Yup. (Though today I fell asleep during his making margarine video and autoplay meant I woke up as he was adding additives to his solid soaps and got *very* confused, haha.)
I love the last shot with all the soap. On the left: homey looking soaps with all kinds of colorful, textured additives. On the right: Walmart jug of glowy shit that will hurt you.
@@memberwhen22 I go to sleep to his videos each night, and have watched almost all of them. Edit: I should probably mention that It's not as creepy as it sounds. I just want a voice that doesn't get excited, and is interesting, but not scary.
Now I really appreciate the soap makers.Specially the little business soap makers. This is such a tedious process for such a long time. I also now understand how expensive those are.
Making GOOD soap is not exactly quick or easy. The ingredients aren't cheap and there is a lot of labor and time. This is why I have no problem spending a little money on a GOOD soap.
@@naturegirl1999 yes, taste can determine certain minerals like halite (rock salt) or how they can stick to your tongue (kaolinite absorbs water when dry). However common sense needs to be applied when putting something in your mouth, as there are plenty of minerals you dont want inside of your body.
My grandfather made soap for P&G for 35 years started as a soap cutter and moved up to a lab for quality testing he used to take me to the plant when i was a kid some of my first memories were at that plant watching this really makes me think of him
Have you ever thought about doing a prepper type series? Something that looks at applying chemistry with fairly accessible ingredients (I imagine it would end up being a lot of green chemistry) to make useful items in an environment/scenario that harder to get chemicals and such aren't available. I'm not into the apocalypse/prepper thing, but I know many people are and in general people like to learn how to make things on the rough. Kind of like the How to Make Everything channel, I guess, but applying your expertise more. Just sounds kind of interesting in my head.
Noah Alonge If you're interested in that type of stuff Cody's Lab is a channel that's friends with Nile, and Cody basically does all types of survival stuff since he lives on a ranch and likes making his own stuff with chemistry and working with metals and such. If you haven't checked him out you definitely should
Some of these things wouldn’t be too difficult tho, like the solid soap can be weighed out on scales and mixed with standard baking equipment, only thing that’s not common there is the NaOH which isn’t too hard to get. Also with simple distillations I have an idea of how you could use household items but I haven’t tested it yet so I’m not going to claim it’s possible.
Your videos have been coming in handy lately. I'm taking Organic Chemistry at the moment and the last few labs have all been reactions i've seen on your channel. We're doing saponification tomorrow, hot process for solid soap of course for the sake of time, but I actually used some of the information you give to guide me on my Pre-Lab work sheet. Thank you :3
I know this is one of your older videos, so you likely won't read this, but thank you so much for making this video! In it, you mentioned coconut oil being a common ingredient in soaps, which is how I discovered that my sister's soap allergy(which has gone unexplained for *years*) is likely just an extension of her coconut allergy. Videos like this, explaining chemistry in fun and involved ways, can and *do* help people learn important things about the world around them! Thank you so much for doing what you do :)
I know this was four years ago I've been making soap off and on since 1996 perfecting the liquid soap making process is very hard I'm finally getting there watching your video I just wanted to let you know I love the way you totally described Every chemical aspect and point that is exactly what a true soap maker wants and needs to know you did a great job if you ever want to attempt the liquid soap again I preheated my distilled water and added the paste to it and on a tiny tiny flame with a potato masher I continually work with it and put a lid on it and I had it totally dissolved within a couple hours without disrupting the soap product at all and I use citric acid to neutralize it came out beautiful
Interestingly, having soap lather makes it less efficient. The bubbles require extra surfactant to be exist, removing it from the solution where they could be stabilizing the oil droplets. But I think the effect is very small, insignificant. Lather is something much more related to our perception of cleanliness and value for money (more lather -> more concentrated soap) than how well it can clean.
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say I think you meant surface tension, it's not capillary action (although capillary action is also related to surface tension). I don't think there's any good evidence that this is true, it's just something that soap manufacturers claim. I doubt the foam in my dish soap is doing anything compared to me scrubbing it with a sponge.
a lot of what makes commercially-produced soap lather is sodium lauryl sulfate its also what makes toothpaste foam because lather and foam means its working or so the marketing department would have you believe
When I was in my late teens and early 20's I worked as a carpet cleaner using hot water extraction. What most call "Steam Cleaning" We had a rule that for every 18F (same as every 10C) you increased your water temp above ambient you doubled your cleaning effectiveness. Wow, who knew there was real chemistry involved there!
