(Using Melt & Pour Soap Bases)

Date: Sunday 1st of April
Time: 10:30am – 5:00pm
Fee: $175.00 (Inclusive of all materials)

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.

During this fun workshop you will create gorgeous goat’s milk soaps, clear translucent soaps, natural olive soaps, imbedded soaps and stunningly beautiful felted soaps. All to take home on the day.

Please Note:

• All workshops are inclusive of all materials supplied. No further costs are involved. Students take home full size products produced in each workshop.
• Class numbers are strictly limited to eight students only. Please book early to ensure your place.
• Enrolments are only accepted with completed enrolment form and deposit.
• Should a class not proceed – deposit paid will be fully refunded.
• Please bring a notebook and pen and lunch if full-day workshop

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

Lip Balms & Lip Glosses

Date: Thursday 12th of April
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Fee: $89.00 (Inclusive of all materials)

Learn to create beautiful healing lip balms and fun lip glosses to delight your senses, family and friends. We use only pure, chemically free natural ingredients.

During this fun and fragrant workshop you will make and take home: -

• 1 Lip gloss
• 1 Tinted lip gloss
• 1 Healing lip balm
• 3 Lip balm tubes of your choice

A total value of more than $50.00

Please Note:

• All workshops are inclusive of all materials supplied. No further costs are involved. Students take home full size products produced in each workshop.
• Class numbers are strictly limited to eight students only. Please book early to ensure your place.
• Enrolments are only accepted with completed enrolment form and deposit.
• Should a class not proceed – deposit paid will be fully refunded.
• Please bring a notebook and pen and lunch if full-day workshop

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

Creating a Chemical Free Home

Date: Sunday 15th of April
Time: 10:30am – 5:00pm
Fee: $125.00 (Inclusive of all materials)

During this interesting and creative workshop, you will discover how very important it has now become to eliminate toxic chemicals from your kitchen, bathroom, laundry and household in general. Save around $600 per year by creating your own safe, pure and truly natural alternatives to these chemical nasties. Improve the health and wellbeing of your entire family by making your own household cleaning products, using only environmentally safe, chemical free ingredients.

You will make and take home: -

• 1 Antibacterial surface spray
• 1 Natural hand sanitizer
• 1 Toothpowder
• 1 Washing powder
• 1 Cleaning paste / powder
• 1 Oven cleaner

A total value of $90.00

Please Note:

• All workshops are inclusive of all materials supplied. No further costs are involved. Students take home full size products produced in each workshop.
• Class numbers are strictly limited to eight students only. Please book early to ensure your place.
• Enrolments are only accepted with completed enrolment form and deposit.
• Should a class not proceed – deposit paid will be fully refunded.
• Please bring a notebook and pen and lunch if full-day workshop

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

Date: Thursday 8th of March
Time: 6:30pm – 10:00pm
Fee: $110.00 (Inclusive of all materials)

During this workshop we will show you how simple it is to make your own healing ointments, salves & chest rubs from beeswax, herbally infused oils and pure essential oils. We create pure, natural, superior products from wild crafted plants, organic herbs & oils at a fraction of the cost of the chemical nasties.

You will make & take home: -

• 1 Wound healing salve
• 1 Skin problem ointment
• 1 Pain relieving ointment
• 1 Herbally infused skin oil
• 1 chest rub ointment

A total value of $70.00

Please Note:

• All workshops are inclusive of all materials supplied. No further costs are involved. Students take home full size products produced in each workshop.
• Class numbers are strictly limited to eight students only. Please book early to ensure your place.
• Enrolments are only accepted with completed enrolment form and deposit.
• Should a class not proceed – deposit paid will be fully refunded.
• Please bring a notebook and pen and lunch if full-day workshop

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

Creating Natural Baby Care Products

Date: Saturday 11th of March
Time: 10:30am – 5:00pm
Fee: $245.00 (Inclusive of all materials)

During this creative workshop, students will learn to make a range of natural chemically free baby and child care products. Learn which herbs, oils, essential oils etc are safe, effective ingredients to use for your children’s products. We make eczema creams, diaper creams, lotions, shampoo, anti-colic and massage oils for your child’s specific needs. A workshop for those wishing to eliminate nasty chemicals from their babies life and/or for those looking to start a business based on truly natural baby care.

During this intensive workshop, you will make and take home: -

• 1 Soothing massage oil
• 1 Eczema cream
• 1 Anti-colic oil
• 1 Diaper rash cream
• 1 Baby shampoo
• 1 Nourishing lotion

A total value of $125.00

Please Note:

• All workshops are inclusive of all materials supplied. No further costs are involved. Students take home full size products produced in each workshop.
• Class numbers are strictly limited to eight students only. Please book early to ensure your place.
• Enrolments are only accepted with completed enrolment form and deposit.
• Should a class not proceed – deposit paid will be fully refunded.
• Please bring a notebook and pen and lunch if full-day workshop

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

Wild Weeds as Food & Medicine

Date: Sunday 25th of March
Time: 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Fee: $75.00 (Inclusive of all materials)

An informative and cost saving workshop looking at the amazing culinary, medicinal and money saving uses of the common weeds of our gardens and fields. Learn to recognise them, use them for their huge vitamin, mineral & nutrient value and how to prepare them and/or turn them into an easily prepared medicine. Bring a camera to this workshop. This is an outdoor class, although you will make one product to take home, plus cuttings & seedlings.

