Melting Every Soap From Whole Foods Together

office. You approach the buffet and are presented with this. WYD? (Both laugh) In which all our pieces still don't fit. Oh Lord! (bleep) - Alright, I think it's Bertha time. (Tyler laughing) - Did you name it? Luckily we found this giant thing. - Hell yeah. - Which I believe we originally purchased for Franken Candleling. I think this is bigger. - This is crazy. (Safiya laughs) - Was it hinged before? But for now, it was going to serve as our huge salad bowl, into which we were going to pour our

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salad. Oh, it really smells like marzipan right now. - It looks like you're making a giant paella. - Oh!

In a way he does. And once it was all mixed

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, we were able to spread the flakes into a crock pot and save the rest in a separate crock pot to melt later. Bertha and I getting intimate. Oh! After the warm ones, our next stripe was the medium beiges. Oh! What the hell? It was such a bulky shredding category that we gave them their own strip. There's like weed toothpaste right now. Then we had the deep stripe, which is a combination of our black and gray, and our brown

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s. Oh my god, it smells like French fries.

Which of course included the reappearance of our pine tar soap. Which, for

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one's sake, I tried to bury under the other soaps. Oh, this smells good right now. Cinnamon, honey, just a hint of smoke. Maybe like a barbecue cookie. Then we had the light strip. Which contained our off-white and off-white soap categories. Ponte, it's actually huge, it's actually huge. Oh oh May! Which was a ton of scales

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. since I think it represents more than 33 bars of soap. Oh! This one is so good. It's like mint, lavender floral. Yes. And mint. And finally, the top stripe of our Franken soap, the cold stripe. (Safiya chokes) I completely forgot about the seaweed.

Which contained our greens, purples and blues. Plus all that damn seaweed. Help, it's algae. That we were also going to try to bury as best we could. Oh, I'm potentially getting a hopeful cucumber smell. Is the cucumber winning? But only time will tell. And once we had all our pots filled, we could start cooking. It's just me and my crock pots hanging out. - What have you done? (laughs) - I don't know, I have a lot of clay pots. Now, the remixing process here involves very slowly heating the soaps. Literally simmer them so they become soft and mushy.

The mediums are warming up the place. - Yes really. It's like the car from "Titanic." - And also constantly rehydrate them and mix them so that they melt, instead of scorching, burning, or just refusing to do anything. - It must be slow and steady, and at that perfect moment... it hits! - That is exactly what it is. And I spend about an hour patrolling back and forth along my line of crock pots, basting, and spatulas. You will see? - Oh yeah! - Yes. - It's starting to crumble. - We're getting it. We are getting it. Until you reach that desired chili texture.

Stew with chunks, it's coming, I see it. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! And then once they were melted as much as possible, I blended a little bit with a whisk to try to make it as smooth and uniform as possible. The color is converging to that of the bean sauce, right? (mixer whirring) - Good Costco bean dip. - Hopefully not too much to foam up the soap, but hopefully enough to kill off the chunks. - You sound like a very nervous jet ski. (mixer whirring) - Just a little jet skiing. Just a little jet skiing. And then it looked like we were ready to pour our soap into our loaf pans.

All right, I agree? - Yes. - Ready, I'm coming. - Yes, go. - And when I said pour, I really meant spoonful, since it was still quite slimy. Cool. - That looks great. - Are you coming with another? - That looks beautiful. Oh, it's super orange. -Although I was able to flatten our soap by slamming our mold on the counter. (hitting the mold) - Yes. (hitting the mold) - Very good, good. No delicate blow. - Which I've seen people do in other soap tutorials before. Although I'm not sure if he normally gets hit that hard. But our soap was quite thick. (hitting the container) - Get to the corners. (hitting the container) - Oh hell yeah! - And then I tried to give each layer a second to set.

Let's take this crock pot, honey. Help, I fell and I can't get up. But I didn't want to wait too long between pouring our different stripes. - I'm ready for cheese. - Are you ready for cheese? Are you sure? - Go. - Because the cheese is ready for you! Since we wanted the heat of the soaps to help the layers stick together, like I said before, I've never seen striped soap on sale before. So I couldn't say for sure if this was going to work or not. On a happier note, although I smell a bit of pine tar, I also smell some other things. - Is that a total eclipse of the nasal passages? - But after picking up and hitting our different layers... (hitting the tray) - Yes!

That's filling the space, honey. - So far

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thing seems to be going pretty well. Did you know? It's a little less kelpy at the moment. - Nice. - Maybe the stick mix helped. - Sent back to the ocean. (Safiya laughing) - We returned it. - Yes. - If it smells like seaweed, I'll return it. Until we finally had four pans full of what I thought might be a nice

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striped Franken bar. I think it's pretty full. I think it looks good. - Yes me too. - But we had to wait for the soap to cool overnight to find out what was really inside the molds. (bell rings) Okay, it's been a couple of days.

I let the soap solidify overnight and then some. And I think now we're ready to cut it and see what we have. Hopefully a striped soap. Potentially a lot of stripes. So after taking our first loaf out of the pan. - Oh yes oh yes oh yes. Oh! (Safiya laughing) - What was that noise? It did not immediately crumble into different sheets of soap. So that was a good sign. - It is so beautiful. - Very good, let's see what treasures are inside. And after the first cut, it seemed like our stripes looked really good. Well, those look like pretty decent capes. - Those are good stripes. - That looks like a cake.

