A few tips: The initial lye soap was soft because you used olive oil only. Castile (100% olive oil) soap is notorious for being soft for months. Also, please use a lye calculator such as Soapcalc if you want to try this at home. That will ensure that your soap isn't lye heavy.
rdizzy1 I mean he could have titrated with a known concentration, and found a rough estimate of the concentration. But like. That’s an added day or two to the production time lol
As a home soap maker, I was cringing so hard at some parts of this video. Never use a freshly made soap without first testing it with litmus paper. A lye heavy soap doesn't just cause chemical burns, it actively eats into your flesh trying to saponify the oils/fats of your body into soap.
also , gloves are useless if you don't cover your forearm with your sleeves , worse : the chemical could go under the glove and damage very badely your hands because of the prolongated contact
Goudje Swimmy Eh, not really. Eye protection only really works if there is a seal between the goggles and your skin, because getting splashed in the face will get some stuff behind the glasses. Plus, he was mixing NaOH with an immersion blender in the open air, so there was a pretty high chance of splashing.
yes that's quite true but he never said to people to wear glass wich is extremly dangerous for people who don't were glass and know little about chemistry safety
You know what I love the most about your videos? That you guys learn along with us. I've been watching you pretty much from the beginning and it is awesome to see you slowly become masters of physics and chemistry :D
Except how they totally ignore the key principals of science and chemistry by not following the scientific process at all! No blind/ double blind testing, no chemical hypothesis... this is why Trump won: because retards are easily impressed and have no ability whatsoever to fact check, compare results, or follow the scientific process.
Great video. Soapmaking is a lot of experimenting, and you've scratched the surface of it. And making all of these from scratch is great. The fact that some of your soaps were too alkaline underlines the importance of the concept of superfat. "Superfat" is a notion in soapmaking pertaining to using an excess of oil compared to the amount of lye used - to make sure that all of the lye is neutralized in the final product. Typical superfat numbers used are of the order of 5-10%. I realize that making your lye from scratch makes it difficult to know exactly how much lye you have. But based on your experiments you should be able to estimate, for your given lye solution, how much more fat you should add to avoid having unreacted lye.
YA BOi Aaron I"m not an expert by any means. I happen to have studied chemistry, and made soap a few times in the past for fun. I approach my hobbies like they are science projects (which they usually are) and study them accordingly. Makes everything more fun.
Jake D. Polar dissolves polar, unpolar dissolves unpolar. Fat dissolves fat, water dissolves water. Edit: it is a principle of chemistry. You would need to understand what polar and unpolar is to understand the saying.
I'm a hobbiest soap maker. This was fun to watch. And fun to laugh at. And I'm surprised you didn't do more ph tests. I woulda tested the shit out of that before trying it. Ha ha!
Rachel Hall should mention the infamous "zap test" Essentially it means tasting the soap with the tip of your tongue. If it just tastes like soap it's probably safe to use. If you feel on your tongue a "zap" like the one you get from touching your tongue to the terminals of a 9V battery that means there's still free NaOH and the soap shouldn't be used. It can be dangerous to do the test as you may get chemical burns on your tongue (when you do it you should have a large amount of water available to rinse your mouth immediately).
This whole Idea is one of the best on the internet, I think it opens your eyes to so many things and makes you value what we have and the people behind all of that. Thanks!!!
I use to make soap with used cooking oil every summer, I strongly recomend it to everyone, that soap has way more cleaning power than any commercial one I have ever used, plus you reduce polution.
Because the beeswax had a much higher melting point than the other fats, it was holding enough thermal energy to boil the water when the base was added. As the water boiled it expanded to steam causing the hot mess. Same reason you never try to put out a grease fire with water; it flashes to steam and just increases the surface area of the grease to burn more aggressively.
I make soap quite often in one of my classes in high school and it’s made with goats milk and lye. It’s really nourishing for the skin especially if multiple different types of oils are used and not just one or two types. I did learn all the different types of things that soap could be made out of though, which was something pretty awesome.
4:25 one little correction, hydrocarbon chain is not linked to glycerol backbone with ether (R-O-R) bond, its linked with ester bond (R-COO-R). When the molecule splits, you get glycerol and coresponding salt of fatty acid or carboxylic acid (R-COO- M+), not alkoxide (R-O- M+). R represents alkyl chain and M+ represents any metal ion. Anyways really cool video and i absolutely love your channel and content you make! :)
That is definitely a unique hobby. What got you started? I read in a book, one specifically marketed for bathroom reading made up of a bunch of short articles, a guy describing his collection of toilet paper. Some packaged, some not, some snatched from public bathrooms all over the world, train bathrooms, ect. It's fascinating af.
