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We will walk you through the traditional cold process soap making method step by step, using natural ingredients right from your kitchen pantry. We will discuss setting up a soap making station, equipment usage, safe handling of sodium hydroxide, aka lye, key ingredient for soap making. This class will get you started with your own soap making kit built to use in class and take home after. This class is 2 hours long and held in our historic 1850 barn with a teaching space and commercial kitchen.
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Visit the 79-room Gilded Age mansion of financier and philanthropist Ogden Mills and his socially prominent wife Ruth Livingston Mills. See the elegant rooms, discover their lavish lifestyle, and learn about the staff that helped run this magnificent estate. Staatsburgh State Historic Site is open for walk-in tours Thursday through Sunday from 11am-5pm from April [...]