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Building off 15 previous videos, I make soap from scratch starting from rocks, wood ash, lake water, and a variety of plant and animal fats I've collected so far; launching our newest series on detergents and toiletries.
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Today, getting what you need is as easy as a trip to the store. From food to clothing, energy, medicine, and so much more, Andy George will discover what it takes to make everything from scratch. His mission is to understand the complex processes of manufacturing that is often taken for granted and do it all himself. Each week he’s traveling the world to bypass the modern supply chain in order to harvest raw materials straight from the source. Along the way, he’s answering the questions you never thought to ask.
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Ok

[@kittyboy1920]

Oooooooo could you make Wazo nuddles from scratch

[@michaelweiske702]

But how do I make a razor from scratch?

[@May-zk6vz]

make a knife from scratch

[@Channel-jj4gp]

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.

[@patriciahamel5674]

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]

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.

[@Watoosi13]

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

[@Yaminakai]

Also Potasium based soaps are also known as liquid sopas so only sodium based are good there.

[@emmabroughton2039]

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.

[@returnofthetwats190]

that is a hilariously horrifying description

[@LouiseVanNiekerk-c5v]

😂

[@jerbear7952]

Ahhh a little frsh soap never hurt any.....oh GOOODDDDDD IT BURNSSSS

[@blastedm6741]

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

[@kolinmartz]

I mean. Technically you never really clean anything. You’re just making something else dirty.

[@oukid2633]

Andy your the reason why i started learning chemistry and cooking. Inspiring young scientists, thank u.

[@immanismjr5606]

you're

[@alexanderhamilton7753]

Good on you mate, chemistry is the best!

[@HipposHateWater]

You'eir'dn't've*

[@ktwooxxx8906]

HipposHateWater 😂😂😂

[@MohdAradi]

nile red, nurdrage

[@tarot1136]

the lmost important are not the gloves but eye protection : you can recover from a skin chemical brun but not your eyes

[@aidanyelsma7762]

Yeah. Imagine the chemical burn from Fight Club, but on your eyes. Ouch.

[@tarot1136]

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

[@goudjeswimmy7850]

He's wearing glasses already so his eyes are quite protected

[@superwild1]

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.

[@tarot1136]

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

[@Maaaarz]

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

[@erikvoorhies5397]

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.

[@erikvoorhies5397]

Learning that occurred in less than 180k views... -180,000%

[@vasilvass]

Erik Voorhies Dude chiiiiiilllll, the man is just making a frreakin bar of soap.

[@vasilvass]

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.

[@ironlion45]

Tip on the quicklime: Shells! Oyster are an American favorite for making quicklime. But most mollusc shells will do the trick.

[@blackanimecat2]

If you want to see a lady manufacture coldpress soap into beautiful bars for a living, Royalty Soaps is a great channel to see.

[@sarastott6686]

Yes!! I actually got to this video from her most recent video lol! It showed this in my suggestions!

[@stamasd8500]

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.

[@juliettecheng8851]

Video posted 36 minutes ago, comment posted 16 hours ago?!?!?!?

[@stamasd8500]

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[@juliettecheng8851]

stamasd ohhhhhhhhhhhh okay I was confused

[@yaboiaaron7622]

Whoa this a soap making expert over here

[@stamasd8500]

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.

[@cholulahotsauce6166]

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.

[@cooleslaw]

Soap is made of the stuff it's supposed to remove. Ironic.

[@maggey5501]

It´s not really ironic. In Chemistry there is a saying that goes as follows: Like dissolves like. or: similar dissolves similar.

[@nutmeg9005]

Magge y can you elaborate on the saying i dont necessarily understand it

[@maggey5501]

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.

[@BennyFouFou]

Rajan It’s how most antibiotics and medication is made, and how they find the cures to illnesses

[@blightyx7142]

Jake D. Think of a vaccine. A vaccine carries the disease in it in order to prevent it/destroy it.

[@anubispup4760]

I always like making soap from wood ash, coarse sand, and walnut oils.

[@tiusso]

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.

[@vivianeb90]

Thank you for not being afraid to get messy and then not hiding it from us. Thanks for being real.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Potash is mined in Saskatchewan, a Canadian province. You could try and get some from there.

[@reaganharder1480]

If I'm not mistaken, there is one country (yes, country) in the world that mines more potash than Saskatchewan. Unless that was uranium...

[@constancemiller3753]

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.

[@pragnje]

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! :)

[@Pakoaradillas]

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!!!

[@sadradehbashi3598]

That girl with green hair has one of the manliest forearms in the entire internet.

[@miipmiipmiip]

Dude, don't say that.

[@sadradehbashi3598]

@@miipmiipmiip i don't give a shit

[@Sarah239A]

My favorite oil to use when making soap is avocado oil, it doesn't sud that much but it's great for the skin

[@bre_adnan8404]

I LOVE SOAP, I ACTUALLY COLLECT BARS OF SOAP. THANK YOU.

