Make Your Own Bath & Body Products
Lesson Info
Why Use Scrubs?
This class is all about how to make scrubs. Why you use scrubs? Why you choose the scrubby exfoliants you choose? What exfoliants are best for which body parts? And then after I go over kind of all the basic mechanics and cleanliness, preservatives, the ingredients for the scrubs, then we're gonna actually make scrub live right now. So we're gonna be using a scrub using Himalayan sea salts. A facial scrub that uses ground walnut shells. And then an emulsified scrub that is both a lotion, a soap, and a scrub all in one. So why use a scrub, right? Like our skin does a pretty good job. We shower, we use soap. Why in the world would you want to literally scrub off the first layer of your skin with a manual exfoliant like a sea salt? The reason you would want to use an exfoliant like a sea salt or walnut shells or pumice on your skin is because, though our skin naturally sheds right around 50,000 cells every minute and rebuilds, right I know right, crazy, and rebuilds itself every 28 days, ...
a total epithelial layer of our skin rebuilds every 28 days, as we age, that slows down. That process slows down. In addition to that any sort of outdoor activity that you do, whether it's hiking, biking, surfing, anything that exposes you to wind, sand, sun, also will prematurely age the skin causing more dry patches. And when you have dry patches you can have breakouts, ingrown hairs. And if you wear foundation or makeup the makeup doesn't go on nearly as smoothly for example. Or if you're doing self-tanner and you're trying to put self-tanner on your skin, the self-tanner ends up kinda going on patchy. So exfoliating is a really important part of, well, general body maintenance and it's oftentimes overlooked. A traditional scrub like the one that you've seen in the stores is usually something like an exfoliant, so sea salt, and a carrier oil. So for example, when I first started making and selling soap products at the age of 18, one of my very first craft shows, up in Bellingham, Washington, I had these little glass jars. I filled them with salt and then I poured olive oil over them. Put a little bit of fragrance in them. And sold them for $ for tiny, tiny little jar for Christmas presents for people and sold hundreds of them. That was magic. It was amazing. And it was a very, very simple, traditional scrub. In this course we are going way past that kind of simple, traditional scrub and we're going to be using exotic ingredients and making, again, the three different kinds of scrubs. Scrubs can be as easy or as complicated as you want. They're super fun to make because, again, you can make 'em with kids if you're just doing salt plus oil. Or you can make them more unique and make a night of it and have fun with your girlfriends or your friends and have a craft night. They make beautiful gifts. Or, again, super popular in stores to sell.
Class Description
- The cold process soap making technique
- How to formulate you own lotion and balm recipes
- Everything you need to know about sugar and salt scrubs
- How to comply with federal rules and regulations
Lessons
1Class Introduction2The Science of Soap Making
3Important Soaping Vocabulary
4How to Use Oils, Colorants, Additives & Molds
5Tools Needed to Make Soap
6How to Use Lye Safely
7Lavender Everything Cold Process Soap Recipe
8Ingredients to Make Lotion
9Emulsifiers & Co-Emulsifiers for Lotion
10Preservatives for Lotion
11Liquids for Lotion
12Color & Additives for Lotion
13How to Sanitize Before Making Lotion
14How to Make Lotion: Beginner's Recipe
15Label Lotion to Sell
16How to Make a Balm: Whipped Avocado Balm
17Why Use Scrubs?
18Different Kinds of Exfoliants
19Preservatives in Scrubs?
20How to Make Pink Sea Salt Body Scrub
21How to Make Walnut Facial Scrub
22How to Make an Emulsified Scrub
23Label to Sell Scrubs
24Handmade Beauty Box: Shaving Soap
25Handmade Beauty Box: Jojoba Bead Scrub