Fortunately, the layers seemed to stick together quite well. But I feel like if I really tried to separate them, I probably could. I think they are as merged as possible. - Yes. (laughing) - Do you know what I mean? But at this point, I felt confident enough that this would be our last Franken soap opera. That I felt it was time to dive into the breakdown of all the aromas and ingredients we have here. I'm going to drop some bars. So, from our total of 109 original soaps, we were able to identify 242 individual aromatic notes. There are so many soaps. - I know. - I'm creating an army of soap operas.

Ha ha ha. Floral aromas such as lavender, rose and jasmine. And citrus scents like lemon, lemongrass, and bergamot tied for first place with 14% each. Although leafy and herbal aromas, such as tea, eucalyptus and rosemary, followed closely at around 13%. And the extra 7% was just perfect. I am like the emperor of Jinan. Except instead of thousands of terracotta soldiers, they'll bury me with millions of Franken soaps. And then we had sweet, musky and woody aromas at 10% each. And creamy aromas in about 7% of all notes. Although it is interesting to note that about 12% of the total 109 soaps were simply unfragranced.

So, that might dilute our scent a little bit. OMG, that one is really sturdy. It's like a pyramid. That's Johnson, the Rock Soap. It is the most resistant soap I have ever seen. Now the skin-beneficial ingredients were a little harder to track down. ♪ There she is ♪ ♪ Miss America ♪ She's crowning! But after eliminating some common soap base ingredients, such as glycerins, general oils, and some colorants, it seems that the most popular are softening shea butter, cleansing salts, bar, and sea salt. Anti-inflammatory, vitamin E, toxin-absorbing charcoal, moisturizing and anti-aging hemp. I guess thanks to Dr. Bronner. And of course, some soothing goat's milk and soothing oats.

Although goat's milk is about twice the appearance of oats. And those are just the most popular benefits. There are many more where those came from. I mean, listen, we could wash our hands with this and end up with baby hands. - Exactly. - So this bar might be the one fancy bar to rule them all. As long as you don't extract those benefits directly from them. Detoxified, clarified, softened, I am ready to become a girl. Benjamin Button, me, Whole Foods. - It's the fountain of youth, darling. - And now that we have made our bars, I think it's time to smell the truth.

What does the thing really smell like? (bell rings) I've already decided where I want to go. I don't know where I want to go yet. Which? Which soap seems the smelliest? So I grabbed one of these bars to smell it. MMM. But just to give my nose a little support, we also sent a couple of bars to some soap experts. Katie from Royalty Soaps and Ann Marie from Bramble Berry. They both helped us last time with our Franken Lush bars. - (panting) Wow! - Oh! Well, this is adorable! - And they also agreed to comment on the aroma of our

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Franken bars.

And from the beginning it was not easy to achieve it. First impression, almost a little salty. I smell a hint of mint. Yes, I can almost smell five different aromas. I think I was a little biased in knowing what scents were in each strip. But for me, aside from some mint vibes throughout, I think the fresh stripe was the strongest scent. It didn't smell too chelaceous, but a little salty and greenish. It's like a savory, salty olive oil, with an herbal smell. Olives on the beach. But in Katie's case, I think she got the vibe of herbs, medicines, and leaves pretty strongly. - This smells clean, it smells fresh.

And I would say it smells a little rustic. It reminds me of essential oils in a good way. And even though Ann Marie lightly roasted me. - Mm, I'm getting some very plastic Play-Doh notes. We'll see. - I think she was on the same page. If you think about it, Play Doh is a little salty. - Ah, a little bit of mint in there. A little ozone currents. A little bit of alpine forest. - Excuse me, pine tree? Oh, alpine. Alpine is fine. - I'm imagining a lot of essential oils. Maybe that's why I'm consuming so much mint. - Yes, on the subject of pine, if you really looked for it, you could smell the slightest hint of our pine tar Grandfather Soap.

Like when I really focused on that line. But not too much. It actually matches the other stripes quite well. But some scents that were noticeably absent were all those citrus and floral notes. Except maybe lavender, which can skew a species of herb. Although I swore I could smell the ghost of a musky dried fruit, somewhere near the orange fringe. Yes, almost like a medley. That makes sense, right? But overall I thought the smell was pretty good. And it seems that our two experts liked our bars too. - In my professional opinion, I think these soaps are the best I have received so far.

They smell good, look beautiful, amazing job. - Overall, good job with the layers. And you know what? The smell is not horrible. - Which is a huge compliment from Anne-Marie. Since I last sent her Franken Lush soaps, she said one of them smelled like baby vomit. And then, as a final test, I did have to wash my hands with one of our bars. And I have to say that it is quite surprising. And it felt so good in my hands. It was almost soft and silky, and not drying at all. That's not just foam, okay? That's foam.

I was joking when I said this might be the one fancy soap opera to rule them all. But I think this bar is pretty good. And in general, when I consider our original question. On a scale from goat's milk soufflé to best soap ever, I think our final Franken bars came a little closer to the latter. While I will say that their scents are as strong as I originally expected, I guess I didn't take into account how many Whole Foods soaps prioritize the benefits before the scent, rather than along with it. But the out-of-this-world experience of washing your hands helps make up for that.

Overall, I think this experiment was a W. And honestly, my salad wasn't that bad either. Was it worth $17? Objectively, no. But I enjoyed it anyway. - Aren't you supposed to be laughing? - Woman, laughing with salad. (Tyler laughing) And after all my cutting, and a secret extra day of

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and cutting the rest of our flakes, we ended up with 135 bars to give to you. So if you're interested in winning a subtle, salty soap, make sure you're subscribed, leave a comment below, and fill out the Google form in the description. And with that, thank you all so much for watching.

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