NOTE: 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!
Contest is OVER!: gleam.io/Drjb1/soap-giveaway
Link to Part 2: • Making liquid soap
Today, we are doing some more everyday chemistry. I've decided to make both solid soap (part 1) and liquid soap (part 2).
I got the recipe for the solid soap here: goo.gl/sY9YSy
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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!
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!
Thanks, I appreciate it!
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.
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.
hmm interesting!
Soap is the literal definition of: "I used the grease to destroy the grease"
Or like fighting fire with fire.
Or like cooling down a drink with ice
@@iron1975 no
@@iron1975 rude
@@iron1975 edgelord whos balls havent dropped
As a kid, I used to freeze shampoo thinking I would be able to use it as soap.
I used to freeze milk thinking I could make ice cream 😅
@@mariyachmykh821 frozen flavoured milk like strawberry or chocolate makes a nice lolly
@@oxybrightdark8765 lol...
did it work
@@spandexgoblin it probably did for the few minutes it was frozen.
I can’t break the number 1 rule but I’m amazed KZhead would recommend the soap and the margarine videos after I literally just got done watching that movie.
time to go to a plastic surgery clinic at night
@@pomelo9518 fight club
@@pomelo9518 its ***** ****
@@strogonoffcore ssshhh, you're not supposed to talk about that.
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.
*me, sitting on my couch licking cheeto dust off my fingers* : hmm yes, triglycerides, that makes sense.
Same, except I’m in my bed at 3 in the morning and it’s Cheetos puffs.
I was bored and searched how to make a soup for no reason but I wrote it wrong than I saw Nile's video
Riptide Gaming that’s literally exactly what I’m doing rn
I feel personally offended considering I was really eating Doritos :D
@@apricotduck same
Nile red in 2019: making soap Nile red in 2021: making meth only using an easy bake oven
turning a towel into crystal meth
drugheads would be going crazy rn
any day now...
Holy- I forgot about easy bake ovens Soo nostalgic.
turning water into fire
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.
true XD
If I recall right one of the ingredients in soap is REALLY bad to touch
A random person on a plane was explaining this to me and he then tried to sell me soap
"I do not like the idea of spreading misinformation" we need more people like you
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.
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?
+Maggie P Can't fix stupid.
@@maggiep9007 Calculated move. Natural selection can't take place so we have to have some incentive lol
I do not like the idea of spreading misinformation.
Nilered: wears gloves while handling strawberries and soap Also nilered: wears no gloves while handling LYE
I mean, that's pretty easy to fix actually, just tell the truth
Captain Obvious. heeheehoo
It does burn skin. Once splashed it on my eyelid. That was not fun.
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.
dude was making uranium glass and had nothing but some gloves on
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.
I am thinking of creating a small business out of this too. How would you write the soaps name on the bar?
@@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.
@@awarose Okay, Thanks
@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.
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.
Narrator: “what do you do?” Tyler Durden: “I make and I sell soap”
Soap beaker: cinnamon Soap beaker: lavender Soap beaker: cocoa Soap beaker: *METH*
I am not in danger mom i am the danger xd
yes thats what i saw too, thought i had lost it lmaoo
I didn't think of that xD
Considering that the soap would hurt when used, the name should be something hardcore
@@SS-qs3yq kek
As a soap maker it's really entertaining to see a chemist know everything but struggle
is that u tyler
@@atakan618 hehe
Men should not go near lavender
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
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
This reminds me of an old friend of mine, a pharmacist who often made her own fancy soaps to give away as Christmas presents.
The poppy seed one is like a polka dot soap and this one is the most beautiful one you made.
7:50 _purposefully dips in finger to show how not harmful it is_ *Next scene* _has gloves on_
We had to wear gloves and safety goggles while making tea in chemistry class once. And our teacher wasn't kidding...
@@screamintothevoid5336 why was your class making tea...?
@@snowparody i don't even remember
@@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
@@josephinemabano4940 just some normal green tea :D
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.
same! guess orange is the new green.
Here's a description of the chemical processes that occur as I perform this complicated experiment. Also my green accidentally turned orange.
*your
@@joeljobi6149 wow it's almost like humans make mistakes 😳
@@ChaoGG xD im sorry
honestly this is the one of the more informative sources on soap making available, most of the articles I looked at instructed users to just buy already manufactured soap, melt it, and add food coloring.
ah the classic melt and pour. i mean it is the most risk free. but it sure as hell doesn't teach you anything.
I showed this video to a league of legends player and he's now a chemistry major
Nature is healing
"This idea of using more oil than is needed is generally known as superfatting" Yeah, my mom does this every time she cooks
Eh...
They say you are what you cook.
I like your icon
@@malodos2295 does that mean im nothing?
