Really cool video! Try adding salt to it to make it harder: In my experience of soap making salt based soap hardening worked best with a combination of 97% hardwood ash 3% pine ash mixture which are much very potassium rich where I live, so I'm sure Your pure sodium hydroxide would make it even harder since I cant really control wood ash. I just dissolve a couple pinches of salt into the water per finished liter of soap.
@@margitvarganemunkacsi9700 allowing it to "cure" for a month or so, as well as heating the soap when reacting (hot processing) helps make it harder too. Some additives, as well as different oils can make it set harder too. There are soap making websites that go into ratios and types of oils to use to make a harder soap, more bubbles, etc. Soap making is fun and easy.
vid suggestion: Na soap is normal soap, K soap is liquid soap, Li soap stops your garage door from squeaking (white lithium grease). But what secrets are Rb and Cs soap hiding? Or other cations like group 2 metals and ammonium.
I love how we get to see all of Cody's different phases, from mineral extraction, to mashroom growing/tasting then bees, and now soap. Wish I had the same energy.
@Higgs Bonbon Yes same here. I hope that someday I could, it is just awful to maybe wait like 30 years for homesteading/small family farm. This world has not been kind to a lot of us unfortunately 🤷♂🤷♂
I've used beeswax in soap before, usually up to 5% of the fat bill - to make it harder. Though making the soap harder is not a problem, coconut oil gives a really hard soap too if used by itself (and also has much better cleaning properties). In a regular soap bill, beeswax will saponify slower than the other fats so if you use a regular "superfat" of 5%, a lot of that will be comprised of leftover beeswax. Unreacted beeswax in soap will give it a moisturizing effect as it will coat the skin with a thin layer of itself and delay the evaporation of water. It's also why it's used in lip balms (together with things like cocoa butter). (edit) In fact, I've just played a bit in SoapCalc with some recipes, and a soap made from 50% beeswax and 50% coconut oil will again be very hard, but also have much better cleansing properties that 100% beeswax, with all parameters except for hardness falling right in the desirable zones. Just in case you want to try this recipe instead for your "fossils", because I think it will give you overall a better soap.
Cody coming back after a month of silence with "hematite" on his hands, sporting durable new protection glasses, telling us he's gotten into soap making. Anyone else getting Fight Club vibes?
@@bob2859 Exactly, and I'm pretty sure using plastic beads has already been banned in a lot of marketplaces. Using biodegradable things like walnut shells is better, but if they could just slowly dissolve completely like harder bits of soap I think that would be even better.
The flakes of beeswax soap did seem to generate more foam, probably because of the bigger surface area. So the grinded up beeswax soap could maybe also be used directly as soap. Though, one might be wasting more of this soap, since the undissolved soap can be washed away.
A wax-related experiment suggestion I've had for a while: since paraffin wax is a combination of alkanes (approx. C20 to C40), would it be possible to separate a block of undyed, unscented paraffin wax into each individual different hydrocarbon component, without cracking any of those molecules? It'd be interesting to see just how accurate those measurements are, as well as test the exact physical properties of each higher alkane. The same could potentially be done for petroleum jelly as to ascertain the chemical composition of that, since I wasn't able to find anything conclusive.
Refineries do not use distillation for heavy oils and waxes because of pyrolysis they use solvent refining, crystalizing the wax out of a chilled solution. This removes most of the oil components but it is not great for a narrow target, heck I'm not even sure how well it can be tuned for isolating alkanes from cyclic compounds. (They are actually trying to remove the wax from the oil, not the oil from the wax. The wax is less in demand.) There is increased use of vacuum distillation these days to shift the crossover molecular weight a bit higher, but it isn't enough for common paraffin or microcrystalline waxes, at least not on industrial scale. You would need a rather extreme vacuum as far as distillation setups go and very careful control over both that vacuum and temperature to maintain the target separation. It may be better to find another method like very targeted crystallization conditions.(including solvent selected for the right amount of polararity to discriminate cyclic hydrocarbons)
@@Marco-nr4wy The branching actually has very minor effect on vapor pressure, it is almost all about molecular mass. Though branching structures may have larger effect on freezing/crystallization point and on reactivity and solubility.
@@mytech6779 There is an interesting technique to separate n-alkanes from hydrocarbon mixtures. Urea forms a crystal lattice with "tubes" in it these have the right size for n-alkanes to fit in them. Branched alkanes don't fit because they are to bulky for these tubes. This property allows urea to form adducts with n-alkanes which allows the extraction of them.
Heard a lot of your ideas, Cody, all incredible, but you should keep this one! “Fossils” breaking out of soap is like a 10/10 business idea, it has everything! Seeing all these different schools of knowledge come together and mix with that spark of ingenuity and creativity, just wow!
