Workshop: Natural Cleaning Solutions
Tap into a cleaner, greener home environment, avoid waste and excessive plastic use by learning how to make your own economical and eco-friendly cleaning products. In this practical and informative hands-on workshop, we will look at the role of some popular essential oils and explore a range of accessible ingredients and how they can be used to tackle a number of household cleaning conundrums and bring vim to your Spring Cleaning projects. Many simple ingredients can be found in the home that have a multitude of uses when it comes to keeping your home clean and sweet-smelling whilst reducing our environmental impact, they are also friendly on the wallet. We will look at how to get started with economical household ingredients so that you can adapt products and recipes to target cleaning for bathroom, kitchen, carpets etc.
Together we will explore:
Key essential oils to use in home cleaning and home fragrance
Your hero ingredients (such as vinegar, citrus fruits, bicarbonate of soda etc), their uses, and how to combine them
Safety, dilutions, storage, creating a formula and record keeping
Tips and tricks for further cleaning solutions at home
How to make 3 simple, effective products to take home with you
You will leave this session with 3 take-home products and workshop notes with cleaning tips and recipe suggestions for further practise and use at home.
This session is ideal for anyone who has an interest in natural cleaning solutions and wishes to find new ideas to use up common ingredients and avoid waste in the home.
Please bring along notebook and pen if you wish to take personal notes. In the spirit of re-use/recycle, if you do have CLEAN, spray bottles or small jars/pots approx. 100g/ml size, please bring them along. However, we can provide these.
Meet Tanya
Tanya (TIDHA, MIFPA) trained as a Clinical Aromatherapist, which led to further studies in natural perfumery. She now combines her clinical work with delivering events and workshops in blending, botanical skincare and perfumery; and provides conceptual fragrance ideas for events, museums 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.
Price: £85
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