Providence Perfume Natural Perfuming Class I love natural perfumes, and for a while now, I've been thinking of adding a natural oil based perfume to my Alegna Soap® line. When I saw that Providence Perfume was offering a class called "Creating Solid and Oil Based Natural Perfumes", I quickly signed up for the spring …
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Long Island Soap Making Classes I enjoy sharing my love of soap making with others. I hold Long Island soap making classes in my studio in Bethpage. We first talk about safety issue using lye, where to get soap making equipment and how to use an online lye calculator. Then we get down to business and make soap. Since the class is small, everyone …
Natural Perfume - Fougere Workshop This past Sunday I did it again. I took 2 trains and 2 subways into Brooklyn to attend Herbal Alchemy's Fougere Workshop. …
Soap Making with Argan Pulp One of the more interesting ingredients I have used in soap making is argan pulp. A few months ago I was fortunate to meet a woman who sold argan oil at an event. She told me her husband’s family grew argan trees in Morocco and processed the oil themselves. She had argan pulp (what remained after the oil was …
Herbal Alchemy Perfuming Class I had planned to drive, but with the snowstorm they said was coming I opted for mass transit. Two trains and two subways later, I was on the doorstep of Herbal Alchemy in Brooklyn, to take the second part of Julianne Zaleta's Natural Perfuming class. I met Julianne when I was her assistant for …