A few years ago I was doing the same thing! I was replicating geodes with dipping different mixtures of soap (at the time I was using glycerin) with different colour, scent and textures. I'd make balls and split them afterwards. Still have some pictures if you would be interested! Good luck with the venture :)
Interesting. KOH gives softer, more smearable soaps, maybe it would make beeswax soap closer to normal? If so, you could make totally natural potash soap from ash and beeswax
Came here to say this. If sodium makes solid soaps, and potassium makes liquid soaps, what will potassium beeswax soap look like? And since this is Cody, obviously gotta eventually make rubidium and cesium beeswax soaps.
@@kdawg3484 And lithium. Lithium tallow soap is used for bearing grease. Well, specifically the fatty acid 12-stearate is most common, they don't want the glycerol component of raw tallow. And "lithium complex" just has two or three different fatty acids. Its pretty water resistant compared to sodium though, same goes for calcium soaps.
I got into soapmaking as a bit of pandemic hobby in late spring 2020. Ended up spending quite a few months messing around with oil blends, comparing ratios, seeing what one type does better than another by comparison, rather then relying on shitty descriptions online (boy there are some shitty soap sites with bad recipies. Stuff that would go rancid in months because of absurdly high linoleic content, etc) The amount of time that you can put in on just the chemistry side if you care to is amazing. I havent used bees wax, but longer chain unsaturated fats that are solid or waxy at room temp, boy to they go off fast. When you showed the temp I had a brief panic moment "thats going to seize instantly" Because I forgot hot process was a thing, because I dont ever mess with it, and I havent touched cold process since the end of 2020 because I ended up making enough soaps for myself, a few friends, and my parents to last for 2 years...
The main thing I learned regarding chemistry during my Biochemistry major earning was that: everything has a chemistry and every inch of it is going to be 5x more complicated than you originally thought. Perfect example: concrete. Original guess was its just a set amount of small rocks in a solution that sets into a solid. Hell no. That stuff can be far more complicated depending on time to set, strength of the concrete after setting, the chemical properties of the concrete components, the effects of the environment on those properties, the lifespan of the concrete, etc. I could not stand to be a chemical engineer 😂. It would drive me insane.
Seems like the beeswax will make great fossils than for your "normal" soap. I bet you can soften that beeswax slightly as well. I also think it would probably make for some extremely durable soap, something like survival soap hahaha. Great for any wasteland wanderer! Great video as always Cody!
@codyslab 7 years ago I started watching your bee series. After awile I moved back to the cuntryside and I found a bee guru here that holds courses in top bar hives and after a course I was sold. this year I built three hives of my own and they are all thriving. I am soo glad you made the series since it was a huge stepping point for me to start bee keeping. greetings from Sweden
"Hope you enjoyed" Let me just tell you Cody, you don't need to hope. I definitely did. I don't know why I found your experiment today so hilarious yet still intriguing. Can't wait to see the soap fossils.
There used to be a product to soap sliver recycling that was basically a spring-loaded grater in the bottom of a box which would grate the slivers to make useable shavings for hand washing. Might be useful if you can find or make one for the beeswax soap.
Cody I just want to sincerely thank you and commend you for being a great youtuber over the many years. So many youtubers sell out and completely change their personality and are completely focused on money that they lose who they are. Thank you for staying true, and not becoming obnoxious and greedy. Your videos have always improved, and never have gotten worse. Thank you for making great content
I've had the 'taste test' for leftover lye go very wrong, when there actually was some. A drop of water on the soap, a few seconds for it to rest on the surface and absorb any alkali, followed by a strip of pH paper... That's more my speed.
Haha I sware rocks soap chemistry must be a natural progression glad to see you are doing well Cody a bit worried about a few of you TH-cam guys lately vids have slowed down thought you may have given up like nurdrage
Looks like a great deal of experimentation and recipe transcription required to create consistent results. Sounds like a fun and rewarding hobby. Could even turn into a revenue stream if you felt like it. Chicken Ranch Natural Beeswax Soaps.
Would be interesting to see how this works for something like a phonograph record. The so called ''wax'' cylinders that were used early on were actually a type of soap that contained aluminum in the recipe I seem to recall.
There are thousands upon thousands of soap charts and recipes on the internet, so it should be easy to hit the desired hardness in only a couple of tries. A normal "old school hard" bar of soap (think of something you'd get in the army in the 50s) only contains a few percent of bees was soap. The rest is lard, coconut and olive oil.
