Soap Making Basics
This course is perfect for those who want the purest soap for their family, friends, and for their own health. Soaps do not need to have tons of dyes and perfumes to smell lovely and do a great job of cleaning our bodies, our laundry and our homes. This basic soap making course is right on time for you to make your own handmade soaps as gifts for the holidays. Making soap yourself will not only save you an incredible amount of money, it is a basic skill that will reconnect you with your own needs and empower you to meet them.
Join us in person at the center or at one of our off site workshops in Edmonton, Westlock, or Athabasca. Our live workshops include instruction, one on one question and answering, detailed step by step instruction, recipes, soap making supplies for your first batch of soap which you will take home with you, and access to our online soap making video tutorials.
Who Is This Workshop For?
- First time soap makers
- People with skin sensitivities
- Parents who are concerned about chemicals being used in their homes
- Homesteaders who are looking for greater self-sufficiency
- People who enjoy crafts and want a practical hobby
- Those wanting to give homemade artisan gifts this holiday season
- Absolute novices who are completely freaked out by the idea of working with lye
What will I learn?
- All about the chemical process between fats, an alkaline solution (lye), scents and colourings that produces high quality soaps
- How to render fats for soap making
- How to use soap recipes and how to alter them to suit your needs
- How to select and use essential oils for creating healing soaps that smell wonderful
- Using herbs and minerals to colour soaps
- How to make “cold process” bars of soap
- The techniues and safety proceedures for making soaps
- The various pieces of equipment that can be used to make soap (don’t worry, you dont need much at all)
- How to build a soap mold or select items from around the house to use as a soap mold
- How to set, shape and cure your bars of soap
The ReSkilled Life has a very strong ethic of using locally available materials. We supply tallow and lard as the base for our soap making classes. However, if you are vegan and aim to make vegetable based soaps, the workshop will benefit you in all the same ways, we simply wont have a batch of soap for you to bring home at the end.
