically did a soxhlet extraction with some alcohol. I don't remember details since it was a long time ago, but I think I ended up with mostly nicotine in alcohol solution.

    • @jimmyganglia5234
      @jimmyganglia5234 6 років тому +14

      Cannabis terpenoids maybe?

    • @Taydrum
      @Taydrum 6 років тому +16

      Still waiting on that episode

  • @sickbale
    @sickbale 2 роки тому +6

    *"where is my mind" started playing in background*

  • @Diabhork
    @Diabhork 5 років тому +370

    NILERED, THIS IS IMPORTANT
    HUGE COMPANIES LIKE DOVE ARE RIPPING OFF YOUR IDEA OF MAKING SOAP
    YOU NEED TO SUE THEM

    • @rinrose4019
      @rinrose4019 5 років тому +57

      Patrick fun fact: dove actually isn’t soap. If you look on their packaging they call it a “beauty bar” and is not made up of lye and oils or glycerin

    • @algonzalez6853
      @algonzalez6853 5 років тому +8

      @@rinrose4019 then how does it clean

    • @rinrose4019
      @rinrose4019 5 років тому +41

      @@algonzalez6853 good question! Most big brand "soaps" are actually harsh detergents with cheap and harmful ingredients that irritate sensitive skin and have allergens. This is why so many people with skin conditions have to find other brands for their skin.

    • @breckr1121
      @breckr1121 4 роки тому +6

      @@rinrose4019 Detergent is another name for soap.

    • @antrax607
      @antrax607 4 роки тому +24

      @@breckr1121 no, detergent contains sulfonate, while soap does not contain it.

  • @The_Unholy_Nerd
    @The_Unholy_Nerd 5 років тому +80

    The first rule of fight club is: Make your own soap.

  • @Elric509
    @Elric509 4 роки тому +177

    He should really revisit this, with the whole personal hygiene thing right now

    • @Elric509
      @Elric509 4 роки тому +5

      The alcohol making too

  • @colbybartz5489
    @colbybartz5489 Рік тому +5

    I learned how to make soap from Tyler durden but this works too

  • @thes1lentgamer70
    @thes1lentgamer70 7 років тому +145

    well i still will watch it again so no problem.

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  7 років тому +84

      haha, the dedication

    • @asagasaga
      @asagasaga 7 років тому +5

      NileRed Your videos are always really simple to understand, so i'm wondering if you could explain me how to get linoxyn from linseed oil... I know it was used to make linoleum, but the version i'm looking for needs to be soluble in alcohol and really oxidized. Any guess?

  • @maggiemiller1007
    @maggiemiller1007 5 років тому +20

    Dude your voice is so nice and exactly what I think belongs narrating how to chemically make soap

  • @Rohanology27
    @Rohanology27 7 років тому +66

    "Salted fatty acid" sounds like fast food...

  • @llittlejustin8
    @llittlejustin8 3 місяці тому +4

    Crazy enough someone at the air port had same suit case as me and wanted to sell me soup 😂

  • @haydenmann1269
    @haydenmann1269 4 роки тому +63

    The begging of NileRed's videos have the same energy as the beginning of a segment on How It's Made

  • @ZivTheWyrd
    @ZivTheWyrd 7 років тому +56

    Since it's a reupload, I'll say it again. It was calcium oxide in fight club, not sodium hydroxide. He kisses the back of his hand and the calcium oxide boils the moisture when it becomes calcium hydroxide, leaving a scar c:

    • @petev123456789
      @petev123456789 5 років тому +8

      Had to scroll through comments until my faith in fight club was restored. Thank you friend, everything will be all right.

    • @Burak-ls5yd
      @Burak-ls5yd 5 років тому +2

      I think in Fight Club they were talking about making soaps with that chemical in that scene and they used the chemical on the hand then. You cannot make soap with that chemical. And I was sure about Sodium Hydroxide somehow. I have to check again.

  • @emeshe7826
    @emeshe7826 3 роки тому +102

    Other soap "making" videos: just buy soap flakes, melt them and shape them into blocks.
    Nile: fully detailed explanation of the chemical reactions.

