Soap Making Dec 2015 with the VWWS Young Single Adults

Soap making 12/5/15 with the Young Single Adults.  

With a shopping cart barely loaded with supplies and the help of the YSA's we manufactured 278 gallons of homemade laundry soap that is donated to local agencies.  

This is what we started with (Approx $40 of supplies) Doesn't even fill the cart!

Many hands make light work. (Group grating the bars of Fels Naptha)

Pouring the concentrate into the buckets

Five gallons to three gallons

Each bar makes ten gallons

Focused on the task at hand

Cleaning up

Getting the buckets ready

Looks like cheese!

This is perhaps the most labor intensive aspect

Always time to visit

Ran out of supplies. A short down time

Chris contemplating

A watched pot shouldn't boil

Stacking the finished product

John doing the mixing - using a drill set up with a paint mixer. Works perfectly!

See, this IS fun!

Look like a mess

Why do we have to clean up after making soap?  Doesn't make sense really....

Getting ready to transport

Bev bringing in the buckets

Remember what we started with?  Finished Product from Soap Making 12/5/15

Can you believe the difference from the very first soap making project?  

Looks like we've fine tuned some production methods.

Of course, bringing in the enthusiastic and hard-working young single adults aided the project immensely!  Thank you YSA'S!