Soapmaking from Scratch: A Beginner’s Cold Process Workshop

Learn to make real cold-process soap from scratch and take home more than two pounds of your own handcrafted soap.

About this Event

We believe in knowing how to make some of the things we use every day.

Soapmaking is one of those skills.

In this hands-on class, we're getting back to the basics and learning how to make real soap from scratch. Not melt-and-pour. Not a premade base. You'll learn how oils, water and lye come together through the soapmaking process—and then you'll put that knowledge to work and make a batch of your own.

This class is about more than following a recipe. We want you to understand what you're doing. We'll talk about the role different oils play in a bar of soap, how to work safely with lye, what happens during saponification, how to recognize emulsion and trace, and how botanicals, clays and essential oils can be used to make a bar your own.

Because doing for self starts with knowing how.

No previous soapmaking experience is necessary. We'll teach you the process, gi