Events, Kits, Crafts & Workshops

As recommended by Chat Magazine

'Enjoy a day out with friends whipping up some handmade soaps - the perfect gift or a special treat for you' 

Join us in our Malton, Navigation Wharf workshop (see below for google maps link) for a glorious, relaxing afternoon of palm oil free soap-making! Make six bars of your own signature, cold process soap to take home.

We have had outstanding feedback from past participants and are delighted to have scheduled our workshops for 2024. Due to the popularity of these workshops, early booking is recommended. 

In our spacious premises in Navigation Wharf, Yorkersgate, next to the Talbot Hotel, Malton, we are very happy to be able to host up to ten participants, to make six, lovely bars of palm oil free soap, each, bearing your own signature fragrance, made from a blend of essential oils. 

You will make your palm oil free soap from vegetable oils and waxes using the cold process soap-making method. No melt-and-pour synthetic soap bases here! Your will then personalise your soap using dried flowers, fruit, exfoliants and fragrances.

These workshops make superb gifts. If you would like a card to be sent to the recipient, please select your Gift Card and add your message at checkout. Please ensure that we have the address for the recipient if you would like the card to be sent directly 

The morning sessions will start at 10.00 a.m. and finish around noon and  afternoon sessions will start at 2pm and finish at around 4.00pm (depending on how quickly we work - we do not like to rush, it's meant to be relaxing!)

- Tea/coffee and introductions

- The history of soap making

- The chemistry of soap-making

-  Fragrances, botanicals and essential oils

-  Soap Making demonstration

- Choose your own fragrances, flowers, exfoliants

- Make your own soap

- Next steps - after 24 hours (cutting the soaps) and 2 weeks (post curing) 

- Cheerios and loading soap for transporting home

Workshops are held at our Navigation Wharf Premises in Malton. 3 Navigation Wharf, Yorkersgate, YO17 7AA

Click here to open maps to find us.

A week or so before your workshop, we will email you to let you know what to bring with you. Please check your spam folder and contact us if you do not receive the email.

For bespoke workshops for your own group, family, craft club or special event, please contact us at service@cosycottagesoap.co.uk and we will be pleased to help.

We would love you to join us in our Malton, Navigation Wharf workshop for a Crafty session, learning how to make decorated, 100% soy wax, container candles. You will create 2 x large candles (usual RRP £20+ each) or a collection of smaller candles and tea lights, to take home with you. 

All your candles will be fragranced with your choice of natural essential oils and essential oil blends rather than synthetic fragrances.  

We will start with warm drinks and cake, before settling down for a session of learning and crafting together. We anticipate the workshop will take around two hours but we do not like to rush, it's all meant to be enjoyable and relaxing :)  

Join us in our Malton, Navigation Wharf workshop (see below for google maps link) for a glorious, relaxing session making your own lip balms and essential oil fragranced, relaxing pulse-point balms too! Take home up to 10 tins of your own exclusive balms after the session to use personally or to gift to your family and friends. 

We have had outstanding feedback from past participants at our full suite of Cosy Cottage face to face workshops, which have included soap, soy wax candlemaking and balm making workshops.  

In our spacious,  premises in Navigation Wharf, Yorkersgate, next to the Talbot Hotel, Malton, we are very happy to be able to host up to six participants for these relaxing and enjoyable lip and pulse-point balm making workshops. 

You will make your balms in your choice of 15ml or 30ml tins, The usual choice for lip balms is peppermint but a taste free version is frequently preferred by those with allergies. Your relaxing pulse point balms can be made in a choice of fragrances or your own blend. Lavender is s particularly popular fragrance for relaxing pulse-point balms as is chamomile or vetiver.  

These workshops make superb gifts. If you would like a card to be sent to the recipient, please select your Gift Card and add your message at checkout. Please ensure that we have the address for the recipient if you would like the card to be sent directly 

Our morning sessions will start at 10.00 a.m. and finish around 11.30 (depending on how quickly we work - we do not like to rush, it's meant to be relaxing!)

- Tea/coffee and introductions

- The history of balm making

- The chemistry and method of balm making

-  Choices of Fragrances  and essential oils

-  Tinned Balm Making demonstration

- Choose your own fragrances

- Make your own balms

- Cheerios and loading for transporting home

Workshops are held at our Navigation Wharf Premises in Malton. 3 Navigation Wharf, Yorkersgate, YO17 7AA

Click here to open maps to find us.

A week or so before your workshop, we will email you to let you know what to bring with you. Please check your spam folder and contact us if you do not receive the email.

For bespoke workshops for your own group, family, craft club or special event, please contact us at service@cosycottagesoap.co.uk and we will be pleased to help.