I wonder what else it could be used for. I imagine there are applications in which a very hard soap could be very useful. I can't speak to the power of the soap, but maybe there are applications for cleaning appliances/dishes? Something where you wouldn't want the soap to dissolve quickly and want it to resist some force.
dishwashing/clothes washing machines might be a good example, as it seems to also be generating little ammounts of foam, which is required for this appliances
I think what would be awesome for you would be a lathe and mill to build all sorts of custom components. Maybe soap moulds, extruders, structural stuff, brackets to hold things together, etc Or cheaper with 3d printing. Personally I dont believe I have the time for it but I think since youre one of the legit youtube channels out there so you can afford to undertake these things
With harder soap fats you're supposed to "superfat" them, AKA add more fat than the typical Sodium Hydroxide to fat ratio. This typically makes for a softer soap, though I'm not exactly sure about how much it would work for pure beeswax. Though this is also generally a good thing to do in order to assure there's no leftover Sodium Hydroxide!
perhaps a rounder shape would remove the hardness issues, and an increase in surface area would improve the creation of lather/bubbles perhaps a golfball shape, round and with additional surface area?
Those little shavings would be cool as an abrasive. I've seen some soap bars use mildly abrasive particles to help with scrubbing. Could make for a fun sandstone soap.
Apart from giving me fight club vibes, you could add the flakes of bee's wax soap as an exfoliating substance in a a softer soap substrate. This is usually done with left over ground coffee or something, but then you just end up with a ton of ground coffee down your sink and you are back to square 1 ( they say it's good for the enviroment as they are recycling the coffee grounds, in reality they are just selling them to you twice), at least this way the exfoliating particles are actually soap too!
Back in high school in my advanced class, I had to do a capstone chemistry project and I chose to make biodiesel. In all honesty, soap making and biodiesel are incredibly similar chemical reactions, and in making biodiesel you often make soap too, so you have to wash the diesel to remove it all. I did it with a bunch of different oils, but since I was in highschool my equipment was sub-par and I ended up with mostly soap. Since beeswax is a fatty acid, I'm betting you could make biodiesel with it. It probably wouldn't be very good, but theoretically you could.
I was playing around with soapmaking recently with some expired MCT oil I had around, and noticed that beeswax was on the sap chart. Was wondering what that would turn out like, it's really too bad it doesn't carry over the nice beeswax smell. Lanolin was also on the chart and I don't know what to expect from saponifying that since it's so goopy and sticky,
Always nice to see you back in business. Your gardening series really inspired me to grow something too. Wouldn't you talk about the reaction when you made the beeswax a soap and it just puffs as a foam in a second?
I can't see Cody selling many bars of this type of soap, it has no fragrance, and extremely user unfriendly for those with skin. Still nice experiment. Maybe good for soap carving ?
You really have the habit of bringing me on the right track when my research into a topic has led me nowhere. I'm sure if I studied chemistry, it'd be much easier, but now I'm confident I can make a low carbon impact vegetarian soap! Thanks a lot!
Hey Cody. I always like to see bees and bee-themed videos. I found the link to this one on Twitter by chance as it is unlisted. Would you have listed it in one of your channels sooner or later, or will I have to watch out for sneaky Twitter releases too?
If the last shot in the video are the items you're going to hide in your bars of soap so that it can slowly be exposed as you use it, I think these are good but I think that the more detail in the "artifact" the better people will like it. If it's just the general shape of fossils I think people might not appreciate them as much. JMO mind you... *: )*
What I've learned from this video is that beeswax can actually look a lot like earwax at certain stages of this whole process shown here. Very interesting!
In a far distant future, intelligent mice will be marveling over archaeological wonders of random fossils found in the soap deposits discovered in Cody's basement.
Big difference between bee's wax and fat is that fat is mostly fatty esters of glycerol (triglycerides), whereas wax is mostly fatty esters of fatty alcohols. So after saponification, your soap should have quite a high content of fatty alcohols, which will remain much more hydrophobic than the fatty acid salts portion.
Sharp soap! For when you need more tears in your washing procedure If you grind this up really fine, could you add it to the soap mixture so late in the process that it doesnt re-melt, leaving you with a graininess in the final soap bar? You could potentially make a bar with beeswax soap exfoliant in it
Can we get a mine update you said you would keep doing it off camera or make your own off camera I used to watch it when I was little now I’m 18 and I came back after a few years and I was really looking forward to it
You could make the beeswax soap into coarse granules and then incorporate those into your softer bar of soap. Might be a nice exfoliant or grease scrub.
My girlfriend got hung up on you saying a byproduct from an insect is considered an "Animal Fat basicly". Basically ruined trying to share the video but I still enjoyed it and glad to see more content.
The doctor squatch soap sounds like they’re trying to sell you on how good it tastes when they read off the ingredients lol. I think it’s to marinade us for the sasquatches.