Dee Jolly I was once in a hotel in Turkey,and it was 5 stars so they had a cleaning lady refill the soap bars everyday. And i realised how perfect a bar of soap was so i took one and just... Touched it mostly. So i kept taking the soap and everyday the lady was confused cause all the soap kept running out, But i was secretly bagging all of the them. So now I get soaps from my mother that crashes in places cause she parties and stuff. So she's one reliable source of satisfying my soapy needs. And now i have this weird sidebag with 10 pockets which fit all my soaps,packaged hairnets,mini Vaselines,Mini bottles of soaps. And now it's like an army pack of soaps. Yup. Any hobbies you have?
Nothing in Particular Dude that's so cool. Defo try collect bars of soap,it's too damn satisfying. I use to *Still do, mix a bunch of random soaps and add weird things like Vaseline and clay gel,and make it all in a pot then try cleaning things with it to see if its actually good.
Was watching Modern History TV. His description of 'gray soap' in medieval England looked alot like your molded soaps. Congratulations on awesome science and history teachings.
Foaming agents are added in to modern soap. Old fashioned soap won’t lather at all. Also, if your soap is thin, add some salt to it to thicken it before mixing it up.
I've been making soap for years. I typically leave mine in the mold for 3 days before removing and cutting it into bars. Then I lets the bars open air cure for 3 weeks before using them. If they don't lather very well after 3 weeks, they need more time to cure.
If you put apple vinegar on lime stone, it will fizzle as well. Also you can get the element you want from burning sea shells then letting the Calcium desolve in water, strain, and voila.
Connor Reardon making copper wire for a motor would be very difficult, not to mention steel with adequate magnetic properties (you want a metal with soft magnetism, not hard) Surprisingly enough it's not hard to make a LED from natural materials. Though for using the "from scratch" concept it would involve a trip abroad to source natural silicon carbide aka moissanite. There is reportedly natural moissanite in Wyoming but it's very rare and hard to find.
Soap isn't supposed to be that sudsy. Bubbling agents are added to modern soaps to convince the hu an brain that they're working by doing something visible
Natural soaps with no additives lather as well, that is where it originally came from. Modern soap may lather more, but almost all natural soaps lather as well.
@@rdizzy1 depends on the fats used. Theirs a big difference between lather and bubbles. Many fats form a thick lather or very little lather. Not as many fats get the full on bubbles that most think of when they think modern soap
Bubbles or lather, the function is the same, grease and dirt are trapped in the long chain of fatty acid with polar and non-polar ends on either side, thus capturing those molecules and allowing them to wash away freely when rinsed. There isnt a "supposed to be" as far as how much suds, bubbles, or lather are there. As long as they are there in amounts that can cover the surface being cleaned, then the function performs.
After the soap gardens, you have to take it out and let it sit for some weeks. preferable on a wire rack where they can get air on the bottom too, and placed them on the thin side too. As for the lye, vinegar neutralizes it. Always ALWAYS have vinegar ready when dealing with lye.
What? I"m just saying I have no clue, but if I did, I would have figured out how people like them become popular, so I could make millions of dollars with that information.
African black soap is actually a really easy natural soap to make and has been around for thousands of years. I'm surprised you didn't make it in this video. It's made using plantain and/or cocoa ash and Shea butter/ coconut oil.
Now all you need to do is pick your favorite oils, mix them to get the characteristics you love and design your favorite formula. Welcome to my world, LOL. Hope you enjoyed your journey into soap making! It was very fun and entertaining to watch you in your soapy workstation. ALWAYS test your soap for pH. I was glad to see you didn't attempt the age old technique of the 'zap test' for your soap. Since I'm investigating African Black soap techniques I was very interested in how you used the ash. Nice job!
@macnchessplz Potash from Africa comes from whatever local plants are most bountiful in different parts of Africa. In Ghana and West Africa plantain and cocoa pod potash is common. In other parts of Africa other potassium rich plants are used such as bamboo. In North America potash is found in the earth in rich deposits found mainly in Canada and Montana. Potash is essentially potassium carbonate. 1:34
I like how he used multiple methods with a wide variety of bases, wether the alkaline portion or the fats portion I appreciate that you had such a wide variety of things.
No suds does not mean not clean! The lathering is from additives in commercial soap. Even without bubbles, soap will clean. Probably wanna avoid the sticky slimy stuff though.
Commercial soap has a lathering agent added. Real soap doesn't really lather much. If you use a Soap Stone (just an oval stone that fits in your palm easily) you scrub your hands around that while you use your soap as if it were the bar of soap itself and it gets you cleaner than if you don't use one. Plus you don't have to pay to add a lathering agent. Hope this helps someone! 💜
Theoretically the reaction is the same. The beeswax was very hot to make it liquid so it reacted a lot faster, as well as the alkaline hydrolysis reaction being exothermic and making it even hotter. It's probably also a lot more viscous allowing the foam to form.
