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

[ex-halfwitte432.livejournal.com]

I am *so* doing this at home and putting them in the bathroom.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

You know, you could have waited until I at least had a microwave again...I am so doing this once it gets re-set!

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

It's delightful! It looks like cloud formations!

If I wasn't [oh tragic irony] allergic to ivory soap, I'd do this and use it.

weird, weird, weird

[(Anonymous)]

I just might try it.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

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

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!!!

[zombiefodder.livejournal.com]

Very cool! And, it works.

As soon as I read it, I grabbed the kids and a bar of Ivory and hit the microwave. It worked perfectly. The youngest wants to use the remains for his bath tonight.

[My sister-in-law - fupher - pointed me this way.]

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

that is SO COOL.

[180milehug.livejournal.com]

I think you have just performed the greatest feat in scientific history.