Nice, I make homemade soap too :) Very cool experiment and a question I've had myself, thanks for the well-documented engaging presentation. I think you've just made the hardest soap ever, I expected the rock-like description, but not glass! It sounds like demon soap, "hurts your hands, feels like glass, takes forever rubbing to suds up.... which also means it'll last forever! mwahahhahaa"
For those that want to see it done with potassium hydroxide: th-cam.com/video/KQQy6hKAC-A/w-d-xo.html
Thanks man, haven't seen you post in a while - hoped you were doing okay.
Really cool video! Try adding salt to it to make it harder: In my experience of soap making salt based soap hardening worked best with a combination of 97% hardwood ash 3% pine ash mixture which are much very potassium rich where I live, so I'm sure Your pure sodium hydroxide would make it even harder since I cant really control wood ash. I just dissolve a couple pinches of salt into the water per finished liter of soap.
@@margitvarganemunkacsi9700 allowing it to "cure" for a month or so, as well as heating the soap when reacting (hot processing) helps make it harder too. Some additives, as well as different oils can make it set harder too. There are soap making websites that go into ratios and types of oils to use to make a harder soap, more bubbles, etc.
Soap making is fun and easy.
Really nice 1 Cody, its like a block of plastic!!! =)
Or, beeswax soap with a pumice; something abrasive to clean grease, etc..?
vid suggestion: Na soap is normal soap, K soap is liquid soap, Li soap stops your garage door from squeaking (white lithium grease). But what secrets are Rb and Cs soap hiding? Or other cations like group 2 metals and ammonium.
Second this
This dude's asking the right questions
Rb makes gaseous soap?
Cs makes plasma soap?
I was wondering from the get-go if he would be using KOH. NaOH just seemed... off.
@@-danR Using KOH with beeswax, would that change the hardness? Why is it harder in the first place?
Bare hands for playing with mercury, googles and gloves for playing with soap. Never change, Cody!
Lye is far more likely to cause you serious injury than metallic mercury, though.
I mean, he did add water to lye
Yeah? Mercury won't dissolve your hands, neither will it risk spitting lye in your face like adding lye to hot wax might have done.
Mercury doesn't dissolve human tissue
having lye squirt in your eye would be hurtin', you'd cry.
"I want to make soap that's textured like a rock"
"It's like washing my hands with an actual rock"
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hahaha yeah
Wait till you get soap stones.
I love how we get to see all of Cody's different phases, from mineral extraction, to mashroom growing/tasting then bees, and now soap. Wish I had the same energy.
@Higgs Bonbon I feel your pain
@Higgs Bonbon Yes same here. I hope that someday I could, it is just awful to maybe wait like 30 years for homesteading/small family farm. This world has not been kind to a lot of us unfortunately 🤷♂🤷♂
@@Kim-e4g4w we are not kind to ourselves... ;)
Not to mention the not bathing phase while wearing copper chain mail. Looks like he just did a 180 from that haha
@Higgs Bonbon hey, soap is very doable
I've used beeswax in soap before, usually up to 5% of the fat bill - to make it harder. Though making the soap harder is not a problem, coconut oil gives a really hard soap too if used by itself (and also has much better cleaning properties). In a regular soap bill, beeswax will saponify slower than the other fats so if you use a regular "superfat" of 5%, a lot of that will be comprised of leftover beeswax. Unreacted beeswax in soap will give it a moisturizing effect as it will coat the skin with a thin layer of itself and delay the evaporation of water. It's also why it's used in lip balms (together with things like cocoa butter).
(edit) In fact, I've just played a bit in SoapCalc with some recipes, and a soap made from 50% beeswax and 50% coconut oil will again be very hard, but also have much better cleansing properties that 100% beeswax, with all parameters except for hardness falling right in the desirable zones. Just in case you want to try this recipe instead for your "fossils", because I think it will give you overall a better soap.
TIL there is a soap recipe calculator that tells you how good your soap will be
Cody coming back after a month of silence with "hematite" on his hands, sporting durable new protection glasses, telling us he's gotten into soap making. Anyone else getting Fight Club vibes?
We don't talk about...
When the glove's are gone and a scare shows on the back of his hand then Tyler is in the room.
If I die young...
@@user-yx7dp2pl8t What could the apostrophe possibly be for?
@@BodywiseMustard not sure
The harder soap flakes could be a good exfoliating agent to add to softer soaps that won't clog up sewage plants. Looking forward to more!
Good idea. May be able to take the role of those little plastic beads too.
@@bob2859 Exactly, and I'm pretty sure using plastic beads has already been banned in a lot of marketplaces. Using biodegradable things like walnut shells is better, but if they could just slowly dissolve completely like harder bits of soap I think that would be even better.
