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Short course

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:

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...

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You’d love to learn how to formulate skincare products from scratch.

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You’d like to improve the products you are making.

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You'd like to create a unique skincare product range for yourself or to sell.

The 8-step repeatable process you’ll learn:

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Product concept

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Explore the product you wish to create.

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Ideal customers

Who is the product for and what skincare concerns do they have?

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Benefits

What solutions will your product provide?

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Features

How will your product provide those benefits?

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Make

Make your facial oil the professional way.

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Formula

Create a product formula perfect for your customer’s concerns.

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Product details

Complete a product development brief; create your product on paper.

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Ingredients

Which ingredients deliver your desired function and benefits?

What does the How To Formulate Natural and Organic Skincare Like a Pro course include?

You’ll receive:

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Our repeatable 8-step process to formulating natural and organic skincare products like a pro.

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Demonstration videos showing you how to make facial oils, step by step.

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Ingredient selection worksheet – our step-by-step process for choosing your ingredients.

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Four guides to formulating for different skin types.

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Four example facial oil formulas to practice with, each for a different skin type.

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Our signature Product Development Brief worksheet – our secret weapon to formulating success.

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Essential Oils Chart featuring 24 essential oils – their aroma, therapeutic properties, key uses, contraindications/cautions and dermal limit.

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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!

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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.