After Minatama Museum, we headed to Eco Net where we would be learning how to make soap using recycled materials. The place was located in a small town. Along the way, we saw small plots of farming land beside house. It's so different from the HDB flats that we lived in. The "air-con" weather was so nice for the stroll.
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Eco Net was a small and quite run-down house that recycle used cooking oil to make soap. Upon arriving, we were greeted by bubbles generated by machine.
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After the "bubbly" welcome, we sat in a small room for a lesson on the importance of recycling. We were shown a video that demonstrated the different effect of synthetic and non-synthetic detergent on two separate tanks of fish. The one with synthetic detergent died within 2 min where the other with non-synthetic detergent was still swimming around, not really affected.
Non-synthetic soaps can be made from recycled cooked oil.
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We had a fun hands on session to make soap from used cooking oil. The steps were quite simple.
1. Add water to caustic soda (sodium hydroxide).
2. Stirred till dissolved.
3. Slowly pour used cooking oil into dissolved caustic soda.
4. Stirred till thickened.
5. Pour fluid into cups to form soap shape.
6. Leave the soap for a month to stablise its acidity.
7. Soap ready for human use.
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At the end of the session, we were given a soap each to take home as a memorial of the fun time making DIY soap as a team. Yes, we worked as a team in making the soap and teamwork was very fun and meaningful.
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