    • @gwendolynrobinson3900
      @gwendolynrobinson3900 2 роки тому +12

      The soap flakes that you melt is a type of soap called "melt and pour" soap. It's very easy for beginner soapmakers mostly working on the creativity aspect of designing soaps and not creating their own recipe to make soap from scratch. There are many other soap youtubers that do make their soaps from scratch, that mix oils with lye water solutions and add fragrance and colorants and do take the time to explain in layman's terms. My favorite is a channel called Royalty Soaps.

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 9 місяців тому

      @@gwendolynrobinson3900 If I recall right, doesn't Safiya make her own soap from scratch? I remember her talking about how dangerous lye is.

  • @astrolamp.
    @astrolamp. 11 місяців тому +3

    I did a soap lab in Grade 12 as apart of our organic chemistry unit. It's great to understand everything.

  • @estherguo452
    @estherguo452 5 років тому +101

    Honestly, if my chemistry class in school did more things like this, I'd enjoy it infinitely times more...
    sUcKs ThAt My ScHoOl DoEsN't FuNd ScIeNcE

    • @SpeedDemonStar
      @SpeedDemonStar 4 роки тому +15

      The school I went to did have the money and resources to do this in chemistry class, and I think the previous year's students did get to do it.... unfortunately there were too many druggies and idiots in my class so we only got to do fairly tame stuff.... even then some idiot still managed to set his lanyard on fire with a Bunsen burner.
      He had seen where fire is used to attach the ends when making paracord bracelets, so he decided it'd be a good idea to try it on his lanyard to fix a small rip.... while he was still wearing it around his neck. Needless to say, it didn't fix the lanyard, but instead lit the edges of said rip on fire and caused it to drip melted plastic stuff on the counter. He then panicked, grabbed the part of the lanyard that was still burning and dripping, with his bare hand of course, and ran it under the faucet right next to us. Lucky for him, it actually did work. It put the fire out. He got a blister or two on his hand from the experience, but they were small enough he was able to hide it from the teacher, and he had already run it under cool water in the process of extinguishing his lanyard, so he kinda treated it. Apparently he kept it hidden until he got home and his mom took him to the hospital and that hand was wrapped up in bandages for awhile.
      He admitted to us later that the reason he didn't want the teacher/staff to know is because he had weed on him and was afraid they'd take it from him at the hospital, so he wanted to drop it off at home first. I'm pretty sure he was also high on it at the time, which I think was the real reason because when you got close enough to him, you could smell it, but you did have to be right next to him, like you are forced to be at the lab at school.
      This was the most memorable/dangerous thing I saw in that class, but it was far from being the only thing that he and the other idiot classmates did in that class/school that did or could have gotten themselves injured. If I remember right, I think he was the same one who broke his hand & ankle and gave himself concussion by skiing off the roof of his 2 story house into less than 2ft of snow, hitting a tree on the way down.
      I know he's the same one who tried to choke out his best friend in the classroom. Here's the details of that one, plastered in my memory forever:
      During the 5 minutes between classes he was apparently not intending any harm, but came up behind his best friend and put him in a super tight choke hold, while the teacher was out of the room doing hall duty. None of us in the room could do anything because we were all frozen in shock. His friend was literally turning blue, gripping at the dude's arm trying to get free, and hitting his hands on his desk trying to get attention, but we were all just frozen and couldn't move. I tried, but it's the weirdest sensation of being so surprised/startled by something that you literally can't move or even look away. When the bell rang for the beginning of class, he let go and went to his seat. His friend/victim was just starting to get his breath back when the teacher came in and saw that the class was still and silent, which was absolutely the opposite as the teacher usually had to spend the first 10 minutes getting everyone to sit down and stop talking. So, when she walked in and saw her usually rambunctious/obnoxious class looking stunned and being silent, while another student is still holding his throat and just starting to breath normally again, she looked the most terrified I ever saw a teacher in my whole life and asked what had just happened and if he was okay. We all continued sitting still and silent until the choked kid got the air to get the message across to the teacher what had just happened, so the teacher sent him to the nurse with myself (because I was the only student with a key to the elevator and we didn't think he was in any condition to go down the stairs), and another student to help support him and sent the other kid straight to the office and called the office to have the security guard escort him there. We dropped off the one kid with the nurse (by then he was breathing fine but still not completely stable on his feet yet) and we went back to class. I'm not sure what happened or what the teacher said while we were out of the room, but she looked as flustered and shocked as the class when we returned and we didn't have to do any assignments that day(made up the work the next day and as homework), while the teacher did stuff on her computer (probably filling out the paperwork), and even then, the class stayed silent and some were just staring off into nothingness. I'm pretty sure that incident gave some of the class some newly onset PTSD to some extent (I'd already had PTSD for a few years, but that incident definitely didn't help my concentration the rest of the day.) The kid who caused this trauma was suspended from school until he could get a psych eval and get some meds or something figured out, which was about 2 weeks or so. Idk if he was telling the truth or not, but he claims that they put him in a locked psychiatric facility during that time, which honestly, with how badly impulsive and unpredictable he was at that point, I wouldn't doubt, particularly since he already had a probation officer.

