A hands-on afternoon of seasonal aromatherapy and botanical making. Together we’ll create a layered botanical milk bath, winter facial oil and botanical lip balm – making five finished preparations to keep and give, while learning the simple formulation skills to continue making at home.
There is something particularly lovely about making at this time of year – gathering a few simple ingredients, learning how to work with them, and turning them into useful and beautiful preparations for our own homes and for the people we love.
The Christmas Apothecary is a hands-on afternoon of seasonal aromatherapy and botanical making, rooted in the simple skills behind creating your own home apothecary.
Together we’ll make three different preparations: a layered botanical milk bath, a winter facial oil and a botanical lip balm. Along the way, we’ll explore the ingredients we’re working with – from salts, oats, milk and dried botanicals to carrier oils, waxes and essential oils – learning what they bring to a formulation, how to work with them safely and how seemingly simple ingredients can be used in many different ways.
Rather than simply following three recipes, we’ll use each preparation to learn a different way of making with aromatic and botanical ingredients at home – and how those same basic formulation skills can be adapted to make other things for your own home apothecary.
We’ll explore aromatic blending as we make, get hands-on with different carrier oils, and learn the simple principles behind creating an oil-and-wax balm – including how that same method can be adapted at home to make preparations such as an aromatic winter chest balm.
And because it’s Christmas, we’ll make two of our most giftable preparations: one to keep and one to give. You’ll leave with two layered botanical milk baths, your own winter facial oil and two botanical lip balms, together with a reusable muslin bath bag and a Subtle Medicine recipe booklet so you can continue making at home.
No previous experience is needed. All ingredients, equipment and packaging are provided.
Take a little time for yourself – we’d love to see you here.