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Homestead Arts: Soap Making Class
September 20, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$26
Homestead Arts: Soap Making Class
Adults and teens 13 years old and up. Cost: $26 – all supplies included.
Location: Dr. Snapp House (Singing Creek Educational Center)
360 S. River Road, Cottage Grove, OR
Learn the basics of making bar soap from scratch. We will discuss the chemistry of saponification, properties of different base oils and local sources, and fragrance oils and other additives while we make a batch of soap. You will also learn how to make liquid soap and two forms of laundry soap. Take home a share of the soap we produce.
Pre-registration is required. Use the form below to sign up for this class.
About Your Instructor
Kevin Prier has a BS in biology from the University of Oregon and a doctoral dissertation in neurobiology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. With an extensive background in the sciences and math and more than 10 years tutoring and teaching experience from grade school to college level, he tutors science, math, and German at the elementary through college level and also works as a medical interpreter in German and French. His own children have been entirely home schooled. He has been teaching them science and math along with children from other home-schooled families, and was potions master for Homeschool Hogwarts for four years, teaching chemistry as Professor Abraxas. Kevin also teaches urban homesteading classes for adults through community centers in Eugene and Springfield, with workshops on gardening and foraging; fermenting sauerkraut, kimchi, and other vegetables; cheese and sausage making; soap making; and more.
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