Start your adventure into Natural Skincare with us here…
The School of Natural Skincare is the perfect place if you’re a complete beginner, or if you’re looking to grow a natural skincare business.
Start your adventure into natural Skincare with us here…
The School of Natural Skincare is the perfect place if you’re a complete beginner, or if you’re looking to grow a natural skincare business.
WHICH OF THESE SOUNDS LIKE you?
Just starting out? Welcome! You’re in the right place
Here are three easy ways we recommend to get started with creating your own natural, effective and safe products
1. Get your hands on our free Natural Skincare Recipe Book full of fabulous recipes.
2. Read through our most popular articles and recipes on getting started with natural skincare.
How do You Know What Ingredients and Their Quantities to Use in a Natural Skincare Recipe?
You’ve decided that you’d like to make a natural skincare product to target a specific skin concern. You’ve decided what skin type it is for. You’ve even designed the packaging! But when it comes to actually making a natural cosmetic product, how do you know what...
Understanding How Your Skin Works
Your skin is amazing. It’s a constantly changing, dynamic and adaptable living organ. It can adapt in an instant, responding to differences in the environment, temperature and light. It is highly sensitive to heat, vibration, movement and pressure, and it protects us...
Making natural skincare products free from chemicals
It’s something we hear all the time - “I want to learn how to make products free from chemicals.” Perhaps that’s something that resonates with you? It’s a sentiment that really means a lot to us - but there’s something we should explain first. You can’t...
What our students love the most about making their own natural skincare products
The satisfaction of creating our own natural skincare products can be immense. No matter what draws our students to natural and organic skincare in the first place, there’s no question that seeing the hard work pay off when they successfully create a beautiful product...
DIY Skincare Done Professionally
When you’re just getting started with making your own products, it's a fun and exciting time. You’re discovering lots of amazing natural and organic ingredients: Argan oil, coconut oil, shea butter, kiwi seed oil, kukui nut oil, cocoa butter, hemp seed oil, and...
What is Natural Skin Care?
The natural skin care market is one of the fastest growing markets in the skin care industry—and for good reason! More and more people are looking for natural ways to care for their skin, and turning to products marketed as natural enhances the belief that certain...
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READY TO TAKE YOUR PRODUCTS TO THE Next Level?
Start formulating products from scratch and creating a wider range of products here
1. Get your hands on our free step-by-step guide to formulating natural skincare products from scratch (rather than following recipes).
2. Read through our most popular articles on formulating natural and organic skincare products.
Natural surfactants in cosmetics: What are they and how do they work?
Surfactants are an important category of ingredient in cosmetics because they function as detergents which help to remove dirt. They are therefore the basis of many types of cleansing products such as face and body washes, hand wash, bubble bath and shampoo.What is a...
The Essential Ingredients Used To Make Mineral Makeup
For beauty enthusiasts keen on making their own products, many have a real desire to make their own mineral makeup. It is a lot of fun and can be done easily from home. However, making your own mineral makeup is different to other cosmetic products like skincare or...
How to Make Your Own Mineral Makeup
A big part of making our own natural cosmetics is mineral makeup, but finding reliable and accurate information about it is hard to come by. Fortunately, we’ve got you covered at the School of Natural Skincare! It is such an exciting topic to delve into and an amazing...
9 Safety Tips You Need to Know to Make Cold Process Soaps
Making cold process soap is a great thing to do at home or in your cosmetics lab. There are so many benefits to making your own soaps and you can read more about that in our article, 6 benefits of making cold process soaps. However, before you get your oils, water and...
6 ingredients used to make cold process soaps
Soaps are created by a reaction called saponification, which is a chemical reaction between lye and oil, or better yet between lye and the fatty acids within the oil. The base ingredients that make up natural soap are oils, lye and water. Depending on the oils in the...
6 benefits of making cold process soaps
Making your own cold process soap is such a fun activity to do at home or in your lab set up. There are many things you need to know about before you get started and its important to follow the core safety advice too. Fortunately, we have an online course, Cold...
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SO YOU WANT TO BUILD A natural OR organic BEAUTY BRAND?
You don’t need to feel overwhelmed when starting or growing your business. Let our business experts help.
1. Do you dream of starting or growing your own natural beauty brand? If so, get started now with our Beauty Business Checklist
2. Read through our most popular articles on growing your natural beauty business.
The power to create, the freedom to believe: Joining the Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club
Behind every good idea is a person with a dream. Making that dream a reality is the difference between an idea thriving and seeing it disappear. One member of the Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club has found that her dreams of becoming a brand founder are being...
Being part of the Club; feeling like a member of the natural cosmetic world
How one student’s membership to the Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club has given her the confidence to launch her own brand Having always strived to use products that were good for her skin and hair, Stacey Brown, from the USA, became aware that products with 100%...
Science, nature and community: Below the surface of the Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club
During the early stages of the Covid pandemic, a feeling grew among the masses. The desire to ‘go back to nature’ became prevalent. Many people wanted the products they used on their skin and hair to include natural ingredients, and be effective and safe. For Althea...
Holiday Gift Guide 2021
With the holiday season fast approaching, what better way to celebrate the School of Natural Skincare’s past students than with a holiday gift guide incorporating their favorite natural skincare products, made by them!Caro’s Creams - United Kingdom Caroline Lee-Smith,...
From Kitchen Formulating to Running Her Own Natural Skincare Business – Krithika’s Success Story
Krithika Sundaram is a researcher and certified formulator based in Bahrain. Her natural skincare brand, Tvishi Handmade, brings together luxurious organic ingredients and effective skin and haircare. When Krithika started formulating products, she was experimenting...
Denisse B García – the Naturally Nourishing Mama
Worrying about your kids is a natural part of parenthood. From bumps and bruises to fallings-out with friends, there’s a lot mothers and fathers can’t control. A big area of concern can be what you’re putting in – or on – to your children’s bodies. This is a feeling...