My guess is Because of the water content of the alcaline solution, hot wax and water is a dangerous mix, he was actually lucky it wasnt worse, as far as i know from the soap i made you cannot make soap with beeswax only as your fat, as it is not really a fat, i usually just add a little to the base oil i happen to be using, but using bwax only i wouldnt even try.
It was the sugar in the beeswax. You'll notice that the other two "fats" (I honestly don't consider milk a fat but a liquid when it comes to soap making) with high sugar contents were out in a water bath before the lye was added. Not only was the beeswax super heated to melt it in order to mix the lye in, but it was also still on the heat, and the sugar increases the exothermic reaction that is caused by the saponification process. Even in appropriate amounts (you'd never make a 100% beeswax soap) a soap maker can experience volcanoeing once the soap batter has been molded. Many soap makers will actually put soaps in the fridge or freezer after molding if they have high sugar contents to help avoid this from happening
Any fat and ash. In fact, medieval people without access to soap would use ash on its own. The ash would combine with the grease and fat on their skin, creating impromptu soap that could then be washed off. This was a little dangerous though, as ash is alkaline and it could easily result in an alkaline burn.
A small point about the soap tests: Whether or not your soap makes suds doesn't actually mean much when you're trying to evaluate its actual effectiveness. That thick, bubbly lather you get out of most soaps, shampoos, and other cleaning products comes from ingredients added _after_ the soap is made. You see, humans tend to get nervous when they put something to work and they can't see it working; even if your more rational mind says "Of _course_ you can't see the oils and grease fall off your hands", the more primitive part of your brain still just associates stillness and silence with a lack of action. This is why people put hydrogen peroxide on cuts; this is why computer software (down to the operating system) always include an hourglass or a ball or some kind of spinning, moving _something_ to let you know it's thinking; and this is why modern soaps foam. None of that stuff actually _does_ anything _itself,_ it's just a reassurance that _yes,_ the product _is_ working as intended and work _is_ being done. The funny thing is, computer and soap manufacturers and such could probably save time and money (and a tiny bit of processing power, for computers) by cutting these things out, but we've been using these things to reassure our confidence for so long that many people if not _most_ aren't actually aware that they're not important, so we'd probably slam any company that tried. Just imagine a computer that didn't have some kind of "I'm thinking" indicator, or go back and watch the interns again.
So this is why we get a dial tone or a busy signal? Tinder and E-Harmony could use this process with a message for us studs who are still waiting for our inbox: "You're not just on hold Son, Keep em cumming! Anytime now!"
You should've used a lye calculator to avoid your soap from being too caustic. Different oils have varying levels of fat and the amount of lye you use should adjust to that. Also, cold process soaps require 4-6 weeks to cure for the lye to completely disappear 🙂
The honey in the beeswax made it volcano. Sugar excellerates! In your defense you handled it a lot better than I would have! Love the videos, and the scientific approach!
I actually did research on the history of soap and the chemistry of saponification behind it. It was really cool to see that in a video and see a practical application of chemistry in real life.
a difference between hot and cold process soap (using lye) is cold process you have to wait weeks around 4 to use the soap because of the lye whereas hot process the lye is basically cooked out and is safe to use immediately after making
great job as always mate been with your channel since before 1000subs glad to see it growing really well content has always been great and only getting better so thank you for teaching me how to make everything :)
im about to try my very first batch of homemade soap. i feel like mine is gonna turn out like most of these 🤣 but hey, it really does seem easy. ive gotten all the stuff now that i need to do it. just takin that step and actually tryin is all thats left!! 🍀
Your channel is ABSOLUTELY amazing because of the amt of effort you put in to everything you do for your vids is astounding i LOVE your channel, also if you want to can you try to make liquid soap next just wondering
Nice. There's a reason why coconut oil and palm oil are high on the list of any soap making recipe - both incredible lather and good bar hardness. You won't believe how bubbly is a 100% coconut oil soap, my favorite. I second the comment about SoapCalc, it's a great tool which takes care of all the math.
My grandma, who was a teen during the Great Depression, would make her own soap using lard and lye. She would scent it using mint or rose water she also made herself. I remember using it when I was a kid. It didn’t smell much of anything, and didn’t lather very much, but it did the job.
She also didn’t take showers or bathes much. Instead, she washed herself from a basin using a wash cloth and her home made soap and rinsed with a pitcher of well water. This is also how she would bathe us before church when I was a little child. To me, this didn’t seem odd till I got much older. But my mom later told me that she did this to conserve water since her water source was from a well. My grandma never smelled bad. As a matter of fact, thinking back, she always had a unique smell of old sewing machine oil and rose water. That may not sound pleasant, but it was honestly very earthy.
