Workshop: Botanical Body Care
This practical, creative, hands-on workshop is designed to show you how to create simple, effective yet luxurious bath and body products using botanical materials and fragrant, therapeutic essential oils that you can tailor for yourself and others.
Learn how to combine simple ingredients to make three effective, eco-friendly yet luxurious bath and body treats to take home, with further suggestions on ingredients, blending and adapting recipes at home to continue your sustainable self-care skills.
We will look at how to combine ingredients safely and for personalised effects, understand good basic knowledge of key essential oils, herbs and other botanical extracts. This session is ideal for anyone who is interested in eco-friendly skincare, natural products and wishes to deepen their connection to plant based ingredients, and those looking for homemade gift inspiration!
Together we will explore:
● The benefits and uses of natural, botanical ingredients and essential oils
● How to create effective, simple bath soaks, scrubs and hand cream to maintain healthy skin and boost wellbeing
● How to combine essential oils safely for cosmetic, therapeutic and fragrant effect
● How to adapt recipes and blends and further develop creativity at home to make effective skincare for personal use and gifts.
You will leave this session with increased confidence and understanding of how simple natural ingredients can be used in your daily wellbeing and skincare regime, plus create 3 skin and bath-care products to take home, in addition to comprehensive notes with further suggestions on experimenting.
Please bring along a pen and notebook if you wish to make personal notes
Meet Tanya
Tanya (TIDHA, MIFPA) trained as a Clinical Aromatherapist, which led to further studies in natural perfumery and formulating. She now combines her clinical work with delivering events and workshops in aromatic blending, botanical skincare and perfumery; and provides conceptual fragrance ideas for events, heritage sites and public spaces. She has a passion for unusual ingredients, botanical history and use of plants in folklore. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @perfumemistress and find out more about her work on her website here https://www.theperfumemistress.com/
Price: £85/ Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. Each resident can claim 1 place per academic year (Sept 24- Jul 25). To check whether you are eligible, please click here.
To claim your free place, click ‘Book Here’ below, and enter code ‘SOUTHWARK25’ under ‘Redeem Coupon’.
You will then be charged a £10 deposit in order to claim your place, this deposit will be refunded to you after you attend the workshop.
Please note that you will be required to fill in a Southwark Council form, including some personal information, in order to confirm your place on a workshop. Your place will not be confirmed until this has been completed in full.
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