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.
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 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...
Debunking DIY: How to Spot an Unsafe Skincare Recipe
There are SO MANY unsafe DIY skincare recipes on the internet. It can be difficult to quickly and easily assess if a DIY recipe is safe. Here are some quick tips to get you started.
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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.
What is hyaluronic acid and how do you use it in natural skincare?
(INCI: Hyaluronic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate) What is hyaluronic acid? Hyaluronic acid (often shortened to HA) is one of the most powerful humectants available; it can hold up to 1,000 times its own weight in water! What is really interesting about hyaluronic acid is...
Why are serums good for your skin (and what are their benefits)?
Before we answer that, there’s another question we encourage you to ask yourself and it's a very simple one: What is it you want most from your skincare? There are so many reasons people use skincare products, whether those products are off the shelf,...
How you can make a natural face serum…that actually works!
If you love cosmetics and skincare, you’ll know that facial serums are all the rage right now. Packed with high-end and exotic sounding ingredients, serums are usually the most expensive item in many people’s skin care routine. But what if we told you that you could...
9 Natural Benefits of Rosehip Oil for Your Skin
Today we’re sharing a very special natural skincare ingredient and an essential element in some of our favourite recipes – Rosehip Oil INCI: Rosa Canina (Rose hip) seed oil What makes this ingredient so special is the way that it can help to repair and...
Carrier Oils: Finding the right carrier oil for your skin
When you start on the exciting journey of learning to create and even formulate your own natural skincare products, you’ll find there are some ingredients that are special – the star of your product. These ingredients are things like essential oils, CO2 extracts and...
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...
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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.
Katrina Hawes’ Journey to Natural Living
Yoga teacher and holistic health practitioner, Katrina Hawes, describes herself as a wife, a mother, a sister and daughter, a friend and an animal lover. She says she’d rather listen than talk, and walk rather than run. And she has been on a journey towards...
A Business Built on Family and Passion
Ene Adasen is both a mother and a successful natural beauty entrepreneur living in Lagos, Nigeria. For many years Ene had found her sensitive skin didn’t respond very well to chemical-based products, and when she started having children she saw that they too were...
A passion for creating high-performance serums free from harmful chemicals
Serums are undoubtedly the stars of the world of skincare. These are the high value, high-performance products with the hero ingredients that have the greatest impact on your skin. Some serums are designed to target specific areas of the body, like face, eyes, lips or...
Finding your passion and following your heart – no matter the challenges
At different times in our lives, we can all feel that strong desire to make a change. To make a fresh start, turn the page, reinvent ourselves. But when you’re thinking about taking a new path in your life, the first step can be the hardest, mainly because taking your...
Making the Decision to Live a Non-toxic Life
Karen Martin is a graduate of our Certificate in Making Natural Skincare Products and Diploma in Natural Skincare Formulation and her story is sure to strike a chord with many of you who are thinking of making the choice to learn how to create natural skincare for...
Forget Anti-ageing, Graduate Farida O’Seery Pioneers Anti-agism Skincare
Farida O’Seery, founder of theBeauvoir 50+ anti-ageism natural skincare based in Belgium, learned how to create her own organic and natural skincare products at the School of Natural Skincare. She is a woman on an anti-ageism mission who believes passionately that...
