Part 1: "I dip my hand in a base most people know for melting skin, nothing happened" Part 2: "I washed my hands with soap, it burned"

So you are patient enough to let the soaps cure for 6 weeks, but so impatient that you couldn't let it sit overnight.

>"tried to clean out the slow cooker as best I could" >slow cooker used to make soap Buddy, you're already halfway there.

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.

After watching this channel for a while I've learned it revolves mostly around one phase, "but I was impatient so I..."

Still waiting for gaseous and plasma soap

Anyone else just turn Nile on low volume and fall asleep because his voice is surprisingly soothing..

Chemists: "please do not taste the samples" Geologists: "I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that"

a rubber spatula is excellent for getting a thick batter out of a bowl, or in this case, soap out of a slow cooker.

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.

I swear this guy is the Bob Ross of chemistry

1:08 - "Olive the oils"

where is my gas soap

6:09 looked like a giant impacted earwax extraction

It's all about the base

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

I liked that you explained the difference between the NaOH and KOH...always wondered what the benefits of each were

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.

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

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 :)

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.

i like the fluorescin part it was so incredible random

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.

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 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

Next episode: Soap flavoured beef soup using only a slow cooker and a knife

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!

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.

Gah. 6:00 reminded me of those videos of impacted earwax I somehow keep finding on youtube and watching for reasons I can't understand.

maybe do a video on how old fasioned blueprints were made. It was a chemical proces that resulted into prusian blue, it's quite interesting

you're doing a great job.... please do not stop doing this like ever....

I feel like "Other people have _____, but I was impatient..." sums up a lot of the ways you handle things

My dyslexic self thought the title said "Lemonade home soap" and i was confused

You should try adding silicone oil(dimethicone) to your soap to make a super-modern moisturizing lather

I started watching the this channel for all the pretty colors and now I get to learn things. thank you

I like the fact you use fluorescein to make everything! it's so cool!

Next team up with Cody's lab and make soap from Cesium Hydroxide

When you said you want to insert some music i was like "wait, I dont even realize that you dont use any music!"

you the new year so much better for me sitting here alone, thank you

This looks fun! Maybe I'll have to get some supplies and give this a try!

me: look, i made a cake. NILE:look ma, i made liquid soap AND bar soap

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.

“It took a while and it was honestly a pain.” This quote defines me.

Your videos make me more happy. It's so nice to watch them, both entertaining and educational :3

My man... Just get a silicone spatula. You're welcome 😄

Nobody, NileRed: I want a fluorescent liquid soap.

So much gold in the old vids😍

That was actually really educational to watch.

Given the virus situation, I'd love to see a video on how to make alcohol hand sanitser

in epoxy resins we use, the reaction speed doubles for every 20 C

i like how these soap making and alcohol making video's are recommended to me again

i appreciate your work to shareing the fun of chemistry ! Keep it up and hot!

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

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.

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.

As always, nice content, and great chemistry!!!!!!!

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Would love to see you remake this with the addition of SLS for that extra foamy-ness! :D

I like how part 2 was uploaded before part 1

Oh how relevant this is now

If you make soap out of pumpkin seed oil will it keep its dichromatism?

Making transparent soap is also fun, and you cant go wrong playing with solvents and such :) making your own soap is an awesome experience!

Awesome extra shot with the fluorescine

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.

3:25 forbidden apple sauce

OMG CONGRATS ON 2 MIL!!!!

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.

Could you extract melatonine? Thanks! Love your channel

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?

He says "don't taste it" but it looks soooo delicious!

This is great, thanks for your effort!

1:10 "all of the oils" sounds like olive the oils

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.

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.

dude ur gonna be so clean

Is it possible to do this without borax? It's not available here and extremely tightly controlled because European Union

I feel like this video might get more views considering the current circumstances.

you really inspire me dude

The fact that AvE and you both come from Canada makes me value it as a country so much more ;)

* stirring soap with a spoon * -> "I'm using brute force !" 😁

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.

your final products look so realistic, straight-up home-made stuff ☺ I liked them except that the liquid soap was only suitable for dishes

For goo and slop like this use a rubber spatula. It can remove nearly all the material on the sides and edges.

How are clear liquid soap made?

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.

love your videos. they are entertaining and also relaxing and help me fall asleep

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.

you should make a video of you making slime and explaining how it gets stretchy and stuff

Recommended now. I wonder why 😂

Redoing this rn in 2020 would be an awesome.

I did a fun fluoracine extraction and demonstration for my AP chem project back in the good ol’ days🤤

9:40 I would recommend a black background.

6:07 earwax...

Exciting Soap Adventure is my new favorite show.

"so we're back for part two of my soap-making adventure" sounds so hilariously sarcastic.

If you use cesium hydroxide will it make gaseous soap?

that green stuff looks like my hair 😳 its a kind of dye that glows under blacklight

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

so I watched part 1 a few days ago but forgot to watch the second part. just remembered to watch it juts now. then I opened KZfaq and its literally the first vid on my recommended page lmao