Top Tip: if you can find horse chesnut trees, both the leaves and the conkers contain naturally occurring saponins - you can literally scrunch up a couple of leaves in your hands, add water and get a soapy lather to wash your hands with :)
Actually, the ashes of seaweed and of plants that grow in salt marshes ("barilla" or "saltwort") are best for making soap, because they provide Sodium carbonate (which produces a hard soap), instead of Potassium carbonate (which produces a soft soap). Also, the best soap was made from olive oil (rather than animal fat).
This was a really enjoyable episode! I also felt that it had more humor in it than previous ones, which I enjoyed. :) I also enjoyed the comments of the Intern team.
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Oooooooo could you make Wazo nuddles from scratch
But how do I make a razor from scratch?
make a knife from scratch
Dude if you need walnuts for anything, my dad has a grove of black walnuts, I live in Monticello so you're probably not too far away anyways.
A few tips: The initial lye soap was soft because you used olive oil only. Castile (100% olive oil) soap is notorious for being soft for months. Also, please use a lye calculator such as Soapcalc if you want to try this at home. That will ensure that your soap isn't lye heavy.
Those calculators wouldn't really work for him either because it is homemade lye, no way for him to test the purity of the chemical.
rdizzy1 I mean he could have titrated with a known concentration, and found a rough estimate of the concentration. But like. That’s an added day or two to the production time lol
Also Potasium based soaps are also known as liquid sopas so only sodium based are good there.
As a home soap maker, I was cringing so hard at some parts of this video. Never use a freshly made soap without first testing it with litmus paper. A lye heavy soap doesn't just cause chemical burns, it actively eats into your flesh trying to saponify the oils/fats of your body into soap.
that is a hilariously horrifying description
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Ahhh a little frsh soap never hurt any.....oh GOOODDDDDD IT BURNSSSS
the lmost important are not the gloves but eye protection : you can recover from a skin chemical brun but not your eyes
Yeah. Imagine the chemical burn from Fight Club, but on your eyes. Ouch.
also , gloves are useless if you don't cover your forearm with your sleeves , worse : the chemical could go under the glove and damage very badely your hands because of the prolongated contact
He's wearing glasses already so his eyes are quite protected
Goudje Swimmy Eh, not really. Eye protection only really works if there is a seal between the goggles and your skin, because getting splashed in the face will get some stuff behind the glasses. Plus, he was mixing NaOH with an immersion blender in the open air, so there was a pretty high chance of splashing.
yes that's quite true but he never said to people to wear glass wich is extremly dangerous for people who don't were glass and know little about chemistry safety
Well done dude I'm impressed you managed to make a mess with something intended to clean stuff ;) this is the quality content i subed for
I mean. Technically you never really clean anything. You’re just making something else dirty.
Andy your the reason why i started learning chemistry and cooking. Inspiring young scientists, thank u.
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You know what I love the most about your videos? That you guys learn along with us. I've been watching you pretty much from the beginning and it is awesome to see you slowly become masters of physics and chemistry :D
Except how they totally ignore the key principals of science and chemistry by not following the scientific process at all! No blind/ double blind testing, no chemical hypothesis... this is why Trump won: because retards are easily impressed and have no ability whatsoever to fact check, compare results, or follow the scientific process.
Learning that occurred in less than 180k views... -180,000%
Erik Voorhies Dude chiiiiiilllll, the man is just making a frreakin bar of soap.
Also, you come off as a person who's learned all the "scientific buzzwords" but I wouldn't be surprised if you know jack shit about actual chemistry.
Great video. Soapmaking is a lot of experimenting, and you've scratched the surface of it. And making all of these from scratch is great.
The fact that some of your soaps were too alkaline underlines the importance of the concept of superfat. "Superfat" is a notion in soapmaking pertaining to using an excess of oil compared to the amount of lye used - to make sure that all of the lye is neutralized in the final product. Typical superfat numbers used are of the order of 5-10%.
I realize that making your lye from scratch makes it difficult to know exactly how much lye you have. But based on your experiments you should be able to estimate, for your given lye solution, how much more fat you should add to avoid having unreacted lye.
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stamasd ohhhhhhhhhhhh okay I was confused
Whoa this a soap making expert over here
YA BOi Aaron I"m not an expert by any means. I happen to have studied chemistry, and made soap a few times in the past for fun. I approach my hobbies like they are science projects (which they usually are) and study them accordingly. Makes everything more fun.
Tip on the quicklime: Shells! Oyster are an American favorite for making quicklime. But most mollusc shells will do the trick.
Soap is made of the stuff it's supposed to remove. Ironic.
It´s not really ironic. In Chemistry there is a saying that goes as follows: Like dissolves like. or: similar dissolves similar.
Magge y can you elaborate on the saying i dont necessarily understand it
Jake D. Polar dissolves polar, unpolar dissolves unpolar. Fat dissolves fat, water dissolves water.
