Bring 4 old bath towels and a 16 x 16 x 16 box or two large brown paper grocery bags to take your soaps home. If you prefer your own goggles and gloves, bring them. Students must be age 18 or older. Payment confirms your workshop registration. If you would like assistance completing the online registration, do not hesitate to call Lori.
Typically many of our workshops are scheduled in the early part of the year and several in the fall. If you would like to host a private workshop to fit your schedule see the information below and contact Lori for details. This workshop day includes two sessions and is from am to approx pm. Students receive a notebook for each session. This is a hands-on workshop where each person takes home 16 bars of soap.
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Winston- Salem, NC Phone: Banana Factory 25 W. Metalledwith Boiling Springs, PA. Tuscarora Lapidary Society 24 Upland Rd. Brookhaven, PA information lapidary. PA Guild of Craftsmen N. Queen Street Lancaster, PA, Soapmaking is an intermediate to advanced soapmaking class that covers the different types of colorants and scent materials for use in making soap, their manufacture and extraction methods, their effectiveness, and the strengths at which they should be used in cold process soap, hot process soap, and melt and pour soap.
Students are taught how to color and scent soap safely and effectively, how to determine if too much colorant has been used in a bar of soap, and the possible dangers of over-coloring soap. Lab includes swirling two colors into cold process soap and extracting essential oils from plants by using a steam distillation unit.
Students are also taught to easily extract essential oils and hydrosols from plants through an alternative method using a large stock pot. Soap Garden is a gardening and ingredient preparation class. Students learn techniques for growing their own herbs and plants to use as soap ingredients. Then they learn how to dry, crush, and grind the dried herbs and how much of each dried plant to add to the soap for color and texture.
Classroom lecture includes a list of toxic plants that should not be used in soapmaking. Subject matter includes green gardening practices to save water while sustaining a suitable wildlife habitat.
The information presented also includes plants recommended by the California Department of Forestry for being fire resistant and native southern California plants used in soapmaking. Attend in person. Maximum enrollment: 12 students in person. Register for Soap Garden Soapmaking explains the dangers and secret techniques of substituting other fluids for the water portion of cold and hot process soapmaking.
The class includes a live demonstration of soap cupcakes made with seasonal fruits instead of water and topped with piped soap frosting made with milk instead of water. Soap Business is a beginning business class for anyone interested in forming a new business. This class focuses on the applications, fees, licenses, and permits required to form a legal business entity.
Students also learn how to determine costs, set prices for handmade products, and determine profit. Discussion includes suggestions for staying motivated, creative, and competitive within the handmade products industry. Register for Soap Business Soap Business is a branding business course for retailers selling handcrafted goods.
Learn to add the finishing touches to complete both your product image and overall company image. Help customers identify your products and your company by creating a unique and consistent persona across all media.
Solid branding enhances consumer trust, increase sales, and improves customer loyalty. Whether you sell soap, cosmetics, candles, jewelry, pottery, or any other handmade item, Soap Business class will help you improve your brand.
Students are encouraged to bring product packaging and printed items such as business cards or company paperwork for discussion and critique during the class. Soap Business is an intermediate business class that covers the federal and local regulations for labeling soap. Students learn to distinguish soap from cosmetics or drugs and their appropriate labeling laws.
This class also presents several inexpensive and effective marketing tips to promote the sale of handmade soap. Students are encouraged to bring a sample soap label for discussion and critique during the class. Soap Business is a soap wrapping class, in which students learn how to apply shrink wrap film to soap quickly and effectively so little or no film is wasted. This class covers the benefits of wrapping soap, which include protecting the soap from damage and preserving a sanitary bar of soap.
Students are encouraged to bring a minimum of 4 bars of their own soap to shrink wrap in the class. Many different types of shrink machines and films are discussed in class. If the exact Shrink Wrap Kit used in class is right for packaging your products, you may purchase the Shrink Wrap Kit used in class from our website.
Soap Business presents students with information necessary to successfully ship soap domestically and internationally. Students learn how to package soap to prevent dents and damage, how to use biodegradable shipping materials, how to meet United States Customs requirements for shipping commodities internationally, the fastest shipping methods, and how to get discounted shipping rates, including discounts on US postage.
Also, learn to ensure successful deliveries by verifying recipient addresses in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. Students are invited to bring recipient address information and finished labeled bars of soap that are ready to be shipped, in order to correctly pack and secure the soap for shipping during the class.
During the class, if time permits, students may purchase a shipping label and schedule a carrier pickup. Soap Business is designed for both students who currently have confusing or low-performing websites and for students who do not have websites. In this understandable and thorough class, learn about domain names and hosting packages.
Also, learn to create your own website for free, optimize keywords, rank high on search engines, and verify your site code is valid. Finally, setup PayPal payment buttons and start selling on the Internet. Soap Business is a peer review class for students who have a new product ready to launch. Offering a new product for sale can be stressful; this class is designed to build student confidence and successful sales. During this semi-private session, students present finished products for review and discussion.
The instructor and fellow students focus on the positive aspects of the products, suggest improvements to increase sales, assess the packaging to ensure it meets legal requirements, analyze the sale price to maximize both crafter profit and shopper value, and examine the online sales venue for an agreeable shopping experience.
To participate in the roundtable, a student must bring a finished product, complete with packaging and labeling. If an online sales venue such as a website, a social media store, or an eBay or Etsy store is ready for review, then the website or online store may also be reviewed during the roundtable. Soap Business is scheduled before or after other classes. Maximum enrollment: 6 students in person and 4 students online.
In Aromatherapy Natural Perfume Class , learn the basics of aromatherapy and natural perfumery. Unveil the secrets of blending essential oils by using scent categories and fragrance notes. Design custom fragrances from essential oils aromatherapeutically created to inspire specific emotions and memory triggers. Learn the different techniques for blending perfumes in a bases of natural grain alcohol, in a base of jojoba oil, and in a base of cyclomethicone.
Create your own natural perfumes in the class and take them home. Register for Aromatherapy Natural Perfume Class. In Bath Bomb Class learn how to create active treats for the tub. Students learn the secrets of making exceptional bath bombs, bath fizzy tablets, and bath salts. While most easy recipes include the simple process of creating bath fizzies using fats as a sealer to prevent reaction to air, this Bath Bomb Class includes the advanced techniques necessary to create bath fizzies without oils, so they won't leave a dangerously greasy bathtub the way oils do.
In order to formulate and make no fail bath bombs , this new course includes an explanation of the chemistry of the fizzing reaction occurring between the starting reactants and the chemistry of the products yielded from the reaction and how they benefit bath water and skin. Also, learn to make greywater-safe bath bombs without oil or sodium-based salts, which can kill plants when introduced into greywater systems.
Students take home bath treats made in class. Register for Bath Bomb Class. Lip Balm Making Class focuses on simple lip balm making procedures for consistent and effective lip products, including lip tubes and balms in pot style jars.
Techniques include how to create a twist tube of lip balm without problematic "sinkholes. Material relates to other tube products, such as solid lotion sticks for softening stretch marks, elbows, and heels and solid menthol rub sticks. Register for Lip Balm Making Class. In this beginning-through-advanced Lotion Making Science class, take a scientific, hands-on approach to learning different methods and techniques for making lotion.
Students learn to make small, test batches of lotion and how to increase the recipe to make larger batches. Gain confidence by learning how a batch of lotion that has separated or gone wrong can always be salvaged. Understand the importance of emulsifiers and emulsification systems: what they are and how they work.
Perform scientific test experiments to prove whether or not common lotion ingredients such as lecithin, polysorbate, and stearic acid act as emulsifiers.
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