Well, long chain fatty acids are the main component of ear wax. I'm certain that NileRed can find a way to turn them into fatty acid salts (aka soap) as well. And you don't even have to go through the step of removing the glycerol if you need industrial soap! :D
Your videos always got me curious about chemistry. I love looking up the physical properties of things like refrigerant when I recharge my cars A/C or what breaks down amino acids in the body when I consume a protein shake. Keep making awesome videos man.
Don't feel bad. It is basically the same thing: one uses principles and a recipie and the things you make are not necessarly edible. The other uses recipies and the things you make are suposed to be edible. It is the same thing
I made soap in organic chemistry. It was pretty cool. I was considering making soap when the pandemic first hit but we already had lots of it, so I decided to make hand sanitizer instead, but I drank the middle part of the distillation and made sanitizer out of the heads and tails of the distillation. The only problem was that it made you smell like a serious alcoholic when you used it. lol
You can make a green emitting soap laser now since you added fluorescein. You just need a pulsed laser pump source at 488 nm and a set of mirrors with high reflective coatings at 540 nm. Actually 308 nm will pump that soap too. Get access to a XeCl excimer laser.
Very nice series! It's possible I might try to replicate it one day. One thing you could've done in a part three, was to do a bacterial culture test to verify the effectiveness of your soap compared to commercial soaps.
When you said "all of the oils," because you had olive oil displayed, my mind comprehended it as "olive the oils" and I immediately started picturing Popeye's girlfriend XD.
When making hot process soap, don’t allow the liquid in the container to go beyond the half-way point: when the hot lye water and the hot oils meet in a hot slow cooker, the reaction can result in expansion and a boil-over. If you see that this is about to happen, *IF* you can move the slow cooker to the floor safely before the contents actually make their way out, that’ll make clean-up easier; otherwise, LEAVE THE SLOW COOKER ON THE SURFACE AND ALLOW THE BOIL OVER TO HAPPEN. Clean up is going to be a nightmare, but it’s far better to allow the contents to boil over and not get your hands burned. The hot soap with its corrosiveness will solidify on your hands and do a lot of damage. Don’t use wood, bamboo, paper, aluminium to mix soap; be cautious of thin plastics. Do not use ingredients that are known to be irritating when making soap. Like I said in my comment on your solid cold process soap video, *you know this isn’t smart, but you’re not doing what’s smart. You have a responsibility to practice what’s wise for the folks that don’t have the common sense you and I do. Practice what’s prudent...not what’s possible. Look out for the folks that don’t have common sense or respect the danger in making soap. PPE should always be used when making soap: closed-toe shoes, pants, long sleeves, gloves with the sleeves tucked into the gloves, and goggles. Oh, and hair pulled back (I should edit my comment in your other video to mention pulling back long hair). Keep pets, children, and idiots away from you while using lye and hot liquids and heating apparatuses. This is coming from someone who has studied soap making for ten years and has been making soap for six years. I also have a scar from a chemical burn because of soap making - I wasn’t wearing appropriate PPE because I got too comfortable and too confident in my abilities.
I watched this video 3 years ago when you first made it, but I just watched it again, and the fluorescent green/brown soap gave me a flashback to the school nurse in my elementary school. I cut myself pretty bad in school, and she cleaned the wound with soap that looked exactly like that, before sending me to the ER to get stitches.What kind of soap did they have back in 1989?
Part three is required maybe part 4. You did solid soap and liquid soap so it only stands to reason you’ll cover gaseous soap and maybe plasma soap. Though I will forgive you if you don’t demo the plasma soap with your hands.
As a soapmaker i would say your demonstration should be named as how not to make liquid soap.. even cold processed, the potassium hydroxide based soap would complete saponification within a short period of time, except with olive oil which known to take hours to reach the trace. If you had used a soap calc, and super fatted it about 3%, you don't have to worry about lowering the pH value either. Borax is a totally irrelevant ingredient, and soapmakers would avoid it even as a thikener alone. There is no need to add boiling water to dilute either. Use distilled water and leave it to sit overnight.
