Learn how to make your own handmade and natural soap with this Beginner Soapmaking course. Find out how easy it is to make your very own soap based on natural ingredients. In this hands-on soapmaking workshop, you will learn about the different methods of creating handmade soaps. You will make 4 different soaps using a variety of natural oils, butter, milk, clays and botanicals, scented with a variety of essential oils or fragrance oils.
Course Outcome:
History and development of soapmaking
Differences between commercial and handmade soaps
Safe techniques
Soap making oils – what they bring to your recipe and the benefits for your skin
Essential or fragrance oil use – and working with the dermal limits for soap
Natural additives and their benefits – clays, minerals and botanicals
Benefits and differences of the various soapmaking methods
Saponification, curing, labels and packaging of soap
Lye calculators – how and why to use these for formulating your recipes
Learning Outcomes:
A basic knowledge of the different types of soapmaking methods
Knowledge about the ingredients used and their benefits
Make and take home approx. 1kg of handmade soap, made using your choice of scent, colour and decoration
Knowledge on how to formulate and make your handmade soaps at home in the future
Information on where to easily buy the ingredients
What You Will Get:
All tools and equipment to use in class
Safety equipment to use in class and take home with you
All ingredients and moulds for 4 different handmade soaps
A workbook with information on the different ingredients you can use, all instructions and lots of recipes
A handout with additional recipes
What to bring:
Please bring a pen with you to take notes
Allergy Disclaimer: The tutor provides all products supplied for use in this course. Ingredients mild to one person can cause a reaction in another. If you have any sensitivities to an ingredient provided you should not use that product. As with any bath and body product, if a rash or any irritation should occur, please discontinue use and check with your Doctor.
About the Tutor:
'Shirlee has been involved with handmade skincare products from a very early age. For example, she has been helping her grandmother make her handmade face and body moisturiser. Since then she’s continued crafting handmade items of all different kinds – including soaps, lotions, scrubs, and other body care items. In the beginning, these have been for gifts or personal/family use, until she created a few years ago business entity for retail and wholesale distribution of her items. Shirlee is a NICNAS registered soap maker and has taught soapmaking and other crafts to small groups and individuals, commencing with SGSCC in 2017 as a soapmaking and body care products tutor.'
Other Information:
To ensure resources are ready for you at the start of your course, we ask you ideally enrol at least one week before the course commences.
All courses need a minimum number of students to run ("we try our hardest to get those") . If your course does not have enough students it will be cancelled before the commencement and you will be informed.
$187Limited
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$177.70
Soap Making for Beginners
<p><p>Learn how to make your own handmade and natural soap with this Beginner Soapmaking course. Find out how easy it is to make your very own soap based on natural ingredients. In this hands-on
West side of Jannali, closest cross street is Louise Street. There is free onsite parking available and ample on road parking (not metered) if the car park is full.
Public Transport
From Jannali Station walk to the West side along Jannali railway (heading towards Sutherland), the fourth street on the right is Louise Street. Jannali Centre is at the end of Louise Street
Other Information
Accessible toilet and ground floor wheelchair access available Monday – Friday 9:00am-5:00pm, see Reception for directions to room. After hours and weekends look for the Site Co-ordinator for room directions. Onsite Cafe open Monday to Friday 8:00am-3:00pm, Sat 8:30am – 1:30pm. Outside these hours there are drink/snack vending machines onsite.