Edit: it is a principle of chemistry. You would need to understand what polar and unpolar is to understand the saying.
Rajan It’s how most antibiotics and medication is made, and how they find the cures to illnesses
Jake D. Think of a vaccine. A vaccine carries the disease in it in order to prevent it/destroy it.
If you want to see a lady manufacture coldpress soap into beautiful bars for a living, Royalty Soaps is a great channel to see.
Yes!! I actually got to this video from her most recent video lol! It showed this in my suggestions!
I'm a hobbiest soap maker. This was fun to watch. And fun to laugh at. And I'm surprised you didn't do more ph tests. I woulda tested the shit out of that before trying it. Ha ha!
Rachel Hall should mention the infamous "zap test" Essentially it means tasting the soap with the tip of your tongue. If it just tastes like soap it's probably safe to use. If you feel on your tongue a "zap" like the one you get from touching your tongue to the terminals of a 9V battery that means there's still free NaOH and the soap shouldn't be used. It can be dangerous to do the test as you may get chemical burns on your tongue (when you do it you should have a large amount of water available to rinse your mouth immediately).
@@stamasd8500 or at the end of soap production add vinegar, this was the traditional receipt
This whole Idea is one of the best on the internet, I think it opens your eyes to so many things and makes you value what we have and the people behind all of that. Thanks!!!
I use to make soap with used cooking oil every summer, I strongly recomend it to everyone, that soap has way more cleaning power than any commercial one I have ever used, plus you reduce polution.
Thank you for not being afraid to get messy and then not hiding it from us. Thanks for being real.
Potash is mined in Saskatchewan, a Canadian province. You could try and get some from there.
If I'm not mistaken, there is one country (yes, country) in the world that mines more potash than Saskatchewan. Unless that was uranium...
Because the beeswax had a much higher melting point than the other fats, it was holding enough thermal energy to boil the water when the base was added. As the water boiled it expanded to steam causing the hot mess. Same reason you never try to put out a grease fire with water; it flashes to steam and just increases the surface area of the grease to burn more aggressively.
Finally. Soap. Now you can wash the suit you've made. Very educating and fantastic video! Bravo!
I love your channel. Wow. This is the first video I've seen from HTME and I'm loving your spirit and thirst for living skills.
I always like making soap from wood ash, coarse sand, and walnut oils.
I make soap quite often in one of my classes in high school and it’s made with goats milk and lye. It’s really nourishing for the skin especially if multiple different types of oils are used and not just one or two types.
I did learn all the different types of things that soap could be made out of though, which was something pretty awesome.
Human fat makes the best soap
freakshow 762 and human hair makes moist bread. In China they use human hair to help create the soft texture.
I am quite afraid to ask how you found that out
from fight club
Nicholas Wilkowski not in china but every damn country
And it's not actual hair in it
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jasiel delgado not every country, its the proteins in your hair. US FDA does not permit it
This channel is sooo underrated. It should have at least 10x the followers it has.
We learned of making soap in chemistry in my Biotechnology studies
I can't wait to try it myself
You're living my dream, man! I have long wanted to go out and make everything from scratch! I admire you.
4:25 one little correction, hydrocarbon chain is not linked to glycerol backbone with ether (R-O-R) bond, its linked with ester bond (R-COO-R). When the molecule splits, you get glycerol and coresponding salt of fatty acid or carboxylic acid (R-COO- M+), not alkoxide (R-O- M+). R represents alkyl chain and M+ represents any metal ion. Anyways really cool video and i absolutely love your channel and content you make! :)
Wow this was so in depth! I had no idea soap was such a complicated chemical process. Great video!
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That is definitely a unique hobby. What got you started? I read in a book, one specifically marketed for bathroom reading made up of a bunch of short articles, a guy describing his collection of toilet paper. Some packaged, some not, some snatched from public bathrooms all over the world, train bathrooms, ect. It's fascinating af.
Dee Jolly I was once in a hotel in Turkey,and it was 5 stars so they had a cleaning lady refill the soap bars everyday. And i realised how perfect a bar of soap was so i took one and just... Touched it mostly.
So i kept taking the soap and everyday the lady was confused cause all the soap kept running out, But i was secretly bagging all of the them.
So now I get soaps from my mother that crashes in places cause she parties and stuff.
So she's one reliable source of satisfying my soapy needs.
And now i have this weird sidebag with 10 pockets which fit all my soaps,packaged hairnets,mini Vaselines,Mini bottles of soaps.
And now it's like an army pack of soaps.
Yup.
Any hobbies you have?
Nothing in Particular Dude that's so cool.
Defo try collect bars of soap,it's too damn satisfying.
I use to *Still do, mix a bunch of random soaps and add weird things like Vaseline and clay gel,and make it all in a pot then try cleaning things with it to see if its actually good.
