Soap Making Courses
Engaging courses for all skill levels, interests and aspirations.
Soap Making Courses
Engaging courses for all skill levels, interests and aspirations.
Certificate courses
Shorter courses perfect for getting started.
BEGINNER – INTERMEDIATE
Certificate in Cold Process Soap Making
The perfect beginner’s course. Learn how to make nourishing cold-process soap and be in control of the ingredients you add, including milk, honey, charcoal and beer! Work with exfoliants and colorants, formulate your own soap recipes, and even make cupcake soaps, all to a professional standard.
Diploma courses
Comprehensive soap formulation courses.
Diploma in Soap Making
The most comprehensive online soap-making course available teaches you cold process, hot process and liquid soap making. Learn how to use a wide range of natural, organic, and/or vegan ingredients to reflect your own values, create beautiful soap designs using soap swirling techniques, and formulate your own nourishing soap recipes. Become the go-to soap making expert in your community!
Short courses for experienced soap makers
If you’re already confident in making cold-process soap and want to take your soap-making further, you’ll love our short courses for experienced soap makers.
INTERMEDIATE
Advanced Soap Making: Soap Swirling Techniques
Soap swirling techniques will allow you to take your cold process soap-making skills to the next level. Learn 10 techniques to create 10 different soap designs; the results are so beautiful it is like making soap art! To look at the designs you will learn to create, head over to our blog Cold Process Soap Designs: 10 Soap Swirl Techniques to Try and join our Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club to access this class.
INTERMEDIATE – ADVANCED
Advanced Soap Making: Hot Process Soap Making
Hot process soap is made at higher temperatures than cold process soap (usually 50-100°C), and a slow cooker (or crock pot) is used to ‘cook’ the oil mixture while it saponifies. The soap-making process can be very quick, even 30 minutes from start to finish, depending on your working temperature. In hot process soap, you can control the post-cook superfat, making very nourishing soaps. Discover 10 reasons to make Hot Process Soap and join our Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club to access this class.
INTERMEDIATE – ADVANCED
Advanced Soap Making: Liquid Soap Making
Once you’ve mastered making bar soap, liquid soap making is an exciting next step! There are similarities but also important differences between liquid and bar soap, which we cover in detail. Liquid soap recipes can be really simple, sometimes using just three ingredients: olive oil, lye and purified water. Depending on the recipe used, you can make liquid soap for the hands and body or even use it as a household cleaner for dishwashing. Read our Essential Guide to Making Liquid Soap to learn more and join our Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club to access this class.
Which course is right for you?
Take our short quiz, and we’ll match you with the perfect course to make your natural beauty goals a reality.
Alternatively, contact our course advisor by emailing hello@schoolofnaturalskincare.com
Is the School of Natural Skincare the right fit for me?
Whether you’re a beginner who’s excited about creating professional grade products at a fraction of the cost of shop-bought brands, an enthusiastic formulator keen on improving your skills or an aspiring beauty entrepreneur, our natural and organic skincare, haircare, make-up and soap formulation courses and programs are tailored for you.
If any of the following sound like you, we’d love to welcome you to the School.
I love the idea of making my own natural cosmetics that are free from harmful chemicals and don’t cost the earth.
I’m confused by the information I find online, and I don’t trust the internet. I need something more professional than just Google and YouTube.
I’m ready to learn, but I want to be able to do that at my own pace to fit around my life.
I’m excited about learning from a trusted source that doesn’t feel overwhelming – and understand the science behind the formulations.
I want to feel supported, knowing I can access the right information and expert help if I need it.
Why should you choose the School of Natural Skincare?
Follow our proven methodology to formulate professional-quality products for your own use or to sell – no previous knowledge needed.
Learn from and be supported by qualified, experienced professionals, including cosmetic scientists and chemists.
Access our tried-and-tested formulations, including those that require and have passed Preservative Efficacy Testing.
Study at a pace that suits your lifestyle.
Formulate natural beauty products customized to your needs and values.
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Natural Makeup Recipe Book
Begin your makeup formulation journey with our Natural Makeup Recipe Book featuring trid and tested formulations for mineral blusher, lip gloss and beginners’ natural vegan mascara.
