This 2-day hands-on certificate course will take you step-by-step through soap-molding, from choosing ingredients to molding and packaging.
You will learn techniques for using a casting soap, which is a premade soap base that can be melted, customized with your favorite colors and fragrances, and molded into creative shapes. Not just that, you will learn advanced techniques like layering & embedding to craft unique soap patterns & designs. Also included is different variations of lotions, body scrubs products plus how to price and market your products.
This course is taught 1-on-1 by professional soap maker Nada with several years of teaching students the art of soap molding and selling her own soaps and body beauty products. If you are planning to start your own soap and beauty products business, Nada will also share her industry knowledge and give you some tips on marketing and pricing.
Who should attend this course:
- Anyone looking for a way to open their own soap and beauty products shop
- Anyone wanting to make some side money by producing and selling unique, handmade soaps to shops or through e-commerce websites
- Anyone with a passion for beauty products, art, crafting or creative hobbies
Course Outline:
- Introduction to glycerine soap
- Properties and characteristics
- Difference between glycerine and the other types of soap
- Additives which can be combined with glycerin soap and its ratios
- How to store glycerin soap
- Percentage of added fragrance
- Methods of dissolving other components in the glycerin soap mixture
- Difference between glycerine soap and melt-and-pour soap (and their different types)
- Types of oils and their properties (and where to get them)
- Types of colors (features, characteristics, and how to mix them)
- Types of molds
- Glycerine soap formation techniques
- Normal technique for single-color soap
- Embedding technique
- Swirling technique
- Printing technique
- Drizzling technique
- Dipping technique
- Making body scrub and soapy body scrub from glycerin soap
- Soap wrapping: How to pack soap in beautiful boxes and decorate them
- Making lotion and lotion scrub
- Difference between lotion and cream
- Information about body product ingredients such as wax, emulsifying wax, beeswax and butter, and their benefits
10. Making coffee scrub
- Coffee and the benefits of peeling
- ‘Oils and sugar’ or ‘salt and sugar’ peelers
11. How to make Bubble bar
12. How to make Lip Balm
13. How to make Massage Bars (solid lotion)
14. Tips on marketing and pricing your own beauty product creations
Materials:
- All ingredients, equipment and course materials will be provided. Handouts are available in both English or Arabic
Validity Period:
All sessions are valid for 60 days upon booking
Gender:
Female only
Age Requirements:
11 and older
Additional Info:
- Upon booking, the instructor will send an introductory video on theory of soap-making, to be viewed before the first session
- Certificates of completion are available
- Instruction is available in English or Arabic
- The classes can be given on 2 consecutive days or different days within the same week
- All courses include drinks & lunch meal
Location:
At the instructor's home in Dubai Silicon Oasis, Emirates Accommodation Tower 7
Exact unit location will be shared upon booking
Dubai Silicon Oasis
Dubai
