Ivory Soap

[da]

Recipe: one bar Ivory soap, one microwave, on 1 min. 30 seconds.













Anyone care for Antactica on a plate?...







I rather like this one:



...the only adjusting was bumping up the contrast and gamma a little bit. That's just about what it looked like in my microwave.

Two animated gifs.

Expanding. (985KB)

Contracting. (641KB)

The finished product still feels soapy on the skin. It crumbles, though a wettened clump of soap-cloud will compress more, and act just about exactly like the original bar.



[edit: for anyone joining here for the first time, original motivation was a conversation with bats22 and subsequent googling found this thread from madsci.org which has an explanation for why it happens.]

Comments

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. :) What's the consistency like after?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Um- not squishy; the bubbles are brittle. The surface feels... sort of soapy. :)

It crumbles somewhat easily, into a coarse powder which feels grainy. But the biggest chunks (which are sitting in a dish in my bathroom!) are solid enough that I can pick it up.