@@shroompot9113 Yes
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*
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.
@@matasa7463 Damn Calm Down With Your Language Dude
@@matasa7463 why don't you drink it...don't give damn to naturopathic nonsense. You are the only one who has aalllll the sense.
@@swamisamartha3332 did you have a stroke?
@@LittleEinsteinAdi yes it seems I did play a master stroke... And you came to your senses.🤔
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.
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 :)
This dude just got addicted to soap making vids and then was like “wait i have a KZhead channel”
*Safya Nyagaar (I might have mislelled it) has entered the chat*
Darian Comsa very misspelled. Safiya Nyagaard*
@@nathatleue well, it's not THAT much. I just frogot an "i" and a "d"
@@nathatleue thx for correcting me anyway
@@nathatleue Actually it's Nygaard😅
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
@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
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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!
Other soap makers on KZhead: "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
Most videos I ever watch, I won't re-watch. But some of the videos on this channel hold every value to make them rewatchable. They are educational, entertaining, and calming, and esthetically pleasing - everything. Nigel has a very nice voice, his presentation, and his the manner of speech are also just right. I know this sounds just very general, but it's true. It's difficult to make a good channel which represents your passion, so every once that succeedes deserves praise.
I love this because he's just making soap but it's still in a lab
I especially love the fact that he buys essential oils and refers to them by their actual chemical like “cinnemaldehyde” 😁
This is a very important experiment.
where tf do you think soap is made lmao
Shush
What did u think he is gonna make it in a kitchen or something like that?
So technically, in my will, i can ask to turn my ashes into soap Hell yeah
I guess you could also ask to save some fat tissue to use instead of oil...
this seems oddly like something that happened in history
YES Kermit flavored soap
Wilson Percival Higgsbury waitwaitwait i think youre using soap wrong
Pretty sure lye only comes from wood ashes but I’m no professional
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!!!
In my class where we dissected a frog my teacher also taught us how to make moonshine
“Soap trusted you, I thought I could too, so why in bloody hell does Makarov know you?”
"After mixing for a while, it somehow became orange instead." That doesn't look too ba- oh.
*CHEMISTRY*
The orange juice that tastes like mints
@@masterzoroark6664 that just made me think about the way orange juice tastes after brushing your teeth lol
*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."
the food colouring killed me 😭😭😭
My grandpa used to make lots of soaps! They were really good, and they had lots of pastel colours.
We made benzaldehyde in AP chemistry in the late ‘90s!! In fact, it was my 2nd fav class in highschool. My first favorite being gifted chemistry. Yes, I liked it so much I took it twice!
no one: nilered: soap that makes you HURT
Bone hurting juice but its not the bones and its soap
So no one said nothing or... everybody said something... or... nothing or... what?
A great gift for your enemy
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)
oh hi mark
Fantastic video! I appreciate the in-depth explanation of the chemistry behind soap making. It adds a valuable layer of understanding to the process. Keep up the amazing content!
I did a soap lab in Grade 12 as apart of our organic chemistry unit. It's great to understand everything.
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
No worries! Just glad to have you here :)
You are a true informer! educated as a personal trainer so not really deep into the chemistry. But im learning alot through your videos.
Me too man
Now this just makes my heart swell.
Most college students get broke mysteriously the moment they meet their professors. Others get away by sticking to others.
these 5-minute-crafts are kinda getting out of hand. edit: oh my god guys it's a joke.
why even compare 5mc is trash and NileRed is gold
5 month crafts
@@breanne923 lmao
You mean 5 week crafts
5 millennium crafts
I used to work at a big grease plant and the most common oil we used was hydrogenated castor oil, at least for the basic lithium soap I cooked. They had two other major types of grease. One was called poly-urea and the other contained a large proportion of bentonite and was called aeroshell. There were dozens of different additives like these weird plastic goos, metals like molybdenum or aluminum, pigments, graphite, and once I used a large amount of acetic acid which I thought was odd. It was added after the lithium had already been pressure contacted with the solid castor oil and some thinning oil, like a bituminous oil or something like that. We used some oil that smelled really off. Every couple of weeks the whole place would smell like a Chinese restaurant and jalapenos. I swear we got recycled oil from restaurants or something. That place was so huge, but it's gone now, up in smoke.
*"where is my mind" started playing in background*
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"
*"A really nice almond flavour that smells like cherry candies"*
A really nice dolphin that looks like a penguin
*A really nice chocolate donut that tastes like chicken soup*
U
Cyanide lol
He’s not wrong
there's nothing in this world I love to watch more when I'm high than your videos man, and for that thanks a lot
I just found your channel and subscribed.. you are amazing kid. Intelligence is a dying art... You should start making educational videos for schools or for begining chemist... The one thing that teachers never understand.... When students watch a 90 year old man talking about the subject on a video they automatically tune out... But a young sharp peer Showing the same info would help students drop their guard and retain more of the information... Best of luck to you in all that you do
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
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.
