Laboratories and Experiences
Laboratories and Experiences organized by our Museum focus on the world of soap and you will discover this product not only from an historical perspective but also from a scientific one. Visitors will have the opportunity by using different substances to learn different steps of the soap process. At our Museum it is possible to choose among different laboratories and activities for all ages, from kids to adults. For all laboratories and experiences is required the reservation.
SOAP LAB FOR KIDS
This activity is designed expecially for kids to help them in learning more about soap through the art and creativity. During this experience kids will personalize a little soap heart by using a methodology that resembles the industrial “melt and pour” process. In this way children will learn about physical state of matter and also they will recognize the odours by using special spices and herbs that they can add to their soap to customize their parfum. Then, with the use of the molds, they will give to their soap a special shape. And finally they can bring home their soap as a souvenir of this experience.
Duration: 15 min
Price: 6 euro per kid/soap
TimeTable: Soap lab for kids can be only booked with a tour at the Museum and they will start 15 min in advance with respect to the tour booked.
Soap and olives experience (Only for adults)
This experience is based on the main features of soap: ingredients, raw materials and so the land behind them. Our guests will be involved in a special tour at the soap museum. Then, there will be a workshop about how to make a soap starting from extra virgin olive oil. Our guests will have the possibility to choose among several ingredients like our citrus essential oils or fresh mediterranean herbs from our garden to personalize their own soap. We will make together this soap and our guests can collect it at the end of the experience to bring it with them at home.
Furthermore our guest will learn more about how to taste an extra virgin olive oil through a simple lesson and a panel test of our extra virgin olive oil. At the end of this experience, we will relax under an olive tree drinking a glass of a nice sicilian wine and tasting some special sicilian tapas and olives from our olive garden.
Duration: 2 h
Price: 35,00 euro per person
Time Table: High Season (1st June – 31st August)
Tuesday
17:00
Thursday
17:00
Saturday
17:00
Low Season (Rest of the year)
Tuesday
16:00
Thursday
16:00
Saturday
Not available
YOGA AND SICILIAN PARFUMES EXPERIENCE
Imagine a walk and to discover a stunning landscape where every step and movement of your body in harmony with your breath can join the sounds of nature, imagine to learn the history and the ethic behind the project of the soap museum by visiting the old building and imagine to smell the parfumes of the essential oils of Sicily and at the same time close your eyes to look inside of yourself what happens practicing yoga and meditating in the beauty of the sicilian countryside. This is what you will experience!
This experience includes a tour at the soap museum and a yoga lesson at the sunset at the olive garden of the museum. At the end you can taste a special tea/infusion made with local fresh mediterranean herbs.
Price: 60,00 euro per one person, reduction starting from 2 people fino up to maximun 10 people*
Time Table: High Season (1st June – 31st August)
Tuesday
18:00
Thursday
18:00
Saturday
18:00
Low Season (Rest of the year)
Tuesday
17:00
Thursday
17:00
Saturday
Not available
* Sales are depending on the number of people will book this experience.
COSMETIC BISTROT, MAKE YOUR OWN NATURAL SKINCARE PRODUCT (Adult only)
Imagine to have a seat at a table in a small bistrot, to have a look at the menù, not to try one of the amazing dishes but to try for your skin a lovely cosmetic we will make together. You will find a menù of the day where you can choose among different proposal, like for example a body lotion or a face cleanser, then choose one of these and we will make it together by using fresh ingredients from our farm and other ingredients we will propose you.
In the last years it became vey popular to make your own cosmetics and there are a lot of tutorials and video online. During this experience you will be guided by our cosmetologist and he will show you also some tricks you can use at home to make your own natural products. Then, there will be a tour of the soap museum and at the end of this experience we will relax by drinking an herbal tea made by using our own mediterranean herbs.
Duration: 2 h
Price: 40,00 euro per person
Time Table: High Season (1st June – 31st August)
Tuesday
11:30
Thursday
11:30
Sunday
19:00
Low Season (Rest of the year)
Tuesday
11:30
Thursday
11:30
Sunday
Not available
A BOTANICAL ADVENTURE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OLIVES
Extra virgin olive oil, the mediterranean green gold, used in the mediterranean diet and distinctive element of the culture of a region, directly produced with the olives of the trees that design the landscape of our island. During this experience we will have a walk in the olive grove surrounds the soap museum and we will discover lots of stories about the olives and also the botanical essences that defines the small botanical garden inside the olive plantation. Then, there will be a tour at the soap museum and we will discover one of the products derived from the olive oil.
We will finish this experience with a lesson about a panel test of extra virgin olive oil and we will have a snack based on olives.
Duration: 1,5 h
Price: 15,00 euro per person
Time Table: High Season (1st June – 31st August)
Monday
19:90
Wednesday
11:30
Friday
11:30
Low Season (Rest of the year)
Monday
Not available
Thursday
11:30
Friday
11:30