Was watching Modern History TV. His description of 'gray soap' in medieval England looked alot like your molded soaps. Congratulations on awesome science and history teachings.
I love your channel so much
Foaming agents are added in to modern soap. Old fashioned soap won’t lather at all. Also, if your soap is thin, add some salt to it to thicken it before mixing it up.
This is like a not-incredibly-messed-up version of fight club.
first rule of fight club
Or a very-incredibly-messed-up version of fight club :)
What fight club?
Jacob C exactly
@@kdam39 oh shit
I've been making soap for years. I typically leave mine in the mold for 3 days before removing and cutting it into bars. Then I lets the bars open air cure for 3 weeks before using them. If they don't lather very well after 3 weeks, they need more time to cure.
How tok make salt water taffy would be an interesting video
francisco M the same way you make any toffee. The name salt water was given to sell toffee after a flood, there is no salt water
If you put apple vinegar on lime stone, it will fizzle as well. Also you can get the element you want from burning sea shells then letting the Calcium desolve in water, strain, and voila.
I am happy you have finally uploaded
My favorite oil to use when making soap is avocado oil, it doesn't sud that much but it's great for the skin
That girl with green hair has one of the manliest forearms in the entire internet.
Dude, don't say that.
@@miipmiipmiip i don't give a shit
I like how this expanding to more like a business. Like it would be so great to work for for HTME
Dr. Stone already thought me this...
I was looking for the comment with Dr. Stone reference
And Dr Stone made it look so easy...
Glad I got to see how to go from calcium carbonate to a finished cleaning product!
You should do basic electronics from scratch. Like try to make a motor from scratch
Connor Reardon making copper wire for a motor would be very difficult, not to mention steel with adequate magnetic properties (you want a metal with soft magnetism, not hard)
Surprisingly enough it's not hard to make a LED from natural materials. Though for using the "from scratch" concept it would involve a trip abroad to source natural silicon carbide aka moissanite. There is reportedly natural moissanite in Wyoming but it's very rare and hard to find.
cody has gotten so much better with his science! loving this growth!
It's like you go through Hercules 7 impossible tasks to do all this stuff. It's so interesting thank you so much for making these videos!!
I admire the lengths you go out of curiosity and experimentation. Well Done!
Soap isn't supposed to be that sudsy. Bubbling agents are added to modern soaps to convince the hu an brain that they're working by doing something visible
Natural soaps with no additives lather as well, that is where it originally came from. Modern soap may lather more, but almost all natural soaps lather as well.
@@rdizzy1 depends on the fats used. Theirs a big difference between lather and bubbles. Many fats form a thick lather or very little lather. Not as many fats get the full on bubbles that most think of when they think modern soap
Bubbles or lather, the function is the same, grease and dirt are trapped in the long chain of fatty acid with polar and non-polar ends on either side, thus capturing those molecules and allowing them to wash away freely when rinsed. There isnt a "supposed to be" as far as how much suds, bubbles, or lather are there. As long as they are there in amounts that can cover the surface being cleaned, then the function performs.
After the soap gardens, you have to take it out and let it sit for some weeks. preferable on a wire rack where they can get air on the bottom too, and placed them on the thin side too.
As for the lye, vinegar neutralizes it. Always ALWAYS have vinegar ready when dealing with lye.
Why does this guy only have 500k subs?
If I knew, I'd be able to sell that kind of information for millions of dollars.
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Right!?
What? I"m just saying I have no clue, but if I did, I would have figured out how people like them become popular, so I could make millions of dollars with that information.
Google algorithm. It prioritizes you tubers who submit new stuff multiple times a week.
African black soap is actually a really easy natural soap to make and has been around for thousands of years. I'm surprised you didn't make it in this video. It's made using plantain and/or cocoa ash and Shea butter/ coconut oil.
Your comment answered my question about the plantain ash.
Um.... safety goggles??? I know you have eyeglasses but PLEASE REMEMBER TO WEAR SAFTEY GEAR!!! Don’t want to get blind because of a silly accident...
Especially when blending strong bases with a blender!
That's like the quickest way to damage your cornea.
Only if he wants to. You can't make people do anything they don't want to do.
Now all you need to do is pick your favorite oils, mix them to get the characteristics you love and design your favorite formula. Welcome to my world, LOL. Hope you enjoyed your journey into soap making! It was very fun and entertaining to watch you in your soapy workstation. ALWAYS test your soap for pH. I was glad to see you didn't attempt the age old technique of the 'zap test' for your soap. Since I'm investigating African Black soap techniques I was very interested in how you used the ash. Nice job!
With African soap ,isn’t the ash plantain ash?Or is it a blend of ash?