    • @dalfifran7572
      @dalfifran7572 4 роки тому +6

      @@SpeedDemonStar
      Holy moly. That was a lengthy wall of text.
      I didn't expect it to be so amusing and great story though. Great post

    • @SpeedDemonStar
      @SpeedDemonStar 4 роки тому +5

      @@dalfifran7572 Yeah, sorry about the length, but I didn't want to leave out any of the amusing details of his remarkable stupidity.

    • @silkyfirst3097
      @silkyfirst3097 4 роки тому

      @@SpeedDemonStar while ill agree i can somewhat relate to this i think getting ptsd from somthing like that is a bit over the top

    • @kaustubhi5910
      @kaustubhi5910 4 роки тому

      Hey we made soap base at school for chemistry class....

  • @fionnmcbride3424
    @fionnmcbride3424 7 років тому +45

    Thanks for correcting your mistake. It's important that misinformation isn't being spread. It's too bad that you had to reupload but I'm glad you did

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  7 років тому +16

      I wish youtube had some sort of in house editing that let me just trim. I wouldve just cut out like 2 words. Oh well

  • @spitfire7772
    @spitfire7772 4 роки тому +71

    Coronavirus: *exist*
    Soap: *kills coronavirus*
    NileRed: *_STONKS_*

  • @flarifier5594
    @flarifier5594 Рік тому +5

    the first rule of soap club is u gotta uhhhh soap

  • @DasGrinch
    @DasGrinch 6 років тому +191

    Oh god, all that menthol. That's enough for like, 10 bars of soap. Used a little too much indeed >_>

    • @Degrizai
      @Degrizai 4 роки тому +5

      cs11.pikabu.ru/post_img/2020/04/05/11/1586113799136023688.jpg

    • @therobot1080
      @therobot1080 4 роки тому

      TEN
      THE FREAKING AMOUNT OF NIPPLES I HAVE AFTER VISITING CHERNOBYL?
      B R U H

  • @adrianlew7086
    @adrianlew7086 3 роки тому +22

    From 18:21 onwards, the forbidden snacks energy is strong

  • @cr1ppleman230
    @cr1ppleman230 3 роки тому +138

    "The best fat for making soap, comes from humans."
    -Tyler Durden, Fight club

  • @Duchess1223
    @Duchess1223 3 роки тому +96

    Other soap makers on UA-cam: "Please don't add cinnamon oil! It'll burn your skin!"
    Nile: *dumps in cinnamon oil*
    Also, the changing of color in the menthol one probably has to do with a reaction between the menthol and the dye. The additives can totally interact with each other. Professional soap makers even keep that in mind when creating their soaps

  • @trebelojaques458
    @trebelojaques458 3 роки тому +25

    1:25 "when they are reacted with a strong base, they undergo a saponification reaction"
    Ah, the sheer *highschool nostalgia*

  • @Nekufan1000000
    @Nekufan1000000 4 роки тому +83

    "It could make you blind."
    Imagine, IMAGINE, being 70 years old and someone being like, "Granddad, how did you go blind?" And instead of a story of heroism or fear, you say, "Well, I was 18 and working in the SOAP FACTORY. Some idiot splashed me with some of the mix and I went blind."

