Soap project

Soap

For our project we made soap. We used old soap and turned it into new soap. We infused essential oils to make the soap smell good. We also added coloring to make the soap look nice and so it could have a neat design. Our objective was to create a soap mold and have the soap set in the mold. We made the mold out of silicon. The silicon mold hardened in 24 hours. After it hardened we made our soap.

Our first thought for maker fair was to make a cake but our project was not approved by our teacher. So we had to think of other ideas. We came up with soap because we thought it would be cool to recreate our own type of soap. Also because it was something we haven’t done before. Our initial goal was to make something we haven’t made before.


One of our challenges was to not have the soap overflow in the microwave. We learned that in order for that not to happen, we had to check on the soap in the middle of the heating process.

The thing we learned throughout this whole project was how to make the soap mold and the soap. Before this project we didn’t even know what silicon was and we still don’t have a clear definition, but we understand how to use it. If we had more time we would have bought more colors for the soap and make more silicon molds. We would also want to add more scents. Finally, we would’ve wanted to make the soaps have more volume so they could be thicker. Making the soap was really fun to do with a partner because you get to interact with your partner and also less stressful because you could rely on each other for certain things. Especially with the time we had it was extra great to have a partner.

We first started by planning on what we were going to do first, than we ask Ms, Mytko how to make a mold so she gave us two ingredients that make silicon so then we made a mold and we also see other molds to make the soap. After we got the soap then we headed it up in the microwave, and we tried to not let it explode. We also used some scents and some pigment to get a marble color. Are project is easy to understand, but sometimes people thought that you could eat it.


We didn’t really want to take things from school so we used materials from home, because we didn’t want to spend a lot of money. We spent at least $30 plus the things that Ms. Mytko provided. We got our idea from youtube source https://www.youtube.com/user/divascancook?safesearch=1

We learned that we had to check on the soap while it was in, because if you do it with explode, we also let learned to communicate with each other so we can have a better experience.

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Savannah, Dakota