@macnchessplz Potash from Africa comes from whatever local plants are most bountiful in different parts of Africa. In Ghana and West Africa plantain and cocoa pod potash is common. In other parts of Africa other potassium rich plants are used such as bamboo. In North America potash is found in the earth in rich deposits found mainly in Canada and Montana. Potash is essentially potassium carbonate. 1:34
Love the animation ❤️ it's refreshing.
Love your interns. They added something fresh and entertaining to the video.
Another amazing episode of How To Make Everything! If you don't mind me asking, why did some of the voice overs sound almost robotic?
I like how he used multiple methods with a wide variety of bases, wether the alkaline portion or the fats portion I appreciate that you had such a wide variety of things.
It's cool to see you've got interns!
This and TierZoo are the two most unique channels I have ever seen and I love it
No suds does not mean not clean! The lathering is from additives in commercial soap. Even without bubbles, soap will clean. Probably wanna avoid the sticky slimy stuff though.
Donna is gorgeous, she has a positive future in your series, l think.
Commercial soap has a lathering agent added. Real soap doesn't really lather much.
If you use a Soap Stone (just an oval stone that fits in your palm easily) you scrub your hands around that while you use your soap as if it were the bar of soap itself and it gets you cleaner than if you don't use one. Plus you don't have to pay to add a lathering agent. Hope this helps someone! 💜
Someone please explain why the beeswax reacted with the lye solution but none of the other fats? I know a very medial amount of chemistry.
Theoretically the reaction is the same. The beeswax was very hot to make it liquid so it reacted a lot faster, as well as the alkaline hydrolysis reaction being exothermic and making it even hotter. It's probably also a lot more viscous allowing the foam to form.
My guess is Because of the water content of the alcaline solution, hot wax and water is a dangerous mix, he was actually lucky it wasnt worse, as far as i know from the soap i made you cannot make soap with beeswax only as your fat, as it is not really a fat, i usually just add a little to the base oil i happen to be using, but using bwax only i wouldnt even try.
Now i understand why i never see a "bee taking a bath!"
It was the sugar in the beeswax. You'll notice that the other two "fats" (I honestly don't consider milk a fat but a liquid when it comes to soap making) with high sugar contents were out in a water bath before the lye was added. Not only was the beeswax super heated to melt it in order to mix the lye in, but it was also still on the heat, and the sugar increases the exothermic reaction that is caused by the saponification process. Even in appropriate amounts (you'd never make a 100% beeswax soap) a soap maker can experience volcanoeing once the soap batter has been molded. Many soap makers will actually put soaps in the fridge or freezer after molding if they have high sugar contents to help avoid this from happening
after binge watching all of his videos I am now 100 percent sure when I say .... THIS GUY IS THE COOLEST GOD DAM PERSON EVER
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Recipe • Ingredients :-
4 Cups (1 Liter \ 1000 ml) Coconut Oil.
1 Cup (250 ml) Water.
1/2 Cup (4 Ounces \ 125 Grams) Lye , Sodium Hydroxide - Lye \ Caustic Soda.
1 Tablespoon Lemon Extract Oil.
Loving this show. Proper rough science that you can get into.
Did I understand right? A mixture of oil and ash equals soap?
Fatty oil and ash
Any fat and ash. In fact, medieval people without access to soap would use ash on its own. The ash would combine with the grease and fat on their skin, creating impromptu soap that could then be washed off. This was a little dangerous though, as ash is alkaline and it could easily result in an alkaline burn.
Donna and Randi, you ROCK! I have dry skin. If I did that, my hands would be a MESS! Three cheers for the valiant interns!
Oh god, I'm not exactly excited for the razor video...be careful.
BlueTJ it’s his way of making a living chill
without sponsors, ads, and anything else that conjures money, he won’t have enough funding for these videos
@@salazaralyssaI think they meant they're not excited for the "making a razor from scratch" video, not the sponsorship.
by far one of the best chanels on youtube
A small point about the soap tests: Whether or not your soap makes suds doesn't actually mean much when you're trying to evaluate its actual effectiveness. That thick, bubbly lather you get out of most soaps, shampoos, and other cleaning products comes from ingredients added _after_ the soap is made.
You see, humans tend to get nervous when they put something to work and they can't see it working; even if your more rational mind says "Of _course_ you can't see the oils and grease fall off your hands", the more primitive part of your brain still just associates stillness and silence with a lack of action. This is why people put hydrogen peroxide on cuts; this is why computer software (down to the operating system) always include an hourglass or a ball or some kind of spinning, moving _something_ to let you know it's thinking; and this is why modern soaps foam. None of that stuff actually _does_ anything _itself,_ it's just a reassurance that _yes,_ the product _is_ working as intended and work _is_ being done.
The funny thing is, computer and soap manufacturers and such could probably save time and money (and a tiny bit of processing power, for computers) by cutting these things out, but we've been using these things to reassure our confidence for so long that many people if not _most_ aren't actually aware that they're not important, so we'd probably slam any company that tried. Just imagine a computer that didn't have some kind of "I'm thinking" indicator, or go back and watch the interns again.
