Is it Soylent Clean?
A Connecticut man is drawing comparisons to Brad Pitt’s character in “Fight Club” after converting his own body fat into soap.
He also posted a gruesome TikTok video detailing the entire grisly process from body to bar.
“Some find the video funny, while others find it outright disgusting,” Robert Tolppi, 23, told Caters News Agency of his “Soylent Green”-esque recycling scheme.
The influencer, who frequently shares bizarre clips for his 1.5 million followers on TikTok, explained in the clip that he’d gotten the idea after getting 400ccs of fat removed during a liposuction procedure.
“They were going to throw it away as medical waste,” recalled Tolppi while moonshining his self-made concoction on camera. “But I asked if I could keep it because I’ve always wanted to make soap and didn’t want to waste perfectly good fat.”
In other words, he literally wanted to make something of himself.
The blubber scrubber was whipping up a more gruesome version of tallow soap, which is created by combining sheep or cow marbling with sodium hydroxide — more commonly known as lye.
The resultant cleanser, known as sodium tallowate helps clean one’s skin and hair by “helping water mix with dirt and oils so you more easily clean them,” per Healthline.
In the macabre cooking tutorial, the DIY soap-maker can be seen pouring the 400ccs of “himself” into a pot with lye and cutting it with vanilla essential oils and rose petals for scent.
Tolppi then transfers the literal body wash into a rectangular mold and then cuts it into usable bars.
He then tests his Ed Gein-inspired product on his own hands to see if it “lathers,” which it appears to do, per the clip.
“My hands feel so clean and they smell amazing,” gushes Tolppi, who can now theoretically scrub his tummy with, well, his own tummy.
Although, the freelance scientists warned other prospective human bar brewers to do their research before handling lye and to also keep the windows open during the process.
Viewers were equally enthralled and revolted over the soap opera with one writing, “That’s so disgusting.”
“All kidding aside, I want all of the tools to make soap now,” said another of the flab-ulous stunt.
Others compared Tolppi’s experiment to the iconic plot point in David Fincher’s 1999 thriller “Fight Club” where Brad Pitt and Edward Norton’s characters harvest fat from a liposuction clinic’s dumpster and use it to make explosives.
“Rule number 1 of fight club, don’t talk about fight club,” quipped one wit.
However, the TikTokker claims he wasn’t “drawing specifically on that movie.”
“I found the idea of human fat soap compelling, taking the conclusions of the zero-waste movement and our society’s push to recycle to the next level,” Tolppi declared.
