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- Hi, I'm Miss Penny,
and these are the wonderful Kid Vision kids,
and we're here today to find out how to make soap.
- Hi, I'm Miss Elise,
and we're here at Make It Yourself Ceramic Studio,
and we're going to make our own soap today.
- Let's hit the road.
- Let's make soap!
- Yay! - Yay!
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- Now we're going to find out
what ingredients we need to make soap.
- The important thing that goes into soap is oil,
but soap needs to also be able to act with water.
So we're gonna do an experiment to find out about how
oil and water might be able to mix at some point.
- Okay, let's do an experiment and find out.
- I have a jar,
and we're gonna put some water
in your jars first.
About that much.
I'm gonna add some oil.
Do you see two different layers?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- We see a bottom layer that's the water,
and a top layer that's the oil.
- Do oil and water mix or do they separate?
- Separate.
- They stay separate.
The job of soap is to make oil and water mix,
because that's how you was your hands.
So I'm going to add dish soap.
One,
- Oh that looks cool!
- Two, and we'll see if this works.
Shake it up really good.
Really good!
Oh, look what you did.
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- We have bubbles.
- Okay, now we have lots of bubbles.
Soaps job
is to take oil and water
and make it mix up,
because then it lets you wash your hands in water
and get rid of all those germs and dirt and things
that are actually more friendly with oil.
- But it has one secret ingredient that makes it mix.
- Lye, lye is kind of a dangerous chemical,
so we brought soap that's already had the lye put in it.
- So now we know that the ingredients to make soap
are water, oil, and lye.
But we want soap to smell good.
So let's find how we can make it smell good.
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- We'd like our soap to have a very nice smell.
What kind of word would you put with smell?
- Scent.
- A scent.
What do you smell with?
- Your nose.
- Okay, I am going to start with orange.
I'm gonna dip this in the orange.
When you smell,
it works best if let everything else go away.
So you might wanna close your eyes.
Smell it for a minute.
Does it smell like a fruit?
- It smells like fruit.
It smells like citrus.
- It smells sweet.
- So this is the oil right?
- That's the essential oil, it's made from the plant.
- What other fragrances do we have?
- The next one I'm going to do is lavender.
- What does it smell to you like?
- It kind of smells like lotion and a little lavender.
- Kind of smells really strong.
- Really strong. - Lavender, it does.
I am so glad you like lavender.
- Can we smell the plant?
Is the plant itself have the same-
- The plant has a little bit different smell,
but you can tell me what you think.
- This doesn't smell like that.
- I kind of like that. - Woops, sorry.
- That went in my face.
- It's a little bit different.
- Yes.
- It is different.
- But it's a little bit the same.
- The oil is stronger.
- The last one is peppermint.
It comes from the leaves of a plant.
- It smells hard.
It smells harder than the lavender doesn't it?
- Lavender was kind of soft.
- So now we've learned what ingredients go into soap.
We learned about the fragrances we can put in soap.
Let's make some soap!
- And we have colors too,
because these are colors,
so maybe we'll make colors to match our scent.
- Are you ready?
- Yes!
- Let's go do it.
- Okay.
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- So now we're going to make soap!
- We are, and I brought some soap that's called
melt and pour.
Somebody did most of the hard work for us
and we're going to melt it and do the fun part,
which is adding color and adding fragrance.
But safety first!
If we're working with something hot
or liquid that might splash in our face,
we wanna cover our eyes so it protects our eyes.
- This is called a mold,
do you know why this is called a mold?
- No.
- Because it's a form
that gives you shape to what you're making.
So what shape do you think our soaps are gonna be?
- Circles.
- They're gonna be round.
This is soap,
but it doesn't have any color or any fragrance.
So we're going to melt it
so that we can add color and fragrance to it, okay?
Now, this part is going to take a minute
because I have to get it to exactly the right temperature.
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- I melt it so it make sure is about the right temperature.
What we're gonna do is we're gonna add fragrance and color
and put it in the mold,
so that we'll have a complete soap
with fragrance, and color, and shape.
- I'm gonna put two drops of the lavender.
You wanna put one drop?
- Yes.
- Okay, squeeze the top, one drop goes in.
Whoops.
Okay, very good.
And then I'm gonna pour these in the mold
and we're gonna make, I think, three soaps.
One,
two,
and three.
Okay, everybody watch 'cause there's a technique.
We're gonna put three grain.
Now, see how it went down to the bottom?
What you need to do is take your scooper
and scoop it from the bottom,
and then you can swirl it.
You wanna make sure you get all
the stuff up from the bottom.
- You're soap is becoming so nice!
- Look how nice!
- Look at that!
Do you know how to tell if they're done?
- How?
- Blow on the top, if it wiggles don't touch 'em,
'cause they're still hot.
- That was a lot of work,
we added fragrance, we added colors,
and now it has to harden so we can use it for our own soap
and wash our own hands.
Are you ready?
- Yay!
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- Let's talk about when you wash your hands.
When do you wash your hands Rita?
- After I go to the bathroom.
- Good answer!
When do you wash your hands?
- Before and after I eat.
- Perfect!
- When do you wash your hands?
- When you do to dirty places like the playground.
- Excellent answer.
- Why should we wash our hands?
- When we touch all these things
we get dirt on our hands.
So if we use soap, it washes the dirt
and the germs away.
- When you wash your hands,
wet your hands with clean water,
use soap and work up a lather on both sides of your hands,
your wrists, and in between your fingers.
Don't forget to wash around your nails.
Rinse and dry well.
We learned so much today about soap.
We learned about fragrances, we learned about colors,
we learned about the ingredients of soap,
and why and when to wash our hands.
It was terrific, thank you so much.
- Thank you, it was fun. - It was great.
This space was awesome.
Thank you MIY Ceramic Studio
for lending us your space to learn how to make soap.
It was a really terrific lesson.
- Bye!
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