Came here to say the same.
I like charcoal personally but that’s a damned good idea.
I don’t think a description of a smell has so strongly evoked the sense of it in my mind as, “freshly sanded wood that had spoiled milk on it”
The flakes of beeswax soap did seem to generate more foam, probably because of the bigger surface area. So the grinded up beeswax soap could maybe also be used directly as soap. Though, one might be wasting more of this soap, since the undissolved soap can be washed away.
or was it not yet cured thus softer and more soapy? (cure might be wrong word)
Maybe you could use small particles of beeswax soap in place of those "exfoliating" microplastic beads.
How did you comment 16 hours ago but this vid was posted 6 hours ago
@@bang4915 Patreon gets early access....
@@bang4915 Cody often posts a link on Twitter while the video is still hidden.
That was really interesting. Love the idea of the fossils emerging as you use the soap.
A wax-related experiment suggestion I've had for a while: since paraffin wax is a combination of alkanes (approx. C20 to C40), would it be possible to separate a block of undyed, unscented paraffin wax into each individual different hydrocarbon component, without cracking any of those molecules? It'd be interesting to see just how accurate those measurements are, as well as test the exact physical properties of each higher alkane. The same could potentially be done for petroleum jelly as to ascertain the chemical composition of that, since I wasn't able to find anything conclusive.
That sounds very challenging considering all the different alkanes present with different isomers
@@Marco-nr4wy Probably could be done by chromatography, seems to be some literature on related applications.
Refineries do not use distillation for heavy oils and waxes because of pyrolysis they use solvent refining, crystalizing the wax out of a chilled solution.
This removes most of the oil components but it is not great for a narrow target, heck I'm not even sure how well it can be tuned for isolating alkanes from cyclic compounds. (They are actually trying to remove the wax from the oil, not the oil from the wax. The wax is less in demand.)
There is increased use of vacuum distillation these days to shift the crossover molecular weight a bit higher, but it isn't enough for common paraffin or microcrystalline waxes, at least not on industrial scale. You would need a rather extreme vacuum as far as distillation setups go and very careful control over both that vacuum and temperature to maintain the target separation. It may be better to find another method like very targeted crystallization conditions.(including solvent selected for the right amount of polararity to discriminate cyclic hydrocarbons)
@@Marco-nr4wy The branching actually has very minor effect on vapor pressure, it is almost all about molecular mass. Though branching structures may have larger effect on freezing/crystallization point and on reactivity and solubility.
@@mytech6779 There is an interesting technique to separate n-alkanes from hydrocarbon mixtures. Urea forms a crystal lattice with "tubes" in it these have the right size for n-alkanes to fit in them. Branched alkanes don't fit because they are to bulky for these tubes. This property allows urea to form adducts with n-alkanes which allows the extraction of them.
Heard a lot of your ideas, Cody, all incredible, but you should keep this one!
“Fossils” breaking out of soap is like a 10/10 business idea, it has everything!
Seeing all these different schools of knowledge come together and mix with that spark of ingenuity and creativity, just wow!
Yeah, I think my nephews and nieces would love that.
A few years ago I was doing the same thing! I was replicating geodes with dipping different mixtures of soap (at the time I was using glycerin) with different colour, scent and textures. I'd make balls and split them afterwards. Still have some pictures if you would be interested! Good luck with the venture :)
Sounds cool! Lavender Amethyst
Interesting. KOH gives softer, more smearable soaps, maybe it would make beeswax soap closer to normal? If so, you could make totally natural potash soap from ash and beeswax
Too much fatty alcohols. I think it should be purified to work properly.
@@user255 it is possible, but still: who knows. If potassium would make it usable, it would be high end BeeSoap(R) XD
Came here to say this. If sodium makes solid soaps, and potassium makes liquid soaps, what will potassium beeswax soap look like? And since this is Cody, obviously gotta eventually make rubidium and cesium beeswax soaps.
@@kdawg3484 And lithium. Lithium tallow soap is used for bearing grease. Well, specifically the fatty acid 12-stearate is most common, they don't want the glycerol component of raw tallow. And "lithium complex" just has two or three different fatty acids. Its pretty water resistant compared to sodium though, same goes for calcium soaps.
@@mytech6779 I've always wondered if you could wash your hands with lithium soap/grease. Is it like soapy soap or is it just technically soap?
The smell is hard to describe...proceeds to give two very specific scents mixed together. Love you Cody.
