Saturday, August 15

Medicine-Making Intensive: Oils, Salves, Balms and Butters

This workshop is for those who want to experience making infused oil, salve, and natural beauty care.  Learn two methods for making medicinal infused oils, explore a variety of oil-based topical medicines and how to use each one, learn which herbs support skin health and healing, and explore ways to incorporate medicinal infused oils in your daily life.

$95      10 am-1 pm

Supplies, light snacks and beverages provided.

Workshop includes:

• Handout with recipes
• Instruction and demonstration: infused oils, salve, balms, butters and lotion bars.
• Medicine-making:
  • one 50 mL jar of infused oil
  • ~75 mL total  salve (in either six 0.5 oz tins or three 1 oz tins)
  • ~8 tubes of lip balm
  • Group project: lotion bars. Everyone will receive one 1-oz lotion bar to take home (valued at $10)
  • Altogether, the products that you make and take home are valued at over $130.

Teens are welcome to sign up.  This workshop is not recommended for children as it requires working over a hot stove, slowly melting wax into very hot oil over boiling water, then pouring the hot oil mixture into very small tubes and tins.

Instructor: Delena Rose Tsang, B.Sc., B.Ed., M.Ed, Certified Herbalist

Delena has been making her own oils, salves, balms and butters for over 15 years and loves making herbal body care with new friends.