This ASMR Soap Curl Crunch Will Soothe Your Nerves

Your relationship with bar soap is probably a simple one: it sits in your shower and you use it to clean yourself. However, people have found another use for this basic household item and it's incredibly mesmerizing. It's a new trend known as "soap crunching," and it's pretty self explanatory: just take a bar of soap and crunch it up. There's something hypnotic about the way slivers of soap curl back or flake beneath your hands as the bar gets smaller and smaller and turns to pieces.

Most soap-crunching stories also have some version of ASMR in their name - a reference to the whispering genre of brain-tingling YouTube videos. Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response - known more commonly as ASMR - is a phenomenon growing in popularity that is almost too bizarre to believe. It is is a term used to describe a sensory experience characterized by a pleasant tingling sensation in the head and scalp, which can be triggered by sounds like whispering or brushing, and visual stimulus like painting or drawing.

It’s all about ambient sounds, and people claim it gives them “braingasms” and tingling sensations in their heads and necks. Clearly there is a growing community behind these soap-cutting videos, judging from the thousands of views on these videos. It's tough to say whether this is just a passing trend or something it will go on attracting thousands of people like it does now.

Turn the volume up for this super satisfying ASMR sound soap curls being crunched and enjoy! Check out some more of these lulling, soap-cutting videos, feel the calm wash over you, and decide for yourself.