How to Formulate Natural and Organic Skincare Like a Pro
Formulate your brand’s signature facial oil
in just 8 steps.
Start formulating from scratch and create your first product formula the professional way.
Use our signature product development process to create products that customers need, want and love – and keep coming back to buy more.
Introducing How to Formulate Natural and Organic Skincare Like a Pro
In this short course, you will:
- Design your own unique and gorgeous facial oil customized for your skin type, concerns and values or those of your customers.
- Follow our proven 8-step repeatable process to formulate skincare products that really work
- Deliberately select the right ingredients for your products.
- Create products for different skin types.
- Design your own unique and gorgeous facial oil customized for your skin type, concerns and values.
We’ll share with you our signature process and worksheet from our Diploma in Natural Skincare Formulation, which you can use time and time again.
Books, Google and YouTube only get you so far. Learning first-hand from a trusted School will take your knowledge and experience to a whole new level!
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This course is for you if...
You’d love to learn how to formulate skincare products from scratch.
You’d like to improve the products you are making.
You'd like to create a unique skincare product range for yourself or to sell.
The 8-step repeatable process you’ll learn:
Product concept
Explore the product you wish to create.
Ideal customers
Who is the product for and what skincare concerns do they have?
Benefits
What solutions will your product provide?
Features
How will your product provide those benefits?
Make
Make your facial oil the professional way.
Formula
Create a product formula perfect for your customer’s concerns.
Product details
Complete a product development brief; create your product on paper.
Ingredients
Which ingredients deliver your desired function and benefits?
Product concept
Explore the product you wish to create.
Ideal customers
Who is the product for and what skincare concerns do they have?
Benefits
What solutions will your product provide?
Features
How will your product provide those benefits?
Ingredients
Which ingredients deliver your desired function and benefits?
Product details
Complete a product development brief; create your product on paper.
Formula
Create a product formula perfect for your customer’s concerns.
Make
Make your facial oil the professional way.
What does the How To Formulate Natural and Organic Skincare Like a Pro course include?
You’ll receive:
Our repeatable 8-step process to formulating natural and organic skincare products like a pro.
Demonstration videos showing you how to make facial oils, step by step.
Ingredient selection worksheet – our step-by-step process for choosing your ingredients.
Four guides to formulating for different skin types.
Four example facial oil formulas to practice with, each for a different skin type.
Our signature Product Development Brief worksheet – our secret weapon to formulating success.
Essential Oils Chart featuring 24 essential oils – their aroma, therapeutic properties, key uses, contraindications/cautions and dermal limit.
Carrier Oils Chart featuring 20 carrier oils – their properties, key fatty acids, absorption rate, skin type suitability and substitutions.
By the end of the course, you will…
Understand how to follow a product development process to formulate like a professional
And have formulated your signature facial oil!
Student testimonials
I am feeling so confident right now and am excited to formulate more products!
- Hadja Mah Traoré,
- France
Thank you School of Natural Skincare. I’m so grateful for this opportunity! I started the course with very little knowledge in how to formulate natural skincare products and I have learned a lot in such a short space of time. It is going to be so interesting to see where it takes me.
- Hadja Mah Traoré,
- France
Being able to create a professionally formulated product was such a thrill.
- Michelle Moolman,
- South Africa
It was so great to follow the process you teach and see it all come together as we progress through the course. Bringing a product like this to life has been a dream for a long time. This was a wonderful process and I was excited to learn from you. Good work and thank you so much!
- Michelle Moolman,
- South Africa
I am excited to develop my products further and see what I can create.
- Tynessa Gay-Felix,
- Trinidad & Tobago
Thank you so much! I really enjoyed this course and the process we learned to make our facial oil. I learned a lot in such a short time and I thank your school for giving us this opportunity to develop my products and formulate our business ideas. I have now joined the Certificate in Making Natural Skincare Products.
- Tynessa Gay-Felix,
- Trinidad & Tobago
I learned so much about the benefits of different oils for specific skin types and issues.
- Teresa Reser,
- USA
This course was outstanding and exactly what I needed. It has really helped me in creating my own products. I’ve completed two courses so far and plan to enroll in both the Diploma in Natural Skincare Formulation and the Diploma in Natural Haircare Formulation!
- Teresa Reser,
- USA
The clear teaching and step-by-step process boosted my confidence.
- Donna Haslam,
- Australia
This course helped me focus on addressing skin problems and finding the right ingredients, rather than starting with ingredients first. I am excited that I can create something professional myself and this has made me eager to keep learning. I’ve now enrolled in the Diploma in Natural Skincare Formulation!
- Donna Haslam,
- Australia
I loved how this course taught me to structure a formula based on client needs and benefits.
- Lurena Hay-Miller,
- Canada
Before, I used a more intuitive approach, but learning this method will help me create stronger formulas. Breaking down the process into clear categories made it easy to follow and understand. Your training is incredibly thorough!
- Lurena Hay-Miller,
- Canada
Top FAQs
You’ll have access to the course for six months inside our online classroom. You can download the course textbooks, worksheets and charts for lifetime access.
We’ve broken the course into eight manageable steps to take. We recommend setting aside a couple of hours to complete each step, plus you may like to spend additional time using the resources provided to learn about skin types and research ingredient options.
A variety of formats are used, including comprehensive and beautifully designed course textbooks (provided as PDFs that can be downloaded), quick reference charts and video demonstrations.
This course is suitable for complete beginners or those with some experience. It is the perfect introduction to formulating from scratch. It is helpful if you have worked with carrier oils and essential oils before, but not essential.
The course teaches you a proven formulation process where you will think about who you are creating a product for, what their needs are and how your product can meet them. This involves ‘formulating on paper’ before you actually make your product. In the final steps of the process you will choose ingredients and make your facial oil, if you wish.
Therefore, for many of the steps no ingredients or equipment is required. When you are ready to make your formulation you can buy the ingredients you have selected (carrier oils, essential oils and Vitamin E) and organize the equipment to make your product. You will need digital scales, a glass lab beaker and suitable packaging. So, only a small amount of equipment and a few ingredients are required to complete this course.
The course is a self-study, self-paced course so you can study at a time that suits you.
This is a self-study introductory course. If you encounter any technical difficulties with the course materials or accessing them, you can reach out to our customer service team at hello@schoolofnaturalskincare.com. For support from our cosmetic scientists, we recommend joining our Diploma in Natural Skincare Formulation, which includes a weekly Q&A session with our tutors.