I got into soapmaking as a bit of pandemic hobby in late spring 2020. Ended up spending quite a few months messing around with oil blends, comparing ratios, seeing what one type does better than another by comparison, rather then relying on shitty descriptions online (boy there are some shitty soap sites with bad recipies. Stuff that would go rancid in months because of absurdly high linoleic content, etc) The amount of time that you can put in on just the chemistry side if you care to is amazing. I havent used bees wax, but longer chain unsaturated fats that are solid or waxy at room temp, boy to they go off fast. When you showed the temp I had a brief panic moment "thats going to seize instantly" Because I forgot hot process was a thing, because I dont ever mess with it, and I havent touched cold process since the end of 2020 because I ended up making enough soaps for myself, a few friends, and my parents to last for 2 years...
The main thing I learned regarding chemistry during my Biochemistry major earning was that: everything has a chemistry and every inch of it is going to be 5x more complicated than you originally thought.
Perfect example: concrete.
Original guess was its just a set amount of small rocks in a solution that sets into a solid.
Hell no. That stuff can be far more complicated depending on time to set, strength of the concrete after setting, the chemical properties of the concrete components, the effects of the environment on those properties, the lifespan of the concrete, etc.
I could not stand to be a chemical engineer 😂. It would drive me insane.
Seems like the beeswax will make great fossils than for your "normal" soap. I bet you can soften that beeswax slightly as well. I also think it would probably make for some extremely durable soap, something like survival soap hahaha. Great for any wasteland wanderer! Great video as always Cody!
Well, if you add beeswax to other soap to harden it, I feel like you add other soaps to beeswax soap to soften it, just in opposite ratios
@codyslab 7 years ago I started watching your bee series. After awile I moved back to the cuntryside and I found a bee guru here that holds courses in top bar hives and after a course I was sold. this year I built three hives of my own and they are all thriving. I am soo glad you made the series since it was a huge stepping point for me to start bee keeping.
greetings from Sweden
"Hope you enjoyed" Let me just tell you Cody, you don't need to hope. I definitely did. I don't know why I found your experiment today so hilarious yet still intriguing. Can't wait to see the soap fossils.
I was just binging all of your bee keeping episodes yesterday, this is great!
This is exactly why I love your videos cody, you have an idea and just have to see if it's possible, it's great!
1:26 haha the look in your eyes when you said "All beeswax" is so pure :).
Never change Cody
There used to be a product to soap sliver recycling that was basically a spring-loaded grater in the bottom of a box which would grate the slivers to make useable shavings for hand washing. Might be useful if you can find or make one for the beeswax soap.
Cody I just want to sincerely thank you and commend you for being a great youtuber over the many years. So many youtubers sell out and completely change their personality and are completely focused on money that they lose who they are. Thank you for staying true, and not becoming obnoxious and greedy. Your videos have always improved, and never have gotten worse. Thank you for making great content
I love watching Cody. He makes me feel less intelligent and I appreciate that humbling
I skip the whole process and simply use bees to wash my hands. The hurting lets you know it's working!
😂😂😂😂😂😂 underrated comment of the year
thank you for uploading, its been insane to think ive been watching you for ten years. you really helped me love science
Nice to see you back Cody!! Thats a lot of soap lol
Never gets old seeing the camera setup specifically for eating something unusual.
I've had the 'taste test' for leftover lye go very wrong, when there actually was some. A drop of water on the soap, a few seconds for it to rest on the surface and absorb any alkali, followed by a strip of pH paper... That's more my speed.
Haha I sware rocks soap chemistry must be a natural progression glad to see you are doing well Cody a bit worried about a few of you TH-cam guys lately vids have slowed down thought you may have given up like nurdrage
Looks like a great deal of experimentation and recipe transcription required to create consistent results. Sounds like a fun and rewarding hobby. Could even turn into a revenue stream if you felt like it. Chicken Ranch Natural Beeswax Soaps.
I think you'll find The Chicken Ranch is a WHOLE different kettle of fish! But i bet they use a lot of soap! 😆
Love your videos Cody! You a a true scientist. Starting by asking questions out of curiosity. This makes people warm to delve more into sciences.
Would be interesting to see how this works for something like a phonograph record. The so called ''wax'' cylinders that were used early on were actually a type of soap that contained aluminum in the recipe I seem to recall.
The tongue: the ultimate chemical analyzer. Who needs indicator strips? It is always a pleasure to watch your videos. Always something to learn!
Considering the coarsness, I think smaller grains of it mixed into regular soap would make a pretty effectively lava soap competitor
Brilliant idea!
oatmeal is a common additive to soaps to produce an exfoliating surface.
I was thinking it'd exfoliate if incorporated into a softer soap.
I especially like this idea because the normal soap additives are *not* soap and that always seemed strange to me.
