Weekend of May 11-13, 2012

Organic Skin and Body Care from the Garden

Simplify and enrich your life by learning how to make your own nourishing, herbal skin and body care. Once you learn some basic herbal processing skills, you can easily make your own skin creams, facial scrubs, skin toners, and more. This is an essential skill for those who want high quality skin and body care without chemical additives, and for those who wish to become more self-reliant by using organic, whole ingredients and making their own skin care products. Within the beautiful Esalen gardens, learn how to collect and process herbs, from picking to preservation. Emphasis is placed on herbs that are safe and easy to grow in the garden, such as rose, calendula, and comfrey. Over the weekend, you’ll enjoy a series of herbal skin treatments and have the opportunity to make your own customized set of herbal skin and body car, including skin cream, floral skin toner, facial scrub, lip moisturizer, massage oil, and more. After completing the class, you will have a set of organic herbal skin care products to take home, the recipes and know-how to make them again on your own, basic knowledge of how to make a medicinal oil, tincture and salve, and the ability to make great gifts. You will also come away with resources for getting started at home and expanding your herbal repertoire, including a list of very useful plants that are relatively easy to grow in your backyard. This workshop is offered in partnership with the Regenerative Design Institute, www.regenerativedesign.org.

($20 materials fee paid directly to the leader)

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