Learn to Make Handmade Natural Soap
in Southwest France
The aim of our soap course is to learn to make soap at home easily from lye and vegetable oils using the cold process method.
To formulate one's own recipes, to work with noble natural ingredients, to magically transform liquid fats into beautiful solid bars of soap that will change the way you see soap as a skincare product are among the many pleasures that come from home soapmaking.
We wish to share our experience and make you satisfied and more conscious in your choice of cosmetics products.
The course takes place over 2 days in Sauveterre de Béarn, Pyrénées Atlantiques (64). This soap course will give you all the basics so that once back home you will be able to make the richest soap bars that you ever imagined for the pure delight of your skin (and your family and freinds).
At the bottom of this page click on soap process for a taste of what you are going to learn.
THE WEEK-END PROGRAM
- Soap: what is it and why make your own ?
- Cold process soap: safety rules, step by step procedures, recipe formulating, unique recipes.
- Equipment, ingredients and their properties, suppliers etc.
- Demos and lots of practical work
Courses are held in a large country guest house, comfortable and roomy with everything needed to welcome you...
Rooms are available at reasonable rates.
Please contact us for availability of dates for soap courses in English
Courses are from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm on first day and from 9 am to 4.30 the second day.
Price per person is: 255 €
It includes:
- 2 day workshop
- Ingredients (oils, lye, essential oils, etc) used during the course
- Soap making equipment
- Complete course document with recipes
- 2 delicious home cooked mid-day meals (wine included of coarse) and...
- Your creations during the course are yours to take home !!
Each student is asked to bring her/his own apron, rubber or latex gloves, notebook and a calculator.
Rooms are available in the guest house at the Gîte LEPEHAU (www.lepehau.com - tel: +33 5 59 38 95 32).
Double: 1 night 45 € - 2 nights 80 € - 3 nights 115 €
Single: 1 night 40 € - 2 nights 70 € - 3 nights 100 €
(towels and bedsheets provided, breakfast and tourist tax included, shared bathroom, light farm's diner 10 € the night before)
To situate us, click here.
If you would like a registration form, please send us your postal address and we will post it to you.
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N.B. For your information, this course is for hobbyists, not to learn soapmaking on a professional level. As well as respecting legislative obligations, a soapmaking apprentice must also and above all acquire confidence and experience that only can come from a lot of practice on your part before thinking of taking the interest to another level.
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