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[Relle]

Did you know that the average person has enough stored fat in their body to make 7 cakes of soap. :shock: I'm not average so would probably have enough for a whole log :shh:.

So if you run out of oil to make soap, just pull someone off the street and render down their fat .

 

[Lin]

You haven't seen/read Fight Club have you?

 

[roseb]

Lol!

 

[Derpina Bubbles]

Bwhaha now I'm going to be looking at people and trying to work out how many bars they have in them. I'd love to lose a bar or 2 myself.

 

[neeners]

how interesting! yet....slightly creepy. wonder how long it will take for the SAP value of human tallow (would it be called that?) to show up on SoapCalc?!?!!?

 

[kazmi]

I have enough fat of my own to make MUCH more than 7 bars of soap. But I think it would be more fun to pull someone off the street to render fat. Like someone that has no business being in the driver seat of a car, or someone that does something stupid in the grocery line.....LMAO !!!

 

[Derpina Bubbles]

Dexter's Artisan Soapworks.

 

[DeeAnna]

Hey, what about this for a biz name?

H. Lecter's Lavatorium

:mrgreen:

 

[roseb]

Dexter's Artisan Soapworks.

Sick, but funny!

 

[lpstephy85]

I could clean the world and then some! Very interesting fact. Gross, but interesting

 

[boyago]

You haven't seen/read Fight Club have you?

I'm sure that's listed on the Paper Street Soap Company packaging.

 

[neeners]

i wonder if any soap makers who works at a plastic surgeon office thinks that when they're performing a liposuction.....

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

Takes it rather beyond looking at trays and seeing soap molds - looking at people and seeing saponifiable oils.....................

 

[pamielynn]

We have so many "fat-sucking" places in my city, that I often think of pulling a Tyler Durden some night....

 

[mel z]

This thread is cracking me up!

Since the human body is considered to be closet to a pig's body if working in a field that deals with decomp, I'm guessing rather than beef tallow, once rendered, we could plug the amount into soap calc under lard.

I am very curious now about human tallow and what sort of bar of soap it would make.... I'm sure if I look, some serial killer has already done this and I just haven't come across it yet, or they haven't bothered to pipe up about it. If I had to guess, it would be Ed Gein.

I'd say I would render into a couple of logs.

 

[DeeAnna]

Um, well, okay, at the risk of seeming rather ghoulish, human fat is probably a bit closer to beef tallow than lard.

They all have about the same amount of oleic and palmitic acids. Human fat has less stearic than either of the animal fats. Human fat and beef tallow have less linoleic acid than lard -- that is probably the biggest distinction.

Human fat contains about 46% oleic acid, 26% palmitic acid, 6.5% stearic, and 3% linoleic.

Beef tallow has 36-47% oleic and 26-28% palmitic, 14-22% stearic, and 3% linoleic, depending on what source I look at.

Lard has more like 33-46% oleic, 20-28% palmitic, 10-13% stearic, and 6-22% linoleic.

Source for human fatty acid content: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1205373/?page=4

<...slinking back to my coffin...>

 

[mel z]

Lol, thank you DeeAnna. I hope you do know I was joking around. I do thank you for the link though, I knew someone would know the answer, even thought I didn't REALLY want to know. You're the best!

 

[ourwolfden]

Didn’t the guy on the ostrich oil thread say that ostrich oil and people oil and very similar?

 

[DeeAnna]

Yep, Mel, I know you're joking. I can't resist an excuse to parade weird trivia in front of folks who will not immediately trot me off to the looney bin. 8)

 

[judymoody]

The Nazis did experiments making soap from human fat.