Perfume & Potions Workshop

Name: Perfume & Potions Workshop
Start: 2025-01-18T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-18T17:00:00+00:00
Location: St Anne's Arts & Community Centre

Schedule

Sat Jan 18 2025 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

St Anne's Arts & Community Centre | Barnstaple, EN

Join Sarah Ward of The Hedgewitch Soapery for a full day of natural skincare crafting!
Learn about the key benefits of natural ingredients and which ones are most suitable for your skin type, explore how we can use herbs and botanicals in our skincare, how to use essential oils to boost your mental and emotional wellbeing and be guided through the traditional techniques used to create high quality products that work for you.
You will be making a loaf of soap (approx 8 bars), a whipped body butter and a bespoke perfume oil personal to you which you can choose to fragrance all your products with truly creating your own signature scent!
The day begins with the power of fragrance and how perfumers create the perfect scent, exploring the perfume notes and essential oils that you love and making a perfume oil that is personal to you.
Lunch break
Whipping up a super light and deeply moisturising body butter to nourish your skin with a range of luscious butters and oils.
Tea break
Traditional cold process soap making with natural oils and butters, botanicals and clays.
All raw materials, equipment and a workbook of recipes and notes for you to takeaway are supplied.
Please bring yourself and an apron, a shoebox and a shopping bag to carry your makes home a beach towel.
10am-5pm.
If a workshop you'd like to do is fully booked ring Box Office (01805 624624) to be added to the waiting list, you might be lucky! This also helps us ascertain the demand for particular workshops when programming.
PARKING
The closest long term car parks (and the cheapest) can be found at:
Fair View, Barnstaple EX31 1JR
Pilton Causeway, Barnstaple EX32 7AA
Seven Brethren Bank (beyond the Leisure Centre)
Suitable for all ages 13+. Under 16’s must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
£80.00 +£40 for materials payable to the tutor on the day.
Book online
Box Office: 01805 624624
About Sarah.
Sarah, a Hedgewitch, Healer & initiated Priestess of sacred oils pays homage to the medicine women and men of old who lived at the village edge where the boundaries of society and natural world soften and blur. Hedgewitches are said to "fly the hedge", referring to the way they live with one foot in the physical world and the other in the spiritual realm, focusing their craft on the home and infusing their day to day activities with magickal intention. These medicine makers have a deep knowledge and connection of the plant kingdom, working intuitively with nature, the stars and Mama moon to bring healing and wisdom to the world.
As a child Sarah was fascinated with witchcraft and the fae, crafting her own potions in a bucket in the garden with a handful of whatever was growing around her, thirty years later the bucket has been swapped for the Soapery but the essence of creation is the same, handcrafting skincare that harnesses the power of plant medicine, physically, emotionally & spiritually. With years of energy healing experience and initiated in the healing ways of the Magdalene priestesses, Sarah creates handcrafted products that infuse traditional artisan methods with botanical alchemy!