Please Note:

• All workshops are inclusive of all materials supplied. No further costs are involved. Students take home full size products produced in each workshop.
• Class numbers are strictly limited to eight students only. Please book early to ensure your place.
• Enrolments are only accepted with completed enrolment form and deposit.
• Should a class not proceed – deposit paid will be fully refunded.
• Please bring a notebook and pen and lunch if full-day workshop

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

Date: Saturday 25th of February and Sunday 26th of February
Time: 10:30am – 5:00pm
Fee: $395.00 (Inclusive of all materials, take home your creations)

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.

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

Please Note:

• All workshops are inclusive of all materials supplied. No further costs are involved. Students take home full size products produced in each workshop.
• Class numbers are strictly limited to eight students only. Please book early to ensure your place.
• Enrolments are only accepted with completed enrolment form and deposit.
• Should a class not proceed – deposit paid will be fully refunded.
• Please bring a notebook and pen and lunch if full-day workshop

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

This much requested two day workshop is specifically designed to show mothers how to create truly pure, unadulterated natural products for new babies, toddlers, young children and for “the mother to be”.
Many of the chemicals found in personal care and baby care products today, especially in New Zealand and Australia, have been banned in many other parts of the world. The importance of keeping our children chemical free, especially during their early formative years, cannot be stressed enough. Chemicals found in commonly used everyday household products often have profound effects on the tiny growing bodies of young children and babies, because they are much more susceptible than adults to toxins. (Toxic chemicals equal toxic bodies).

We will show you the best and safest herbs to use in your products, how to process and extract them and how to create uniquely pure and natural products for your family and yourself.
We will look at what makes children more susceptible to everyday chemicals and how best we can clean up our household environments to strengthen immunity and general health within our family.

You will create and take home full size products of:
• 1 Baby bottom cream
• 1 Cradle cap oil
• 1 Natural baby talcum powder
• 1 Baby massage oil
• 1 Calming baby/child bath milk
• 1 Anti – colic oil
• 1 Baby/child hair shampoo
• 1 Baby/child hair conditioner
• 1 Eczema cream
• 1 Nipple cream
• 1 Belly butter
• 1 Stretch mark prevention cream
• 1 Varicose vein/haemorrhoid ointment

A total value of more than $250

During this fun workshop you will be shown how to not only eliminate the toxic chemicals from your home, but you will learn how cost effective it is to create your own childcare friendly products.

Your friends and family will be begging for you to make these beautiful products for their children also. Should you already be producing products for sale – these specific products will give you almost a complete range of children and “mothers to be” products.

Note: Please book early. Class numbers are strictly limited with places usually booked out early. Enrolment form and deposit required to secure your place.

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

(Stuck for affordable Christmas gift ideas this year?)

During this creative fun and fragrant day, we will show you how easy and cost effective it is to make these unique one of a kind gifts to delight your friends and family.
The stunning products you will create during this workshop do not contain any synthetic chemicals and will be produced form safe, natural chemical free ingredients sourced from only natural ingredients, herbs and spices.

During this one day workshop you will make and take home full size beautiful products of:
• 1 Roll on perfume
• 2 Solid perfumes
• 1 Cologne
• 1 Fragrant talcum powder
• 1 Glitter lip gloss
• 1 lip serum
• 1 body mousse
• 1 Luxurious bath milk
• 2 Impressive bath bombs

A total value of more than $125

Note: Please book early. Class numbers are strictly limited with places usually booked out early. Enrolment form and deposit required to secure your place.

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

This is the third of this natural skincare series. It is recommended that you have completed one and two series of workshops, as they are each designed to follow on easily from each other. It is possible to complete these workshops outside of sequence, however the student may find some gaps in their knowledge if choosing to do so out of sequence.

During this fun and fragrant weekend, we will cover more indepth herbal processing, extracting and combining of specific herbs as they relate to natural skincare formulating.

Additional topics included:
• The properties of fats and oils.
• Herbal protein powders.
• Skin Nutrients.
• Thickeners, Stabilisers and Co – Emulsifiers.

You will create and take home full size products of:
• 1 Body bronzer (no chemical content)
• 1 Body mousse
• 1 Bath syrup
• 1 Foaming bath butter
• 1 Whipped cream Shea nut butter
• 1 Skin firming gel
• 1 Oil based cleanser
• 1 Perfumed body spray
• 1 Shaving cream
• 1 Sun block cream
• 1 Effervescent foot soak
• 1 Cooling foot lotion
• 2 Bath meringues

A value of more than $275

One again, during this workshop, more high end creations will be produced, giving you “the edge” for some of the most popular and highly saleable natural products for your range. Many of these creative items make beautiful gifts that will amaze your friends and family and bring you an income increase if you are already marketing products.