Welcome to our 'Cosy Crafts' range. This fantastic soap-felting kit contains everything you need to make four lovely, large palm oil free, felted soaps; ideal for use in the bath or shower.

This kit, presented in one of our signature, branded Cosy Cottage boxes, contains a detailed and illustrated instruction booklet, to guide you through the soap-felting process, which is both fun and rewarding. It  would make an ideal gift or provide the basis for a home crafting session to enjoy yourself or with children/grandchildren.

Your homemade, felted soaps will make popular gifts for friends and family or a delightful bath or shower time treat, just for you. We include four large bars of our most popular soaps - Geranium and Sweet Orange:

Geranium -  with the uplifting scent of rosy geranium and a delicate hint of sweet orange. A firm favourite with our customers who return to this rose-like fragrance again and again.

Sweet Orange - this fresh, energising, fruity fragrance is a favourite all year round but especially for Spring and Summer and is achieved by the addition of sweet orange essential oil. 

Contents:

4 x large 110g Coconut Oil Soaps, fragranced with essential oils (2 x Sweet Orange, 2 x Geranium)

 Wool roving in various, coordinating colours (primarily oranges, creams and pinks)

A pair of felting tights!  

Ingredients labels

Detailed, illustrated instruction booklet

Sweet orange soap ingredients : 

Sodium cocoate, Sodium olivate, Sodium beeswaxate, glycerin, Citrus Sinensis Oil (limonene, citral)

Geranium soap ingredients:

 Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Olivate, Sodium Beeswaxate, Glycerin, Geranium Oil (Citral, Citronellol, Geraniol, Linalool), Citrus Sinensis Oil (Limonene).

Watch our soap making demo.

We are delighted to offer this packaged make-at-home soap kit so you are able to enjoy making your own natural, palm oil free soaps from the comfort of your home. There is sweet orange fragrance included but if you'd like to make fragrance free, you can leave this out.

The kit contains everything you need, pre-weighed in your very own soap-making pack and includes a disposable mould. You can make your soaps while watching our demonstration video (via the link above) or watch the video first then make the soap later at your own pace. 

You'll also receive email support via service@cosycottagesoap.co.uk if you have any questions about the make-at-home pack and the process of soap making.

The package includes:

- A soap-making demonstration video via the link above

     - Safety briefing

     - Demonstration of the end to end soap making process (throughout which you can take notes)

     - Email support for any questions via service@cosycottagesoap.co.uk 

The pack is sent to you via Royal Mail and contains all the materials you need to make your batch of soap at home. Most participants make their soaps after watching the video,  having taken notes and possibly emailed their questions, but some brave souls do 'make along with Clara'... It's up to you

Happy soap-making :)

We're delighted to offer this product from our  'Cosy Crafts' range. This fantastic lip balm making kit contains all you need to make 6 large (30ml) palm oil free, peppermint lip balms that are super-moisturising for smooth, soft lips.

Presented in one of our signature, branded Cosy Cottage boxes, the kit contains a detailed and illustrated instruction booklet to guide you through the making process.

The kits make ideal gifts or provide the basis for a home crafting session to enjoy yourself or with children/grandchildren.

Your homemade lip balms will make ideal gifts for friends and family or a handy balm to carry with you so you can keep your lips moisturised all day, every day. All six of these tins will last you a very long time, so why not surprise your friends and family with something handmade and delightful! 

Contents:

Ingredients To Make 6 x 30ml Tins Of Balm:
Shea Butter, Beeswax, Avocado Oil, Sunflower Oil

Cera Alba, (beeswax) Persea Gratissima  (avocado) oil, butyrospermum parkii (shea) butter, helianthus annus (sunflower) oil

Peppermint Oil - piperita mente leaf oil

6 x 30ml Tins

6 x Blank Labels

Detailed, Illustrated Instruction Booklet

More and more of us are starting to enjoy the therapeutic and traditional art of knitting!

Nothing could be simpler or more useful than a hand-knitted dishcloth which can be used, washed and used again and again. Each 100g ball of cotton dishcloth wool will make several dishcloths using the comfortable bamboo knitting needles and simple instructions provided in the set. Gifts all year round for friends and relatives alike! 

The set is presented in one of our beautiful, unbleached cotton drawstring gift bags bearing our Cosy Cottage logo. Super-useful to hold your ongoing knitting project, while it's underway!

- One unbleached cotton drawstring Cosy Cottage branded Bag

- One pair of 4mm bamboo knitting needles

- One 100g ball of unbleached cotton dishcloth wool 

- One bar of Cosy Cottage Washing Up soap (for when you've finished knitting!)

- An instruction sheet

This lovely set makes an ideal project while sunbathing, camping, vacationing or simply  passing time or an imaginative gift for someone special. 

