In terms of ingredients for the Certificate in Making Natural Skincare Products, we recommend that you start off simple!
With just a handful of ingredients, you can make many types of product. We suggest you begin with inexpensive carrier oils that are still very beneficial for the skin. Then, as you are practicing and learning you won’t waste expensive ingredients.
We've attached a booklet with all of the ingredients used in the course. We suggest you read through this and choose:
- 5 carrier oils of your choice
- One or two waxes of your choice
- One or two butters of your choice
- One emulsifier
- Two stabilizers/thickeners
- Vitamin E
- One preservative
- 2-5 essential oils of your choice
- One or two clays of your choice
- Jojoba beads/bamboo beads
- Aloe vera juice
- Distilled water
- Glycerine
- One hydrosol
You can either choose to buy the ingredients before you start the course, or when you enroll, you can read through some of the recipes and decide what you’d like to make. You can also look through the ingredient charts to see which oils sound appealing to you. Then you can order your ingredients accordingly. Don’t get overwhelmed - keep it simple! You can always add more ingredients to your collection later.
We have a blog article that you may find useful on the equipment you need to get started:
https://www.schoolofnaturalskincare.com/equipment-you-need-making-natural-skincare-products-home/
As part of the course we provide a list of hundreds of suppliers all around the world many of which deliver internationally too.
We also have a smaller supplier list on our website that you might want to look at in the meantime:
www.schoolofnaturalskincare.com/recipes-info/recommended-suppliers/