Soap Project
In May and June (as our end-of year project), we created soap ("soap" = soap, and other cosmetic products) from raw ingredients.
This project was manifold, including studies of oils, fats, acids, bases, dyes, scents, and saponification in general. We're even studying advertising in Humanities. We ("we" = my classmates and I) will wind up with HTHI's two trademark project products:
This project worked out well. My role in my group is Documentarian, so I take a lot of pictures during class. Also, a lot of soap making is waiting around, so I frequently take pictures of other groups who happen to be working.
This project was manifold, including studies of oils, fats, acids, bases, dyes, scents, and saponification in general. We're even studying advertising in Humanities. We ("we" = my classmates and I) will wind up with HTHI's two trademark project products:
- Comprehension of the subject matter (reactions & relationships between substances, how to do different types of calculations and conversions, etc.)
- Tangible stuff! (for this project, our soap & other to be decided cosmetics) We're even going to sell them at the year-end exhibition!
This project worked out well. My role in my group is Documentarian, so I take a lot of pictures during class. Also, a lot of soap making is waiting around, so I frequently take pictures of other groups who happen to be working.
THERE'S ME! I did actual work during this project, not just picture taking, I swear! I forget who took this picture (was it Raphael? THANK YOU RAPHAEL), but this was one of those annoying waiting stages. We couldn't put the lye in with the oil until both were the same temperature (100 deg. F), and so we had to sit there holding a pot of nigh-boilign oil on a bag of ice for a while. But I got to talk to Maritza some, and I let somebody else use my camera, so it's all good.