Making Soap (Part 1)

Nice! I hope they all turn out :)

Nile Red

Hey, I wanted to share what my kids and I did for Father's day. Thanks for the great idea! <a href="http://imgur.com/QWzoPGl" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/QWzoPGl</a>

sorry about that, Ive fixed it now :)

Nile Red

He re-uploaded the video to correct a mistake, and the original video isn't available anymore. There's a corrected version on his youtube channel.

Silviu T

I tried 2x and I can't view this video. Screen says it's unavailable. What should I do?

mrkhrdr@gmail.com

That is very weird

Nile Red

I don't know why my posts keep disappearing. There were at least 2 comments I left here that are missing now.

Silviu T

Good idea. Biodiesel is easy to make, and would be a nice example of a transesterification reaction. I've done it before for fun, and I didn't even have a car that I could use it in. :)

Silviu T

We have always used rendered pork fat for making soap.

That looks like the road to biodiesel or maybe some useful homemade plastic ? (maybe vegetable oil based polyurethanes ) ("Polyols and Polyurethanes from Vegetable Oils and Their Derivatives")

Ah well. Just Cash giving you Cash i guess.

Ha I really want to. I used to name everyone but eventually there were too many. I'm supposed to eventually give more rewards. But I am slow

Nile Red

I was thinking more like a joke at the end but that doesn't tie into your video style or narration. disregard and enjoy the bump to $5

What do you mean? Like mention your name?

Nile Red

True. Id gotten both 25M NaOH solution and solid on my hand for prolonged periods. The 25M (slightly warm) was on my face. small droplets, but were almost instantly like needles stabbing me. The solid stuff just made my hand slightly red and itchy.

Nile Red

NaOH will melt your skin, if you are patient enough. It slowly absorbs water and turns into concentrated solution and attacks the skin. It is not too painful either, so you might not wash it off in time, so some caution is advised.

Adam Rak

Haha there we go that's the spirit :)

The Gayest Person on Patreon

On second though, you do you. If you want to get base burns, then who am i to stop you?

Nile Red

Whaat? Not allowed to do it for fun? Myself and all of my friends canceled our monthly gaming and streaming subscriptions and just get together on weekends to dip limbs into hot lye solutions. I won't let you take that away from us!!1

The Gayest Person on Patreon

ha, i mean. Just because it isnt super dangerous doesnt mean you should do it for fun :p

Nile Red

8:00 (Please don't purposely repeat) - A man who knows his audience. Great video by the way!

The Gayest Person on Patreon

It does have a vanilla/coconut/almond smell

Yeah I kind of knew my recipe was super basic and not the greatest. I am not a pro soap maker by any means. If I did it again, I'd definitely use more coconut oil I understand your more scientific point about superfatting but I dont personally think it's super important to add. The soap demolding issue is probably partly due to water, but it has to be mostly due to the additives. Only cinnamaldehyde and menthol were soft. All the others were hard. I was going to mention the soap rack, but I forgot, ha. Oops. I meant to add in at least a small annotation.

Nile Red

One more thing: the main reason for your soap being so soft and hard to de-mould the next day was using way too much water. I generally use a 40% or more solution of NaOH (up to 50-55%). As a warning though, the less water you use the faster you will go through the trace stages.

Silviu T

Yeah. I think coconut oil is almost all lauric acid (at least a large percentage)

Nile Red

I saw you had Lauric acid up as a fatty acid. Could you use pure lauric acid and potassium hydroxide?

Sure, let me know what you think

Nile Red

Watching the videos now, I'll write a longer comment when done. I was at work when I got the notification and couldn't do either earlier.

Silviu T

Oh man I had no idea. You probably coulve helped me quite a bit

Nile Red

Ha so you're making soap now. You should have asked me for recipes. I make some very nice soaps. :)

Silviu T

What did you do? Just mix the two and observe a change?

Nile Red

Lipid-base reactions! I remember doing an olive oil + NaOH experiment in HS chemistry, though I can't say that what we made was particularly soap-like...

jason black