Plus i wonder if it would eventually dissolve instead of blocking up pipes like pumice
This is like the 5th time i googled something i havnt gooogled in years and you did it within a few months. Props my dude
I guess a mix of wax and a more traditional fat would result in something a tad softer? Time to experiment with ratios. :P
I was thinking the same
There are thousands upon thousands of soap charts and recipes on the internet, so it should be easy to hit the desired hardness in only a couple of tries. A normal "old school hard" bar of soap (think of something you'd get in the army in the 50s) only contains a few percent of bees was soap. The rest is lard, coconut and olive oil.
Oh you only give us the best. All my love, anything you make is fantastic
I wonder what else it could be used for. I imagine there are applications in which a very hard soap could be very useful. I can't speak to the power of the soap, but maybe there are applications for cleaning appliances/dishes? Something where you wouldn't want the soap to dissolve quickly and want it to resist some force.
dishwashing/clothes washing machines might be a good example, as it seems to also be generating little ammounts of foam, which is required for this appliances
I think what would be awesome for you would be a lathe and mill to build all sorts of custom components. Maybe soap moulds, extruders, structural stuff, brackets to hold things together, etc
Or cheaper with 3d printing.
Personally I dont believe I have the time for it but I think since youre one of the legit youtube channels out there so you can afford to undertake these things
With harder soap fats you're supposed to "superfat" them, AKA add more fat than the typical Sodium Hydroxide to fat ratio. This typically makes for a softer soap, though I'm not exactly sure about how much it would work for pure beeswax. Though this is also generally a good thing to do in order to assure there's no leftover Sodium Hydroxide!
Zero interest in soap making but I’m watching this for my guy Cody. Keep uploading bro.
I do love how Cody knows what it's like to touch a car battery with your tongue... classic.
Love your vids man. No matter what you talk about, I love it! Keep 'em coming!
After the Amazing series "Will it charcoal?", Cody's Lab presents "Will it soap?"
Clearly we must now charcoal the soap, finish burning it, and use its ashes to make more soap.
@@5467nick that would be nice
Very impressive soap collection! Thanks for gracing us with a new video!
Only Cody can say "I've gotten into making soap" without me immediately rolling my eyes.
Why would you roll your eyes?
Haha so much
Always a treat to see a vid form you Cody, no matter what it is! Keep it up!
Do you reckon you could make candles from them as well?
I'm sure I've heard of a beeswax candle before.
And it's good to see you again lad!
id think so. a flame is probably more resilient and if it takes longer to melt maybe youd get more tine out of them?
I think churches use 100% beeswax candles
beexwas soap candle
This video already was on chanel
Great to see another video. Most interesting project(s) as always!
This just reminds me of HTME making 100% wheat beer.
I've tasted wheat beer. I won't be bothering to again.
@@terryboyer1342 it's my favorite, but a 100% wheat beer would be something else.
perhaps a rounder shape would remove the hardness issues, and an increase in surface area would improve the creation of lather/bubbles
perhaps a golfball shape, round and with additional surface area?
Those little shavings would be cool as an abrasive. I've seen some soap bars use mildly abrasive particles to help with scrubbing. Could make for a fun sandstone soap.
Apart from giving me fight club vibes, you could add the flakes of bee's wax soap as an exfoliating substance in a a softer soap substrate. This is usually done with left over ground coffee or something, but then you just end up with a ton of ground coffee down your sink and you are back to square 1 ( they say it's good for the enviroment as they are recycling the coffee grounds, in reality they are just selling them to you twice), at least this way the exfoliating particles are actually soap too!
So happy your still doing videos man.. I've only seen mostly videos from 3-5 years ago.. 🙂
Why would you leave that unlisted? It's awesome!!
Back in high school in my advanced class, I had to do a capstone chemistry project and I chose to make biodiesel. In all honesty, soap making and biodiesel are incredibly similar chemical reactions, and in making biodiesel you often make soap too, so you have to wash the diesel to remove it all. I did it with a bunch of different oils, but since I was in highschool my equipment was sub-par and I ended up with mostly soap. Since beeswax is a fatty acid, I'm betting you could make biodiesel with it. It probably wouldn't be very good, but theoretically you could.
I was playing around with soapmaking recently with some expired MCT oil I had around, and noticed that beeswax was on the sap chart. Was wondering what that would turn out like, it's really too bad it doesn't carry over the nice beeswax smell. Lanolin was also on the chart and I don't know what to expect from saponifying that since it's so goopy and sticky,
You look a lot happier I’m glad to see it
I humbly propose a Cody'sLab tee shirt: "Well, we've definitely done SOMEthing to it..."
I love how every single of your videos is different from another in creative new ideas
Always nice to see you back in business. Your gardening series really inspired me to grow something too.