In the movie, too.
Fight club is so fucking gay
@@realleon2328 and your comment is so fucking childish. why are you using gay as if it's a bad thing?
@@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.
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)
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.
14:39 I cannot stress this enough- DO NOT use menthol-scented soap on your balls.
Sounds like you're speaking from experience
@@Owen_loves_Butters painful, painful experience ....so cold
I actually didnt know what soap was before this, thank you. I've got to go buy some!
i love how in trying to make relaxing minty soap you ended up making painful burning orange soap. chaotic
I physically recoiled when I saw how much menthol he added to one of them. Good LORD
The Smokers Choice of soap.
Why? Too much?
@@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.
My skin would instantly fall off, no joke.
its too late passed my bedtime and I thought you wrote methanol, not menthol and I was so confused lmao
im studying nutrition on college and one of my asignatures is biochemestry. the introduction of the video helped me a lot with the understanding of fatty acids and their reactions, thank you neil
He just gave us a well explained chemistry class on how to make soap
As a perfumer watching him pour that much bitter almond oil and cinnamon oil into the soap made me want to cry
Isn't cinnamon oil dangerous? I'd never put that in soap!
@@bluepsiongamer4909 yeah, i thought you can't put cinnamon in body products because of skin irritation
knowing nothing about soaps, I'm full blown wide eyed at the volume of additives he's put in to every soap
"perfumer" lol
I'm a soap maker, cinnamon will burn you. The ifra rate is extremely low, watching him use that much just made me cringe
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.
Ouch
ouch this seems like something chubbyemu would make a video about
I knew I was right to think the guy was to relaxed with working with something thats 14ph
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.
thanks a lot for sharing this! It's really important information
This is the first time I see/hear accurate information about sodium hydroxide. I work with it to make pretzels and it is exactly like Nile says. Protect your eyes, but as for the rest, it's not such a big deal. It also doesn't make water cook and splash like crazy as it's sometimes portrayed. When I make a 4% solution for the pretzels I even use warm water to begin with to get it to dissolve faster.
Nile: "wash it with a bunch of water" Also Nile: "I didn't even wash it with water ."
Also Nile: "adding water makes it a lot more dangerous" 😂
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
you understood it because your teacher explained to it before
ypur english is good for a second language! impressive!
@@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
@@oliverb.3588 ohh okay. still cool tho
@@TheMarshmallowMushroom lol
I love how the "essential oils" are actually just random chemicals.
That's because that's what they are, essences. They aren't 'essential' in the sense of necessary.
Technically speaking, every substance is a chemical
you’re actually not usually supposed to use essential oils in soap, you’re supposed to use fragrance oils
@@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
Haha this is a nice clarification. Essential not like necessary, but essential like, it’s essentially just the oil lol
ive been considering making my own soap since im becoming a naturalist freak. and now i literally will. thanks for the SIMPLEEEE tutorial i was almost gonna shell out money for squatch bars
No matter how old is a nilered video, if there's anything that I understand before he explain, I feel very glad by the fact that I actually absorbed something I learned in class.
“Don’t get this stuff on your skin. You see how I’m putting it on my skin? Don’t do that!”
xD
next up: gaseous soap
after that, plasma soap
MrVelcro56 then bose-einstein condensate soap
then a fermionic condensate soap
@Дьявол16 You literally read my mind. Stop stealing my thoughts. We could also have plasma soap or quark gluon soap.
I really want to try plasma soap. That'd be a badass way to die. ;D
the fact he totally reuploaded this instead of just making a note of it in the comments or description though 💯 mm. 10 out of 10. Just *chefs kiss*.
This is quite interesting because his charts/examples don’t need much experience to understand but he is teaching high level science.
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
I knooooowwww i want RoyaltySoaps to react to this video lol
@@vivianevans8543 god same that'd be awesome
Then the menthol too I nearly cried watching that
@@EmmaMaciaszek 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
On one hand I love watching NileRed but on the other my RoyaltySoaps knowledge is killing me ahahaha.
I thought it said "Making Soup" and you converted into a cooking show
Omg he should do a cooking video where he calls everything by it’s chemical name
I am taking Chemistry this year. I love the feeling of actually understanding what he's talking about.
i might be legitimately following this video in the next couple days, since i prefer solid soap for showering and i'd like to add scents myself. ill be adding eucalyptus, orange, pine and maybe some other oil (not necessarily all of them into one bar, doe) it'll be the first video of yours i follow
This dude: talking about chemistry and showing some formulas Me who failed chemistry every year: mmmmake the soampppp soap soap when soap show soap
Me.... that bar soap looks kinda tasty..
