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Crafting Beauty: The Spa Lab Series 1
Class 1: Cleanser Creation Lab $50
Saturday July 11th, 2026, 10:00 AM -11:00 PM
Learn how to craft a gentle, beautifully balanced cleanser using professional techniques and skin‑loving ingredients. You’ll explore surfactants, pH balance, clarity, and texture — and leave with your own custom cleanser.
Crafting Beauty: The Spa Lab Series 2
Class 2: Mists & Elixirs Workshop $50
Saturday July 11th, 2026, 11:30 AM -12:30 PM
Create a refreshing, aromatic facial mist using hydrosols, botanicals, and humectants. Perfect for hydration, glow, and a touch of daily ritual.
Crafting Beauty: The Spa Lab Series 3
Class 3: The Daily Glow Hydrator Workshop $50
Saturday July 11th, 2026, 1:00 PM - 2:00
In this richly rewarding workshop, you’ll learn how to create a beautifully balanced daily moisturizer — the heart of any skincare routine. This class introduces you to the fundamentals of emulsion science: how oils and waters come together to form a smooth, stable, luxurious lotion.
Inside the Spa Lab, you’ll explore emollients, humectants, botanical oils, emulsifiers, and skin‑loving actives that support hydration, barrier repair, and a healthy glow. You’ll learn how to adjust viscosity, slip, absorption rate, and finish so your moisturizer feels exactly the way you want — light and silky, rich and comforting, or perfectly in‑between.
By the end of class, you’ll have crafted your own custom daily hydrator, complete with a printed formula and the confidence to recreate and personalize lotions at home. Perfect for beginners, DIY beauty lovers, and anyone ready to step deeper into the art and science of skincare formulation.
Studio Botanica Lab
The Art of Formulating $250
Thursday July 16th 4:00 PM- 8:00 PM
Saturday July 18th 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Step inside a world where beauty meets chemistry, intuition meets technique, and everyday ingredients transform into luxurious, spa‑quality skincare. The Art of Formulation is a hands‑on workshop designed for beginners, beauty lovers, and anyone curious about the art of formulation.
In this immersive class, you’ll learn how real cosmetic formulators think — how to blend, balance, thicken, preserve, and create products that feel elegant, safe, and professional. You’ll work with botanicals, hydrosols, oils, surfactants, and skin‑loving actives while discovering the science that makes each formula come alive.
What You’ll Learn
- How to read and understand a cosmetic formula
- The difference between water‑based, oil‑based, and surfactant‑based products
- How to safely heat, blend, cool, and preserve your creations
- How to adjust viscosity, texture, scent, and clarity
- The fundamentals of pH, shelf life, and ingredient function
- How to create products that look, feel, and perform like boutique spa skincare
What You’ll Make
You’ll create a beginner skin care kit to take home — crafted with high‑quality ingredients and guided step‑by‑step by a professional formulator.
Perfect For
- Beginners with zero experience
- DIY beauty lovers
- Estheticians and spa pros wanting to expand their skills
- Creatives who love hands‑on learning
- Anyone curious about cosmetic chemistry
You’ll Leave With
- Your finished products
- Printed formulas
- A beginner’s ingredient guide
- Confidence to start formulating at home
- A deeper understanding of how skincare is truly made
This workshop is warm, welcoming, and deeply empowering — a blend of science, creativity, and sensory beauty. Come discover the magic of making your own cosmetics.
Join Me in the Spa Lab
Welcome to Crafting Beauty: The Spa Lab Series — a collection of short, immersive, 1‑hour workshops where you’ll learn to create luxurious, spa‑quality skincare with your own hands. These classes are beginner‑friendly, sensory, and deeply empowering. Each one focuses on a single product so you can learn, create, and take home something beautiful.
*Basic Lab Kit Needed for Lab Series 1-3
- Digital scale
- Set of Glass Beakers
- Glass Stir Sticks
- Heating Plate
- Small Pot
- Ph Test Strips
*Not included with enrollment, you must bring lab kit to class. You may purchase Starter Lab Kit from our online store before class. You will continue to use these materials in your home beauty lab.
Basic Ingredients for Lab Series 1-3
Ingredients provided to you for each class. Additional formulating ingredients are sold in our Spa Lab as well as in our online store.
Studio Botanica Lab
*Basic Lab Kit needed for Workshop.
Ingredients are provided for workshop. Additional formulating ingredients are sold in our Spa Lab as well as in our online store.
*Not included with enrollment, you must bring lab kit to class. You may purchase Starter Lab Kit from our online store before class. You will continue to use these materials in your home beauty lab.