Soap School is back for 2023! This special workshop series will be held over a weekend. Designed to be a wonderfully immersive experience to get you confident and inspired with your soap making.

We will cover a number of techniques and concepts including recipe formulation, layering, creating soap with specific properties, using colour and the Business of soap. This is a perfect way to increase your soaping confidence in a fun group setting. You will finish Soap School confident and full of ideas to apply in your own soapmaking. Workshop numbers will be limited to a total of four participants.

Day 1 – Saturday – 10am start

Morning session: Formulation, oil properties, tricks with calculations
Working with clays
Layering Soap Technique.
You will complete a loaf of soap in this session to take home.

Lunch – BYO

Afternoon session: Introducing additives to create soaps with specific qualities – we will work with milks, honey, colloidal oatmeal, scrub elements, activated charcoal and more

Day 2 – Sunday 9am start

First session: Mica Obsession – do you love colour? In this session we will be working with bright colours, learning tricks to get the most pop from your colour design. You will take home a kilo batch of art inspired soap! This session will run for about 3 hours.

Final session: The art of packaging. We explore packaging concepts, obligations of labeling, selling and tricks for creating a special and unique product.

Snacks and refreshments will be served throughout the days.

Please note: The Soap School will go ahead if we have four participants enroll. If you would like to join, please let Bree know early that you are keen to participate. Highly suggest you attend a beginners class before commencing Soap School to get the most out of your immersive weekend. Sing out if you have any questions.

Dates available:

Weekend of
Saturday 21st January
Sunday 22nd January

Workshop Location: Wattlebird Creative Studio, Shop 1, Holt Shopping Centre. Please get in touch if you would like more information on the program or if you are traveling from out of town and need some help sourcing accommodation. (email: info@wattlebirdcanberra.com or mobile: 0432 441 613) – Bree.