Science In Action

My daughter, a 5th grade student, has decided on her science project-

Saponification Experimentation: The Effect Of Soap On Our Environment

Her project basis is simple; she’s taken four liriope plants and is watering each with a ’special’ water.

Even though the project has just begun, I thought I would share it with you since the results so far were surprising, even to me!

She started the process by grating up two seperate bars of soap, a Dove white bar and a bar of Natural Magic Soaps Goat’s Milk soap.

The soap shreds were then weighed and added to distilled water. Each bottle was shaken the same number of times to help the soap dissolve.

We were all quite surprised at this point to see what happened to the water:

She also gathered up a jug of unfiltered well water and a bottle of purified spring water. These two bottles will be used as well, to create her ‘control’ group.

 

The water with the Dove soap in it is so cloudy that Samantha says she feels sorry for the ‘Dove’ plant; it looks like it’s being watered with milk.

Since she’s on day two of the experiment, there aren’t many results to share just yet. However, as her research comes in, I’ll be sure to update!

A Supersonic Good Time

Yep! Supersonic! That’s the best way to describe this past weekend’s Atomic Holiday Bazaar!

We left early (up at 4:30, on the road an hour later) and stopped in Arcadia for breakfast. We got to the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium just in time to start setting up. Crazy stuff! Here’s a few shots before the doors were opened:

We got right to work setting up the Natural Magic Soaps booth. I hadn’t had a chance to set everything up before the show but was really pleased with how it turned out:

Overall we had an amazing show, selling out of several items and wishing I’d made more! The turnout was amazing and Adrien & Cemantha should be really pleased with themselves; all their hard work paid off in spades!

Highlights:
GREAT band
Having a line of people waiting to get into the booth.
Meeting so many awesome people and finally putting faces with those names. Sonic cheesecake bites.
Scoring some Vanilla Spice Chai Vegan Whipped Body Frosting from Luca
FINALLY getting home!

A huge thank you to everyone who came out to the show, to Adrien & Cemantha for all their work in making it a success and to everyone who was a vendor- ALL the stuff rocked!