Wouldn't you talk about the reaction when you made the beeswax a soap and it just puffs as a foam in a second?
Man I had considered making soap out of some beeswax, now I'm glad I didn't. Thanks for the vid dude! I hope you're doing well.
I can't see Cody selling many bars of this type of soap, it has no fragrance, and extremely user unfriendly for those with skin. Still nice experiment. Maybe good for soap carving ?
Always happy to see a new upload Cody!
Will it charcoal?
"It also dissolves slowly which makes it less useful"
I thought that was the point. Success!
You really have the habit of bringing me on the right track when my research into a topic has led me nowhere.
I'm sure if I studied chemistry, it'd be much easier, but now I'm confident I can make a low carbon impact vegetarian soap! Thanks a lot!
Vegetarian soap? You mean most soaps?
@@jonathanodude6660 Yep
A new Cody's Lab video is always a pleasure !
The way Cody said "look at that! Bubbles!" made me smile
Scientific are just overgrown kids - some Scientist
Awesome experiment. Always wondered about this… as a fellow soap maker and bee keeper.
Hey Cody. I always like to see bees and bee-themed videos. I found the link to this one on Twitter by chance as it is unlisted. Would you have listed it in one of your channels sooner or later, or will I have to watch out for sneaky Twitter releases too?
You can support Cody on Patreon and get the links to unlisted videos firsthand
Cody has a beekeeping channel called CodysBlab I found not too long ago
"Freshly sanded wood..." I'd totally buy that "... that had spolled milk on it" Nope
If the last shot in the video are the items you're going to hide in your bars of soap so that it can slowly be exposed as you use it, I think these are good but I think that the more detail in the "artifact" the better people will like it. If it's just the general shape of fossils I think people might not appreciate them as much. JMO mind you... *: )*
What I've learned from this video is that beeswax can actually look a lot like earwax at certain stages of this whole process shown here. Very interesting!
You "rock" man! As usual, thinking out of the box... awesome!
In a far distant future, intelligent mice will be marveling over archaeological wonders of random fossils found in the soap deposits discovered in Cody's basement.
It's nice to see you back, Cody!
Big difference between bee's wax and fat is that fat is mostly fatty esters of glycerol (triglycerides), whereas wax is mostly fatty esters of fatty alcohols.
So after saponification, your soap should have quite a high content of fatty alcohols, which will remain much more hydrophobic than the fatty acid salts portion.
I made similar comment. I wonder if hexanes could be used to remove the fatty alcohols. I think water would just cause emulsion.
I'm glad to see the algorithm favoring your videos again man, it's about time.
i bet that's the kind of soap bar that would last for literal years
Good to see you man. Thank GOD that beard started growing again. I though a stranger hijacked your channel.
How hot was the water :)
At one point I lost if they were stained red or heat burned! Glad you posted a video again Cody we miss u dude
Maybe you could use the bee soap as a mild abrasive additive, like how some soaps will have pumice in them. It could be a gentler form of that
I have always enjoyed your journey through life. Glad you can bring us along it is entertaining and interesting.
Sharp soap! For when you need more tears in your washing procedure
If you grind this up really fine, could you add it to the soap mixture so late in the process that it doesnt re-melt, leaving you with a graininess in the final soap bar? You could potentially make a bar with beeswax soap exfoliant in it
Hey, Cody! Thanks for uploading. This was cool
Can we get a mine update you said you would keep doing it off camera or make your own off camera I used to watch it when I was little now I’m 18 and I came back after a few years and I was really looking forward to it
You could make the beeswax soap into coarse granules and then incorporate those into your softer bar of soap. Might be a nice exfoliant or grease scrub.
I get so happy when I see you posting happy to see you good
I love this so much that I think I'll try it some day... saving this to a playlist for now
This is a really cool thing give us more of cody we love every bit of it!
Good to see ya Cody. I think the beeswax soap will work perfectly as fossils in the soap 🧼
My girlfriend got hung up on you saying a byproduct from an insect is considered an "Animal Fat basicly". Basically ruined trying to share the video but I still enjoyed it and glad to see more content.
from uranium mining to soap making, you really do it all. when they make a mars colony, I nominate you!
The doctor squatch soap sounds like they’re trying to sell you on how good it tastes when they read off the ingredients lol. I think it’s to marinade us for the sasquatches.
That... did not surprise me. I love that you're making soap too though!
Nice, I make homemade soap too :) Very cool experiment and a question I've had myself, thanks for the well-documented engaging presentation.
I think you've just made the hardest soap ever, I expected the rock-like description, but not glass!
It sounds like demon soap, "hurts your hands, feels like glass, takes forever rubbing to suds up.... which also means it'll last forever! mwahahhahaa"