I appreciate you stranger. You made my day.
You're all dumbasses, congratulations!
Disappointment
i laughed way too hard at this
*makes soap from scratch* Tyler Durden *wants to know your location*
You could literally make it from salt water and oils if you make the sodium hydroxide so it would literally be from scratch
I’m here
Soap today, explosives tomorrow.
Sad I had to scroll so far for a fight club joke
@@job3rg ikr i figured theyd be everywhere
Hot process completes saponification faster and so can be safely used after you finish the cook. Cold process should finish saponification within about 48 hours and then is safe to use. Finishing saponification and curing are two different things. Cure is more about letting the excess water evaporate making the bars harder and more long lasting. Both cold and hot process soap take 4-6 weeks to cure. In fact, many times hot process soap benefits from a longer cure time than cold process because it is generally made with more water.
I love my homemade soap. I do it a lot different, but that's the beauty of soaping. Long as you use online soap calculator you get what you want.
As an experienced soaper, this video both entertained and horrified me lol
Please tell us what could be done differently. I'm going to try with some tallow in a few days
@@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 😅
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?
@@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.
@@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
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.
This is ten times more interesting than any of my chemistry lessons
I had to watch this for a tafe class when making soap. But the procedure we used was a bit different
This is just the perfect side hustle for me to spend my insomniac nights on.
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.
Jesus that sounds horrifying
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.
Donald Sayers if anything gets on your skin, especially in a lab, GET IT OFF
Yep acids dehydrate
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!
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!
9:49 why does this sound like some sort of chemical war
i remember making a soap in our organic chemistry subject, it took more than an hour to stir manually 😭 gladly we finish before our subject ends that day and after a month, my group got the highest score because our prof loves our packaging lol
19:13 Nearly everyone knows that chemistry is always interesting! Its sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly, sometimes tasty, sometimes stinky, but always amazing.
3:03 "when it comes to liquid soap it can be surprisingly complicated" Missed such a great opportunity to say "soap-risingly"
Friend: *makes soap like a hobby* NileRed: *makes soap like a science experiment*
AS YOU CAN SEE THE MOLECULES SUCK IN AND CONTAIN THE MOLECULES, POSITIVE NEGATIVE NEGATIVE POSITIVE. HYDROPHOBIA 1984 666
I came here in case i get turned to stone and wake up 3700 years later and need to make soap to survive.
The first rule of fight club is: Make your own soap.
"we'll go to the liposuction clinic..."
"The best fat for making soap, comes from humans." -Tyler Durden, Fight club
wdym????
@@ChrisTian-sd5yq go watch fight club
@@ChrisTian-sd5yq fight club
@@pipebombmailer okay, is that a movie?
@@ChrisTian-sd5yq YES
my parents were interested in the making of soap and how it works, and i remembered this video, it was pleasant to see it had spanish subtitles so i didn't need to translate anything
I'm amazed at how handy and relatively tame Lye is. My dad swore by 'Liquid Fire'; but sulfuric acid is pretty fickle and destructive. It destroyed the metallic fittings of one of our bathtubs. Turns out dad never applied 'Vaseline' to the fittings as suggested by 'Liquid Fire'.
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*
Me: o-o
spicy soap
I do love the scent of menthol😊😊😊😊
@@ArktourosUltorMaximus7600 do u like the burn
@@exari_ yep.
NILERED, THIS IS IMPORTANT HUGE COMPANIES LIKE DOVE ARE RIPPING OFF YOUR IDEA OF MAKING SOAP YOU NEED TO SUE THEM
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
@@rinrose4019 then how does it clean
@@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.
@@rinrose4019 Detergent is another name for soap.
@@breckr1121 no, detergent contains sulfonate, while soap does not contain it.
Captain Price is gonna be tweaking when he sees this
So many missed opportunities for 'Fight Club' references 🤣
If you like soap making, I highly recommend Royalty Soaps!
Didn’t Katie also advise against all cinnamon things in soap
Keira I was thinking the same thing when he added it. Also she said not to use food coloring.
Keira yep cinnamon burns from what ive heard
Was waiting for someone to say this, she went on like a 2 minute tangent on why you shouldnt put cinnamon in soap
She is awesome
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
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.
@@sarina1234ful It frightens me that skin irritation is utilized for aesthetical reasons
@Capt Zack They use to use leeches for various medical procedures, wear Mercury makeup, and wash clothes with urine.
@@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
@@darianbarber3763 Leeches are still used for medical purposes though?
i didnt know tyler durden made science videos
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.