Except you can actually feel on your hands that they are being cleaned, no need to see it. Especially if you have oil on your hands.
So this is why we get a dial tone or a busy signal? Tinder and E-Harmony could use this process with a message for us studs who are still waiting for our inbox: "You're not just on hold Son, Keep em cumming! Anytime now!"
You should've used a lye calculator to avoid your soap from being too caustic. Different oils have varying levels of fat and the amount of lye you use should adjust to that. Also, cold process soaps require 4-6 weeks to cure for the lye to completely disappear 🙂
Those Interns are cute af especially Donna she's cute as hell 💟
The honey in the beeswax made it volcano. Sugar excellerates! In your defense you handled it a lot better than I would have! Love the videos, and the scientific approach!
Cookin' up soap in the crockpot...
Riley Brownell believe it or not a crockpot is the standard tool used to make soap at home. I have one that's dedicated to soapmaking exclusively.
My bar bad and bubbly
Love the upgrade from mason jars to beakers!!
Girl with green hair need to join the dollar shave club
I actually did research on the history of soap and the chemistry of saponification behind it. It was really cool to see that in a video and see a practical application of chemistry in real life.
you should make pancakes and syrup from scratch!
Be already has all the ingredients from scratch
YAAAAAAAAS!!!! Been waiting for this one!! I make soap, so, excited to see his process......
IKEA’s hotplates mights be a little more easy to clean lol
Oh they are induction cooktops. Still easier to clean 🤷🏼♀️
Ikea -boy- girl
a difference between hot and cold process soap (using lye) is cold process you have to wait weeks around 4 to use the soap because of the lye whereas hot process the lye is basically cooked out and is safe to use immediately after making
great job as always mate been with your channel since before 1000subs glad to see it growing really well content has always been great and only getting better so thank you for teaching me how to make everything :)
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Love his reaction of none of the other things did that
next up on How To Make Everything: how to make crack
Take cocaine, add in water and baking soda, cook slowly until it hardens into rocks without burning it.
@@rdizzy1 but he's gotta make the cocaine too.
@@InsanePigeon there are really educational videos from documetals of the FARC
Don't forget to sing happy birthday twice.
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Not gonna lie... those soaps look reaaaally appetizing.
UA-cam LET ME GO TO BED!
im about to try my very first batch of homemade soap. i feel like mine is gonna turn out like most of these 🤣 but hey, it really does seem easy. ive gotten all the stuff now that i need to do it. just takin that step and actually tryin is all thats left!! 🍀
Your channel is ABSOLUTELY amazing because of the amt of effort you put in to everything you do for your vids is astounding i LOVE your channel, also if you want to can you try to make liquid soap next just wondering
Nice. There's a reason why coconut oil and palm oil are high on the list of any soap making recipe - both incredible lather and good bar hardness. You won't believe how bubbly is a 100% coconut oil soap, my favorite. I second the comment about SoapCalc, it's a great tool which takes care of all the math.
Do how to make ink then try to use it in a printer.
My grandma, who was a teen during the Great Depression, would make her own soap using lard and lye. She would scent it using mint or rose water she also made herself. I remember using it when I was a kid. It didn’t smell much of anything, and didn’t lather very much, but it did the job.
She also didn’t take showers or bathes much. Instead, she washed herself from a basin using a wash cloth and her home made soap and rinsed with a pitcher of well water. This is also how she would bathe us before church when I was a little child. To me, this didn’t seem odd till I got much older. But my mom later told me that she did this to conserve water since her water source was from a well. My grandma never smelled bad. As a matter of fact, thinking back, she always had a unique smell of old sewing machine oil and rose water. That may not sound pleasant, but it was honestly very earthy.
Can you make soap out of krabby patties?
Top Tip: if you can find horse chesnut trees, both the leaves and the conkers contain naturally occurring saponins - you can literally scrunch up a couple of leaves in your hands, add water and get a soapy lather to wash your hands with :)
dude, use the lye calculator and Superfat the recipe. Use 20% coconut oil (cleansing) 5% castor oil (lather)... Everything else was bang on!
Can't use a lye calculator if you don't know the actual purity of your lye. Just doesn't work that way
Actually, the ashes of seaweed and of plants that grow in salt marshes ("barilla" or "saltwort") are best for making soap, because they provide Sodium carbonate (which produces a hard soap), instead of Potassium carbonate (which produces a soft soap). Also, the best soap was made from olive oil (rather than animal fat).
Dude miss green hair is awesome
This was a really enjoyable episode! I also felt that it had more humor in it than previous ones, which I enjoyed. :)
I also enjoyed the comments of the Intern team.
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