12:24 Thanks for the demonstration, but *please* turn off the faucet while lathering your hands. Maybe it's a European thing, but seeing all that water just rush by bothered me a lot.
an experiment was attempted to make a cesium soap sometime during the early 80's, the lab caught fire but when the fire department arrived everything was clean barred from obvious fire damage and some dead scientists.
i did put some in my mouth and i guess it was done cuz it just seemed like i put soap in my mouth, gross, but didnt zap me or taste particularly bitter... so i did another test i just thought of, try and wash my hands with it! it worked incredibly well, this recipe is seriously great, your really underselling it in the intro telling us not to do this one lol.
I am studying electrical engineering and I'm in my second year but after watching many of your videos i think I am going to change to chemistry. I even got perfect scores in my Chem 101 class. I love it that much. I talk about that with all my buddies and they all hated chemistry. I guess i really need to change.
Flourescine soap might actually be a pretty novel idea for glassware that you really need to be clean. Wash your glass with it, then check under a blacklight to confirm it's all clean. Could you post a few pics on twitter if you try it?
Tip from a soap maker: For liquid soap dissolve the KOH in pure vegetable glycerine instead of water. It accelerates the process dramatically. You have to heat the glycerine to about 200F and dissolve the KOH. It will bubble a lot. But when you mix it with the oils and begin to mix it will go to the clear toffee stage in about 10 seconds. I usually then just add the water to the slow cooker and cook it on low for several hours to dissolve.
Personally I would try and use an oil with a more mild color than olive. Something more neutral so that I can color the soap better and maybe less yellow.
L no that’s almost the exact same color as olive oil. I’m thinking something like canola or coconut. A clear or white color. The baby shit green color isnt pleasant to me.
@@iconic762 Lol the reason hes using olive oil is because coconut oil will tear up sensitive skin. Olive oil is specifically what soap makers use because it won't hurt you. If you want to make it go ahead, but your essentially making laundry detergent. Now, some coconut oil in soaps is fine, but you really don't want it as a primary ingredient. In this video, using excess coconut oil probably caused it to be way more damaging to skin than needed. The irritation he described at the end was certainly worsened by the coconut oil.
@@princesszelda6791 coconut oil is a very drying oil in soap. You can counteract that drying/stripping the natural oils from your skin by raising the super fat in your recipe. Super fat is free oils that have not been turned into soap. Making a 100% coconut oil soap makes a beautiful soap with a 20-30% super fat. When 100% coconut oil has a 0% super-fat, it makes an amazing laundry or stain stick. I hope that little bit helps understanding working with coconut oil.
@@brookemitchell7496 Yes, of course you could always raise the superfat percentage, but given that they are most likely following the recipe in the video very closely, using just coconut wouldn't work well. Even in the video, it hurts his hands, granted there were extra chemicals, but the coconut oil he used hurt him worse.
Hi Nile, your explanation is very well done, thank you so much for your effort in sharing the process. I have a favor to ask from you; since you have the chemistry knowledge and have the possibility of creating this wonderful videos, could you possibly create a video explaining the steps to create a "Toothpaste Base" leaving it ready to add essential oils and other natural ingredients, and possibly also baking soda or perhaps bentonite clay as mild abrasives, since majority of the commercially available toothpaste options out there are full of harmful chemicals. It will be greatly appreciated for many people just like myself who are trying to diminish the environmental toxic chemicals from entering our bodies. Thank you.
@@princesszelda6791 I am assuming that everything you do to a soap to make it degrease better, will make it worse on the skin *for exactly that reason*
@@oscargr_ Generally yes, I tend to make a soap out of all coconut oil for use as a household cleaner, and I use some olive oil and less coconut oil for a hand soap, and all olive oil for face soap. There are a few techniques you can use to make a stronger soap better for the skin, superfatting for example will help a stronger soap be better for your skin, which is where you use more oils than can be saponified. I would recommend using hemp oil and jojoba oil if you're planning to superfat. Ultimately, you kind of have to experiment with what oil ratios that you like. I would recommend making a few varieties for different tasks, that way you can get a really strong degreaser for things like dishes, and something gentler for your hands. Also, i don't remember if he does it in the video, but using glycerin as well as water to react with the hydroxide can help with the cleaning action as well as the gentleness. Also, you need to react the hydroxide with the water outside or in some kind of fume hood. It gives off dangerous lye fumes which can be very harmful in a closed space, but are significantly safer outdoors.
You take some out save it for later (it lasts longer in gel state). Then dissolve desired amount in the crock-pot with distilled water. Add citric acid if needed for PH
It lasts for 22 very radioactive minutes before there isn't enough francium for it to really be called francium soap. Caesium would be better. Or could use gold.
