You know how when you rub your hands together after being outside you'll get the dark dead skin deposits (see pic on right) . I rub most of my body, legs, arms, chest and belly and collect these deposits when freshly collected. They have a claylike feel and property due to the skin oils. I shape these into small balls but as I build them up they dry out so adding new skin to the pile is difficult as the old balls slowly turn to dust. I've recently noticed that rubbing alcohol seems to have the effect of hydrating the mass so i dumped all of my most recent deposits into a small cup with some rubbing alcohol this created a grey and homogenous sludge that i then spread on printer paper to absorb the excess rubbing alcohol once it returned to a clay like state i shaped it into the cube in the middle (quarter for scale). I figured if anyone else did this they would be here but I doubt anyone else has done my alcohol method before. Feel free to ask questions.

>>936496852 (OP)
Is that the most you've collected?
How long did it take to get that much and how much does it weigh?

>>936497183
no when i was in high school i colected a pile that was at least 4x this size but now that i have a method for rehydration the ceiling i was operation under is gone.

this took a little bit over 2 weeks and id estamate 10g

>>936496852 (OP)
Disgusting and fascinating.
What will you do with it?
Have you tried a bite?

>>936497437
i honestly have no idea what to do with it. its just somthing i do when im bored or watching youtube. its almost like watching a plant grow.

No and i never will. the idea of that textue on my teeth is revolting i dont think the taste would be that bad depening on if you've taken a shower recently. i think it would taste like you.

>>936497312
At 5g a week, you could make stuff out of it
Have you considered getting enough to make sculptures or something?
Making something entirely out of "you" would be cool

I would try selling it on eBay if I were you

>>936497312
That’s 2g tops.
Also, wonderfully gross don’t stop!
Have a whiff of my stinky britches.

>>936497920
it's not a very strong substance, it's prone to cracking when dehydrated. I think with the right ratio i could make a sort of plaster that could be used to fill a mold tho

>>936497930
i dont think you can sell body parts of any sort on ebay besides scalp hair

>>936498277
>>936498195
If it actually has structure like clay, that's very coincidental since hair would actually be the solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbLdNKM9y68

>>936498400
that might work, tho I think the focus now is just on accumulation

>>936496852 (OP)
you can sell this as hash to stupid zoomers kekw

make a hut out of stones and the "clay"

>>936498924
Ferb, i know what were going to do today

>>936496852 (OP)
You could get your back too with a cloth but collecting the detritus might be tricky.

Today OP delivered.
I do something similar with the buildup in my bathtub. Didn't know that about rubbing alcohol though you pioneer. I just smoosh them into a pile and throw it out.

>>936496852 (OP)
Coolest thread i've seen in at least the past 4 months.

>>936500130
FUCK how did i not conect this to the bathtub? ive just been scrubbing like a fool. science is truly a collective process

>>936500432
I didn't expect to contribute, feels kinda good. I am going to get a big plastic scraper to get a lot at once instead of what I get with my fingernails.

>>936496852 (OP)
>Feel free to ask questions.

QA. are you a retard?
QB. are you aware that you're a massive faggot?

How hard is the cube once it dried up? And how uniform/mechanically resilient/brittle? Does it crack as it dries up, or is your discovery so fresh you rushed to share it here before it had a chance to evaporate all the alcohol?

>>936497920 has a cool idea, wondering how viable dead skin is as a sculpture material. Maybe you could mix the alcohol with some non-evaporating plasticiser like a bit of glycerine or linseed oil to keep it from shrinking/cracking. Linseed oil would naturally polymerise and harden with time making the structure more durable with time.

>>936500755
yes and yes

>>936500780
I had previously experimented with this method but the cube is the first “large scale” test. Cracks form after drying but don't typically lead to collapse until pressure is put upon. The strength is most comparable to cheap dried out deodorant.

Thicker liquids would be harder to mix but linseed oil might be worth it for strength. although that would take away from the artistic vision that people seem to be attracted to here. If i was going to make this a “Me sculpture” i would use hair from my brush as shown in the vid

>>936501573
Or your own skin oils/sebum, though how you collect that other than not washing your hair to unsociable degrees and scratching off the sebum(skin oil)-rich dead skin off your scalp. Fully-you but gross to accomplish.

>>936496852 (OP)
I have rolled into tiny balls for eating.
Free salty food.

>>936496852 (OP)
Oh wow I used to rub my sweaty hands together as a kid and get these dark strips of skin, sweat and dirt.

This is totally awesome. Please find a way to solidify these cubes.

Maybe dye the cubes as well, so you can make an 8x8 chessboard.

And then work on checkerboard (or chess pieces, if you are daring).

>>936502899
my first memory of these deposits was at recess. there was a magic trick where you would pretend to cut somones hair with your fingers and to catch the hair in your hands then rub your hands together so that the "hair" would appear.

a king pice might be interesting

>>936501831
with my hair i might be able to do that fairly quickly but ill leave that to the real degen art students