Zurich, Switzerland, the goal of liposuction surgery is usually only to lose weight. But in the hands of a Swiss artist, excess fat is removed through surgery is used to make soap.
Quoted from the Telegraph, Sunday (10/10/2010), soap is now being exhibited in the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art. Almost nothing special, it's just a soap bars are white like regular soap.
Which makes it a full sensation is the raw material used in the human fat. Not just any man, even the fat is taken from a figure that is respected Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Gianni Motti, Swiss artist who makes human fat soap that Berlusconi's claim to get fat from a clinic in Switzerland. Reportedly, Berlusconi had liposuction at the clinic around the year 2004.
Soap that will be exhibited to the public until 28 November 2010 it was not actually used for bathing or washing hands. Since purchased from a collector in 2005, this soap brings anti-corruption messages through the campaign slogan 'Hands Clean'.
Moreover, the artist claims that the soap is derived from fat is considered somewhat summary Berlusconi. Because until now, the clinic in question has always denied providing human fat to be made into soap.
However, to make soap from human fat is possible with chemical reaction called saponification. This reaction involves fatty acids either in the form of vegetable or animal fats, with a special solution which is alkaline.
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