[@peterandreash2841]

V3RY NOICE

[@bre_adnan8404]

OK. THANKS.

[@dee5298]

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.

[@bre_adnan8404]

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?

[@bre_adnan8404]

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.

[@cherahsBroll]

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.

[@aidanyelsma7762]

This is like a not-incredibly-messed-up version of fight club.

[@kdam39]

first rule of fight club

[@pvanukoff]

Or a very-incredibly-messed-up version of fight club :)

[@SupremeShuckle]

What fight club?

[@crazycodplayer11]

Jacob C exactly

[@cca1834]

@@kdam39 oh shit

[@lukepippin4781]

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.

[@freakshow7625]

Human fat makes the best soap

[@nicholaswilkowski632]

freakshow 762 and human hair makes moist bread. In China they use human hair to help create the soft texture.

[@atriyakoller136]

I am quite afraid to ask how you found that out

[@IOSFifaUploads]

from fight club

[@자시엘-l1s]

Nicholas Wilkowski not in china but every damn country And it's not actual hair in it :)

[@nicholaswilkowski632]

jasiel delgado not every country, its the proteins in your hair. US FDA does not permit it

[@allisonyurchak8153]

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.

[@rachelhall3892]

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!

[@stamasd8500]

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).

[@Kannot2023]

@@stamasd8500 or at the end of soap production add vinegar, this was the traditional receipt

[@skotwilt]

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!! 🍀

[@keknegenkai2700]

We learned of making soap in chemistry in my Biotechnology studies I can't wait to try it myself

[@R3troZone]

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.

[@deddrz2549]

And Dr Stone made it look so easy... Glad I got to see how to go from calcium carbonate to a finished cleaning product!

[@Rubedo0725]

Dr. Stone already thought me this...

[@xneri772]

I was looking for the comment with Dr. Stone reference

[@IgorSouza95]

This channel is sooo underrated. It should have at least 10x the followers it has.

[@GodNops]

You should do basic electronics from scratch. Like try to make a motor from scratch

[@stamasd8500]

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.

[@ThePinkBinks]

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! 💜

[@matthewposton3243]

I love your channel so much

[@AdamDrawsStuff]

Wow this was so in depth! I had no idea soap was such a complicated chemical process. Great video!

[@joitaylor3765]

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!!

[@crypticcorgi8280]

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.

[@keithlll6768]

Why does this guy only have 500k subs?

[@micahphilson]

If I knew, I'd be able to sell that kind of information for millions of dollars.

[@keithlll6768]

Micah Philson good for you?👍👍👍😅

[@rachelhall3892]

Right!?

[@micahphilson]

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.

[@tonyjohnson5669]

Google algorithm. It prioritizes you tubers who submit new stuff multiple times a week.

[@jomiar309]

You're living my dream, man! I have long wanted to go out and make everything from scratch! I admire you.

[@MegaAwsomegirl101]

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...

[@emilychb6621]

Especially when blending strong bases with a blender! That's like the quickest way to damage your cornea.

[@timesthree5757]

Only if he wants to. You can't make people do anything they don't want to do.

[@ItsThatSheep]

I like how this expanding to more like a business. Like it would be so great to work for for HTME

[@Ecapsora]

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

[@rdizzy1]

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.

[@bjflinn1]

@@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

[@iborn4music]

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.

[@PumpkinCarvers]

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

[@palebluedot4015]

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?

[@debravogt7139]

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!

[@xxcoldembersxx863]

I am happy you have finally uploaded

[@kivvyoh]

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

[@nadianano-pm1zp]

*Soap* 🧼 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.

[@AyanaSioux]

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.

[@macnchessplz]

Your comment answered my question about the plantain ash.

[@j4c0bu5gal3]

Girl with green hair need to join the dollar shave club

[@candyluna2929]

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.

[@Herrbink]

Donna is gorgeous, she has a positive future in your series, l think.

[@reginamb]

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.

[@reginamb]

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.

[@tuts351]

Love the animation ❤️ it's refreshing.

[@preacherjohn]

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 :)

[@sesamtoast9431]

Did I understand right? A mixture of oil and ash equals soap?

[@theflerffyburr7919]

Fatty oil and ash

[@Longlius]

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.

[@lykacabatay9343]

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 🙂

[@Gum1b3ar]

Those Interns are cute af especially Donna she's cute as hell 💟

[@knappertsbusch]

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.

[@Greaseoverwatch]

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.

[@emilcarr7190]

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.

[@guachingman]

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.

[@lmsubman243]

Now i understand why i never see a "bee taking a bath!"

[@bjflinn1]

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

[@Kei280]

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.

[@ashknoecklein]

It's cool to see you've got interns!

[@victoriaeads6126]

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!

[@Anastas1786]

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.

[@shaz_1466]

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.

[@lmsubman243]

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!"

[@kevinbyrne4538]

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).

[@RimanDingo]

Cookin' up soap in the crockpot...