    • @labgrownhumanbrain
      @labgrownhumanbrain Рік тому +4

      story of the horrors of capitalism and the times before safety regulations

    • @squishyghost1234
      @squishyghost1234 Рік тому

      NaOH and KOH can be as corrosive as acids. If someone throw bases at your face, they should be imprisoned. It is similar to an acid attack.

  • @pathagas
    @pathagas 7 років тому +146

    Sucks that you had to re-upload. Good on you for fixing the problem though.

    • @NileRed
      @NileRed  7 років тому +48

      I appreciate your understanding. It was really bothering me. Little typos are okay, but I can let blatant mis-information just sit there

    • @dustinstone5188
      @dustinstone5188 7 років тому +7

      NileRed lol saying little typos are ok then making a little typo. still love you tho...no homo...maybe a little lol jk

  • @7mdtk
    @7mdtk 2 роки тому +4

    My grandpa used to make lots of soaps! They were really good, and they had lots of pastel colours.

  • @buhbo3250
    @buhbo3250 4 роки тому +75

    imagine a soap maker reacts to this vid and just makes fun of you for 20 minutes straight

  • @bluesquare23
    @bluesquare23 5 років тому +38

    My mother used to make soap when I was a kid and this reminds me of her.

  • @munk6576
    @munk6576 5 років тому +39

    3:03 "when it comes to liquid soap it can be surprisingly complicated" Missed such a great opportunity to say "soap-risingly"

  • @kstan5112
    @kstan5112 2 роки тому +8

    Ugh.🎀💖💖 I have been out of school for a substantial and unfortunate amount of time. But watching this video I cant tell you how amazing and reassuring it feels to be able to call out lessons and words I remember before you mentioning them, like sapponification, ester bonds, triglyceride tails etc.., it feels so amazing and I love watching your videos because your blend of down to earth understanding and comprehensibility, mixed with simple-to-learn new advanced topics is the perfect combo and just makes me feel so happy. Love your content so much!!!

    • @-Dragon-Master-
      @-Dragon-Master- Рік тому

      In my class where we dissected a frog my teacher also taught us how to make moonshine

  • @SheepyBoiiInc
    @SheepyBoiiInc 4 роки тому +23

    Its 2 am and I got here after watching royalty soap's newest update. 😂 the vibe of soapmaking is so different when its a chemist instead of a soap artisan. Would never diss the Duchess of Suds but I really like this guy's tempo

  • @garborayne6296
    @garborayne6296 3 роки тому +20

    "What's the difference between liquid soap and soap?"
    *They all taste the same, just different texture*

  • @misscursed8465
    @misscursed8465 5 років тому +35

    "I didn't even wash my hand"
    Sounds like how chemical sweetener was discovered lol

  • @octospuds9737
    @octospuds9737 7 місяців тому +1

    How does this guy make school chemistry fun 🤯

  • @noidle22
    @noidle22 5 років тому +114

    "The major ingredient in ashes was....... B A S S"
    Davie504 intensifies

  • @claytonbenignus4688
    @claytonbenignus4688 6 років тому +61

    I once developed a Soap Recipe designed for Men who work hard which contained Cherry Pit Oil, Safflower Oil, Lanolin, Silk Protein, Aloe, Dead Sea Salt, Goats Milk, Jojoba Oil, Cocoa Butter, Kokum Butter, etc. I figured that after a hot dirty sweaty day of work that a bath-nap, a lice long soak to heal the skin, would be welcomed, and designed my bar accordingly.
    I had several Men test it for me. In every single case, their Girl Friends took it away from them and used it themselves.

  • @somepeoplearewild
    @somepeoplearewild 4 роки тому +31

    I pray for the person who uses cinnamon soap

  • @Lukas-lw4eg
    @Lukas-lw4eg Рік тому +1

    We need the greatest soap maker of history, Tyler Durden to verify this video.