Soap Making The Easy Way (using Melt & Pour soap bases)

Date: Sunday October 3rd
Time: 10:30am – 5:00pm
Fee: $160.00 Inclusive of all materials – Take home your creations)

Prepare to be inspired with stylish and innovative soap crafting the easy way, utilising Melt & Pour soap bases, natural colours, herbs, oils and fragrances. Ideal for gift giving or to dazzle your bathroom, and to know what is really in your bath soaps.

Click here to download an enrolment form or email Donna for further details

Course Notes:

• All workshop fees are inclusive of all materials. Take home your creations
• These workshops and classes will be held on the listed dates only and NOT repeated (in 2010)
• Class numbers are strictly limited to a maximum of 10 students.
• Please book early to ensure your place.
• Please bring notebook and pen to each class and your lunch where applicable.
• No enrolment accepted unless accompanied by completed enrolment form and deposit. (Visa and Mastercard accepted)
• Should a class not proceed – deposit paid will be fully refunded.
• Please arrive on time for selected workshop.

Venue: Cottage Hill Herb Farm2 Bridge Rd, Birchville, Upper Hutt Phone: (04) 526 4753 Fax: (04) 526 4751For driving directions to Cottage Hill Herbs please click here

Bath Bombs, Bath Fizzes & Bath Scrubbies

Date: Sunday September 26th
Time: 10:30am – 5:00pm
Fee: $140.00 (Inclusive of all materials – Take home your creations)

Transform your bath time into a truly pampering and relaxing experience with your own gorgeous bath creations. Easy, inexpensive and uniquely fragrant treats for gift giving this Christmas, or your own bath care with a difference.

Click here to download an enrolment form or email Donna for further details

Course Notes:

• All workshop fees are inclusive of all materials. Take home your creations
• These workshops and classes will be held on the listed dates only and NOT repeated (in 2010)
• Class numbers are strictly limited to a maximum of 10 students.
• Please book early to ensure your place.
• Please bring notebook and pen to each class and your lunch where applicable.
• No enrolment accepted unless accompanied by completed enrolment form and deposit. (Visa and Mastercard accepted)
• Should a class not proceed – deposit paid will be fully refunded.
• Please arrive on time for selected workshop.

Venue: Cottage Hill Herb Farm2 Bridge Rd, Birchville, Upper Hutt Phone: (04) 526 4753 Fax: (04) 526 4751For driving directions to Cottage Hill Herbs please click here

Creating natural skin care products

A two day basic intensive workshop designed to show you how simple, easy and cost effective it is to create your own superior, chemical free beautiful skincare products.

Over the course of two days you will learn to make your own base creams, herbal infused oils etc. study which herbs and natural ingredients are the most effective in rejuvenating, healing and improving the look, texture and health of your skin.

You will learn how to make over fifteen unique, specialized natural skin and body care products worth hundreds of dollars and you will take these home with you at the end of each day. No experience is necessary – we set you on a new and exciting path to formulating all of your personal skincare products free of any chemical contamination, and customized to suit your skins unique needs.

Dates:
Saturday June 19th
Sunday June 20th
Time: 10.30am – 5.00pm
Fee: $340.00 Inclusive of all materials
Credits: 7

Click here to download an enrolment form or email Donna for further details
During the workshop you will make and take home:

Base creams – Two types
Herbally infused oil
Healing hand cream
Skin and body oil
Moisturiser
Cleanser
Body scrub
Facial masks
Exfoliater
Lip Balm
Body Butter
Nourishing face cream
Shampoo
Conditioner

Course Notes:

• All workshop fees are inclusive of all materials. Take home your creations
• These workshops and classes will be held on the listed dates only and NOT repeated (in 2010)
• Class numbers are strictly limited to a maximum of 10 students.
• Please book early to ensure your place.
• Please bring notebook and pen to each class and your lunch where applicable.
• No enrolment accepted unless accompanied by completed enrolment form and deposit. (Visa and Mastercard accepted)
• Should a class not proceed – deposit paid will be fully refunded.
• Please arrive on time for selected workshop.

Venue: Cottage Hill Herb Farm2 Bridge Rd, Birchville, Upper Hutt Phone: (04) 526 4753 Fax: (04) 526 4751For driving directions to Cottage Hill Herbs please click here

Clay is a wonderful way to introduce a new, personalized treatment into your salon or create your own day spa at home! Making up a skin care treatment is simple and keeps you in control of the exact ingredients you use.

1. Cleanse skin with your cleanser.

2. Tone skin with hydrosol:
a. German Chamomile–Anti inflammatory, gentle and calming.
b. Lavender–All skins, including mildly blemished skin.
c. Orange Flower-Helps to balance oily skin.
d. Rose–All skins, particularly sensitive or mature.
e. Rosemary–Refreshing and stimulating for normal to oily skin.
f. Watermelon–Cooling, toning and soothing.
g. Witch Hazel–Slightly more astringent and stimulating, suitable for sallow or tired skin.
h. Manuka-Excellent for troubled skin.
i. Eucalyptus-Helpful for troubled skin.
j. Neroli-Lovely in cleansing products.

3. Mix 1 level tablespoon clay to a thick paste with hydrosol. Use as an exfoliant. Massage into the skin, wetting fingers to aid manipulation. The fine grains in the clay will gently exfoliate the dead skin cells. Allow to dry. The drying action of the clay (green being the most absorbent) will absorb toxins and draw impurities to the surface of the skin (this will help extraction).

4. Wash mask away with water.

5. Apply cool compress with one drop Lavender oil or spray face with hydrosol of choice.

OR

6. You can apply different clays to different parts of your face for example red clay around the eye area, pink on the cheeks and green on the oily “T”.

7. Remove clay with hot towels or water and finish with a hot aromatic compress.

8. Massage the skin using Jojoba oil (known for its soothing nature and compatibility to the skin) and a selection of essential oils at 1% dilution levels.

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For an alternative hair treatment, mix the clay with water, add your selection of essential oils (depending on the hair type) and coat wet hair and scalp with clay. Leave to dry and shampoo out (it is not necessary to shampoo beforehand). The white clay or moroccan red is excellent to help scalp conditions and greasy hair.

As a hair mask, it soaks up dirt, cleans hair and scalp. Its antiseptic capabilities stimulate blood microcirculation and gives volume to hair. Wash the clay out thoroughly. For best results use twice a week.

General directions for use

In a glass/porcelain bowl mix 2-4 teaspoons with a hydrosol or water (do not use metal in contact with clay as this detracts from the benefits of the clay). Make a paste to suit your preferred consistency, the thicker the paste the better the action.

If any clay is left over after use, it will stay fresh in a screw top glass jar for up to two weeks. Cover with 2cm of distilled water to keep moist and pour off water before using with your next application. Do not re-use used clay.

As a face pack leave in place for up to thirty minutes or until pack starts to firm and dry, then wash off thoroughly.

For body care mix clay and apply all over the body. Allow to dry, then shower off, following with your favourite body care oil.

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