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Crete: Create Your Own Traditional Cretan Soap

By Grigorios Giakoumakis
10 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is €42 per adult
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
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Overview
  • Enjoy the scent of traditional Cretan products during this workshop
  • Use olive oil that is produced locally without insecticides or fertilisers
  • Learn the skills to be able to produce your very own soap at home
  • Create your own traditional Cretan soap with extra virgin olive oil
  • Learn a unique craft that has been passed down through the generations
Activity location
    • Heraklion
    • Heraklion, Greece
Meeting/Redemption Point
    • Michail Vlachou 27, Iraklio 713 05, Greece | You can take the public transport (Bus No 4: "Mastampas" and stop at Bus-stop "Ieroloxiton 76 Daskalaki"), walk or come with your own car. Let us know if you need private transport from another place.
    • Iraklio, Greece

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Heraklion: Create Your Own Traditional Cretan Soap
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 10:00
Price details
€42.00 x 1 Adult€42.00
Total
Price is €42.00

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Soap workshop with a local
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Protective gear
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Tea with Cretan herbs
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Traditional Cretan cookies with olive oil
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Hotel transfer from areas outside of Heraklion
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Food and extra drinks

Know before you book

  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Travel back in time to when Cretan people used to make their own traditional homemade Cretan soap using only extra virgin olive oil. Make your own traditional soaps using recipes passed down through generations of the workshop leader's family.

Make your way to the meeting point to begin your workshop. Then, start making soap from scratch, and adjust the soap’s features — such as perfume, colour, or shape — to your tastes. With the help of your biochemist instructor, produce a product tailored to your needs.

The procedure is completely safe, even for young children, and no specific knowledge is required. Use your own hands and produce the purest cleaning product using only extra virgin Cretan olive oil, produced by your instructor’s family without insecticides or other chemicals.

At the end, take your soaps with you and they will be ready the next day as a souvenir to remember this unique experience as you take your shower. You can also take the step-by-step recipe home with you to make your own soap at home.

Location

Activity location
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    • Heraklion
    • Heraklion, Greece
Meeting/Redemption Point
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    • Michail Vlachou 27, Iraklio 713 05, Greece | You can take the public transport (Bus No 4: "Mastampas" and stop at Bus-stop "Ieroloxiton 76 Daskalaki"), walk or come with your own car. Let us know if you need private transport from another place.
    • Iraklio, Greece