Note: Please book early. Class numbers are strictly limited with places usually booked out early. Enrolment form and deposit required to secure your place.

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

The second workshop in a series, designed for those who have completed the first natural skincare weekend, and who now wish to further their knowledge, create more products and develop a larger range of top end highly saleable skincare, body & bath care, and hair care creations. You will be expanding your existing knowledge with more in depth emulsification techniques, learning to blend many unusual, but natural ingredient forms of herbs, powders etc into creams, lotions, gels, milks and skin & body care products.

You will learn to identify many more herbs used specifically for treating skin conditions as well as the theory and research behind their usage. You will harvest, extract and process these to include in your skincare ranges, helping you not only to identify nature’s gifts more fully, but to experience first hand their impressive regenerating abilities.

These unique natural herbal extracts will give your products not only the edge over other “so called natural products” but will also allow you to produce raw ingredients at minimal cost, whilst providing truly pure extracts for your skincare range.

Subjects also covered during workshop will include:
• Using colour in your creams, lotions, lip balms etc.
• Skin PH, the acid mantle, PH testing for product stability and shelf life.
• Different types of emulsifying waxes and their usage.
• The properties of natural butters.
• Using active ingredients in skin creams.

Make and take home these beautiful full size creations of:
• 1 Firming face and neck cream
• 1 Eye – serum
• 1 Foaming facial scrub
• 1 Eye – makeup remover
• 1 Eye nutrient cream
• 1 Lip serum
• 2 Lip glosses
• 1 Gel based body scrub
• 1 Gel and cream based moisturiser
• 3 Deodorants (1 Spray, 1 Roll-on, 1 Solid stick)
• 1 Silky velvet body butter
• 1 Fresh herb tincture
• 1 Dried herb glycerite
A total value of almost $300

Note: Please book early. Class numbers are strictly limited with places usually booked out early. Enrolment form and deposit required to secure your place.

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

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.

During this 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

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

Wild Weeds As Food & Medicine

Date:Sunday 13th of February
Time: 10:30am – 4:30pm
Fee: $89.00 (Inclusive of all materials)

An informative and money saving look at the amazing culinary and medicinal uses of the common weeds of our gardens and wild walkways. Learn how to use them for their vitamin, mineral and nutrient value – how to prepare them and how to turn them into useful and easily prepared medicinal products. Take home plants and medicinal products.

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

Chest Rubs & Oils

Date:Thursday 24th of February
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Fee: $85.00 (Inclusive of all materials)

Learn how to create your own ointments, salves and chest rubs from common garden weeds and herbs that grow easily around us.

You will make and take home:
• Infused Oils
• Wound Ointment
• Healing Salve for treating eczema, skin problems etc
• Chest Rub for bronchial and respiratory conditions

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

March 2011

Creating Natural Skincare Products

(Two Day Intensive Workshop)

Date:Saturday 5th and Sunday the 6th of March
Time: 10:30am – 5:00pm
Fee: $340.00 (Inclusive of all materials)

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.

Note: Please book early. Class numbers are strictly limited with places usually booked out early. Enrolment form and deposit required to secure your place.

During the workshop you will make and take home:

• Base cream
• Herbally infused oil
• Healing hand cream
• Skin and body oil
• Moisturiser
• Cleanser
• Body scrub
• Facial masks
• Exfoliater
• Lip Balm
• Shampoo
• Conditioner

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

April 2011

Soap Making The Easy Way

(Using Melt & Pour Soap Bases)

Date:Saturday 10th of April
Time: 10:30am – 5:00pm
Fee: $160.00 (Inclusive of all materials, take home your creations)

An informative and money saving look at the amazing culinary and medicinal uses of the common weeds of our gardens and wild walkways. Learn how to use them for their vitamin, mineral and nutrient value – how to prepare them and how to turn them into useful and easily prepared medicinal products. Take home plants and medicinal products.

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

May 2011

More Creative Melt & Pour Soap Making

Date:Sunday 1st of May
Time: 10:30am – 5:00pm
Fee: $180.00 (Inclusive of all materials)

This is a follow on from our most popular soap making basic melt & pour course. During this highly fragrant day we will explore soaps for specific skin problems and ages. You will learn fun and easy methods to make a variety of shapes and sizes, embedding techniques, colour combining, using clays, micas and pigments. Hand made melt and pour soaps are safe, easy and very creative to make from pure natural ingro.

During this workshop you will make and take home: -

• Shaving Soap
• Goats Milk Soaps
• Gardeners Soap
• Babies and children’s soaps
• Loaf – style soaps
• Re-milled soaps
• Butter bars
• Layered soaps

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

Date:Saturday 6th of November
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.

During this fun workshop you will create gorgeous goat’s milk soaps, clear translucent soaps, natural olive soaps, imbedded soaps and stunningly beautiful felted soaps. All to take home on the day.

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