Day 3: Golden Stream Soap Workshop

Vivian Tien
After an hour’s bus ride, we set up the soap workshop stations at the Golden Stream Community Center and got to know the Mayan villagers. For the next three hours, we walked the villagers through the process of making soap from cacao butter and other products endemic to the region, such as turmeric. Everyone seemed to really enjoy taking their soaps out of the molds--the colors and essential oils that they mixed into the bars made the final products look really beautiful!