Natural Soap Making Course
Sat 15 Jul
|Beewell Demonstration Garden
A two-day soap making course - traditional method using lye - 'cold process'. Learn how to make and take home your own herbal infused oil, 11 bars of herbal soap, and design your own handprinted bags (using wild plants) that house the soap beautifully!
Time & Location
15 Jul 2023, 12:00 – 16 Jul 2023, 16:00
Beewell Demonstration Garden, Cardross Estate, Port of Menteith, By FK8 3JY, UK
About the Event
On this two day course you will visit and harvest herbs at the Herbal Homestead garden, and have access to the Beewell Bothy and workshop space for your preparations. Each day the course will run from 12 noon to 4pm.
You will meet Calendula (Calendula officinalis) and Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica), learning how to use these plants in the following ways;
- Sowing/ growing/ harvesting (taking your own calendula plant home)
- Enjoy calendula & nettle 'tea' tasting
- How to dry and store these herbs for tea making
- Preparing calendula & nettle for oil infusions (used in soap, creams, or as it is) - taking home your own infused oil
Tickets
Natural Soap Making Course
£155.00
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