[@stamasd8500]

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.

[@S2s2pid]

My bar bad and bubbly

[@joshd2013]

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 :)

[@Clipworldrus]

Josh D i

[@benpatterson4452]

A little kiln/ ceramic tip, for the future. The ceramic bowl broke in the kiln, because it was heated too quickly. This is known as "Dunting". Ceramics are generally heated and cooled slowly, due to their structure not transferring energy that fast. So if you need to do something like that again, in the future, use a clay that has an "Open Body". This is usually an underfired ceramic, where the particles are not fully locked together. Specialized "Raku" clays work well, as does any high temperature clay, that has not been taken anywhere near it's maturity point.

[@spencerwells4523]

you should make pancakes and syrup from scratch!

[@MeevoMarz]

Be already has all the ingredients from scratch

[@IonutNedelcu]

Pro Tip: make yourself a Romanian friend and go there in the autumn when they make soap in the countryside. In some places, they still make the traditional soap and plenty of other things. I think you'd like it.

[@stamasd8500]

Ionut Nedelcu I"m Romanian and I make soap. Though I do it in my kitchen on a small scale and only recently. I don't know of the countryside traditional methods :)

[@20ola02]

next up on How To Make Everything: how to make crack

[@rdizzy1]

Take cocaine, add in water and baking soda, cook slowly until it hardens into rocks without burning it.

[@InsanePigeon]

@@rdizzy1 but he's gotta make the cocaine too.

[@sirnikkel6746]

@@InsanePigeon there are really educational videos from documetals of the FARC

[@subashchandra9557]

Not gonna lie... those soaps look reaaaally appetizing.

[@badupre039]

cody has gotten so much better with his science! loving this growth!

[@AylaASMR]

IKEA’s hotplates mights be a little more easy to clean lol

[@AylaASMR]

Oh they are induction cooktops. Still easier to clean 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@ryanmcentire5704]

Ikea -boy- girl

[@isaakwelch3451]

I remember making soap as a kid. Mine didn't hardly lather but it cleaned well and always made your cuts tingle... it lasted me a very long time, likely because it didn't lather and was a giant bar.

[@BlueTJLP]

Oh god, I'm not exactly excited for the razor video...be careful.

[@ChristianBlandford]

BlueTJ it’s his way of making a living chill

[@salazaralyssa]

without sponsors, ads, and anything else that conjures money, he won’t have enough funding for these videos

[@UrFavSangheili]

@@salazaralyssaI think they meant they're not excited for the "making a razor from scratch" video, not the sponsorship.

[@jeffystevens]

1:09 *YEET!!!!*

[@imdivyamenon]

dude, use the lye calculator and Superfat the recipe. Use 20% coconut oil (cleansing) 5% castor oil (lather)... Everything else was bang on!

[@bjflinn1]

Can't use a lye calculator if you don't know the actual purity of your lye. Just doesn't work that way

[@ka1ebsauce]

The sponser timer is literally the smartest thing ive ever seen

[@nutmeg9005]

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

[@AaronBatteenA3]

Use your more caustic soaps to make laundry soap. It works fabulously and is cheaper than buying laundry soap. I combine equal volume measures grated soap, washing soda, and borax. Use 1-2 I Tbsp per batch of laundry.

[@blu1632]

KZbin LET ME GO TO BED!

[@paigeperry166]

Love his reaction of none of the other things did that

[@avebb_]

*S U D S*

[@carmenbarrera9878]

YAAAAAAAAS!!!! Been waiting for this one!! I make soap, so, excited to see his process......

[@ddysprks]

I admire the lengths you go out of curiosity and experimentation. Well Done!

[@jakeparkens3690]

Dude miss green hair is awesome

[@JerryAsano]

Love your interns. They added something fresh and entertaining to the video.

[@therealharoon6664]

Do how to make ink then try to use it in a printer.

[@jeremyjw]

if i got stuck time travelling to the past i think being a soap maker would be a welcomed profession

[@andersonkurk3976]

Can you make soap out of krabby patties?

[@belhabchioussama4234]

by far one of the best chanels on youtube

[@tardo5362]

that woman is a werewolf!!

[@betterthanyourmom]

She needs a Dollar Shave Club subscription.

[@DrDuckMD]

Who would complain about the smell of campfire smoke. It’s such a good smell!

[@keknegenkai2700]

I think the reactions of the girls are interesting to observe. They have a certain thought of how soap should be because of modern soap. But soap didn't used to be so bubbly like it is nowadays. It is after years of development of the chemical industry that soap got its properties it now has. My mom used to grow up with soap similar to those in the video.

[@chaewons7484]

Guess vegans would have to make vegan soap now

[@raihanislam912]

Cloudeeplayss you can make it with plants...

[@djawnsjhilson218]

They do

[@LavVenizalda]

Why are you so obsessed with vegans pal? Who cares

[@bennn2592]

Im surprised at your ability to make unintended messes, good job 👌👌👌