Make Your Own Body Products – Soothing Salves and Luxurious Lotions
Come and learn how to make a range of gorgeous, inexpensive products for yourself, your family and your friends, and what’s more you will get to take them home. Course fee includes $30.00 for ingredients.
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Description
Do things the way your grandmother used to and make your own body products at home. Learn how to make herbal infused oils, salves, lotions and your own skin-soaking preparations using natural oils and waxes. This is especially helpful for those with sensitive skin.
All these products can be made at home on a budget and with love, and make wonderful gifts. Ingredients are easily ordered online for those who wish to continue making their own products. This is a creative, fun class for people of all abilities.
What to bring
Pen and paper. All ingredients are included in the course fee.
What you will get
- For the six-hour weekend workshop, you will take home a lip balm, healing salve and a body lotion scented with your individual choice of oils plus samples of some other products
- Recipes for reproducing all these products at home
What you will learn
- The process for making the products
- Handy hints and tips from a professional
- Knowledge of where to source ingredients
- About storage and preservatives - the importance of protecting products from contamination through safe preparation, storage, handling and use of appropriate preservatives*
*Olga will discuss her professional opinion on plant-based preservatives and will be recommending the use of Germal+ for the preservation of products made in this course (not compulsory use).
About the tutor
Dr Olga Garkavenko is the Managing Director of NZ Cosmeceuticals. She is a scientist in her own right in the field of biomedicine; she was, for a long time, affiliated with a leading biomedical company in New Zealand. She holds three patents related to regenerative medicine, and she has written numerous papers in scientific journals. Her work has been presented at many international conferences.
