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Kids make soap at HANC

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When did people first start using soap? Do you know what saponification means? Do you know how soap is made?

Thanks to a visit from Mrs. Sara Mark, Benjamin’s mother, the students in K-113 at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, can answer those questions.

After Mrs. Mark recounted the history of soap, the students each made their very own bar of soap to take home, mixing colors and adding fragrances to make their bars their own.

In preparation, the children watched videos about soap-making and read books about the origin of soap. The students also learned how soap is mass-produced. They discovered such interesting soap-related fact as the World’s Record for the Most People in a Soap Bubble at one time (50) and learned the etymology of “standing on a soap box.”