Hello!

Today we will recapitulate to 1st of November to tell you the amazing procedure of making soap with Naomi! Once upon a time the volunteers Murat, Mislav, Daisy and Abde went to Csekefalva to help Naomi with the preparation of natural body products.

This time we saw on first row how to make soap, more specifically lavender and cinnamon scented soaps! It’s a dangerous procedure, so she had to use gloves and glasses just in case. As the recipe is a secret, I’m not going to say nothing about that. (First of all, because I don’t remember it, but it had water, oils, scents and much more things:)).

The procedure wasn’t very long because she already had practice so it wasn’t her first time, but some details must be very exact like a certain temperature of the oil or exact weights of some of the ingredients.

When we had the mix, she split the mix in two; one to put the lavender scent and the other to put the cinnamon scent. And to make it more attractive for the eye, she dyed a little of the mix with purple color to make it look like a gradient in the lavender soap.

When everything is done, they have to dry at room temperature and then rest for about a month!

When we finished the process of the soap we had a tea/coffee break. 

Later we went to her lavender field to plant little lavenders so by springtime they can bloom. This part was a little bit more tiring but it was very good, as we were four volunteers, Naomi and two kids; Murat dug the ground and Mislav put the little lavenders, while Naomi was telling them where they had to dig and plant. All the while Daisy and Abde were removing weeds and tall plants for more visibility.

To conclude the day we had lunch with Naomi and her husband! We had some mashed potatoes with chicken meat/beans as everyone had different diets!
When we were about to leave, her husband showed us their large vats of vinegar in the fermentation process, they explained to us how it works, and the smell surprisingly wasn’t that bad!

It was very cool and so educational to learn how to make soap, the process of planting lavenders and the process of vinegar’s fermentation.