Join us for one of our 30 minute participative demonstrations of this popular approach to natural beauty. The session will focus on the benefits of the practice in a private, quiet area at the rear of our Malton store. 

Sarah and our Cosy Cottage team will be on hand to provide natural beauty advice and free mini treatments throughout the day too

Capacity for these popular demonstrations will be limited so we are asking for a nominal £12.00 reservation deposit for your choice of demonstration, £5.00 of which is redeemable on the purchase of any items in-store on 8th June 2024.

Special Introductory Price - £9

Purchase your free delivery pass before you make your order and then go ahead and use your code when you next checkout your basket of products. The code RMDEL1 will be available to use for the next order, immediately, once you have purchased.

The ideal money-saving purchase for our valued regular shoppers and the ideal investment for frequent present-givers. A free UK tracked postage season ticket for a full twelve months!

We're always trying to find ways to help our customers and respond to their priorities, during the current cost of living crisis.  We're offering customers the opportunity to pre-purchase a code which will give 12 months free UK tracked class Royal Mail Postage on all orders, whatever the value.

- Once purchased, your code can be combined with other offers which available on our website   

- The codes may be used on all purchases made by you, as many times as you wish, during a twelve month period.

- Your goodies can be posted directly to you or straight to the lucky recipients of the gifts you purchase for others throughout the year

Your code is RMDEL1 and will also be sent to you by email following purchase. Thereafter, you just need to to enter the code every time you check out and you'll be charged nothing for postage for a full twelve months. Do not panic if you forget to enter the code, we are always here to help via service@cosycottagesoap.co.uk and will refund you if you have simply been forgetful!

Book your space at our in-store 'Ancient Wellbeing Indian Head Massage' Event

on Sunday 26th May 2024 at 13 Market Place, Malton, YO17 7LP

Indian head massage, also referred to as champissage, is an ancient, traditional Ayurvedic treatment which focuses on the acupressure points on the head, neck, and shoulders, using circular massage strokes to improve hair and scalp condition.

This pracice has been deployed for over 2000 years and its benefits include:

• Promoting hair growth by increasing oxygen to the scalp and follicles  
• Relief of headaches and migraines through reduction of tension in the head, shoulders and neck 
• Enhancing relaxation and relief of the symptoms of depression and anxiety 
• Reduction of stress, quietenting of the mind and boosting of memory 
• Stimulation of lymphatic and cerebral fluid drainage 
• Improvement of sleep through promoting reduction in stress

Our experienced, consultant practitioner, Sarah Greenhough will provide 30 minute one to one treatments in ambient surroundings; fragranced with our signature blend essential oil wellbeing candles and diffusers. 

These treatments require no oils (unless desired), can be administered seated if required and can be performed through light clothing. The treatments are therefore both inclusive and accessible; perfect for newcomers to massage and wellbeing.

Bookings are available between 09.30am and 16.00 on 26th May 2024 via the dropdown on this product description

Join us in Malton for this new workshop wherein we will learn how to use natural essential essential oils to create beautiful, therapeutic blends and some lovely home and body fragrances to take home with you. We will be working throughout the workshop with natural essential oils, which have been created from distilled fruit, seeds, flowers and plants; no synthetic limonoids, fragrance oils or parfums here!

You will work as part of a small group, with qualified chemist Clara, to create three of your own, unique essential oil home fragrance blends to take home and use in diffusers, oil burners or candles. We will also help you select a blend with which to make a 100ml massage oil and a 10ml pulse point oil, to take home for your personal use or to give as a gift.

During this two hour workshop, we will cover

• The principles of perfume and smell
• The therapeutic properties of essential oils
• Exploration of the top three essential oil blending techniques
• Blending tips and technoques
• Safety considerations and an overview of natural allergens
• Create three of your own unique essential oil home fragrance blends to take home
• Making your own 100ml fragranced massage oil and a 10ml aromatherapy pulse point oil to take home

Please note that we will work within UK safety guidelines but we are unable to provide personal allergen diagnoses or medical advice. If you are concerned about possible reactions, please consult your practitioner.   

These workshops make superb gifts. If you would like a card to be sent to the recipient, please select your Gift Card and add your message at checkout. Please ensure that we have the address for the recipient if you would like the card to be sent directly 

This morning session will start at 10.30 a.m. and finish around 12.30  (depending on how quickly we work - we do not like to rush, it's meant to be relaxing!)

The workshop will be held at our Malton store on Malton's Market Place 13 Market Place, Malton YO17 7LP

A week or so before your workshop, we will email you to let you know all the details and what to bring with you. Please check your spam folder and contact us via service@cosycottagesoap.co.uk, if you do not receive the email.

For bespoke workshops for your own group, family, craft club or special event, please contact us at service@cosycottagesoap.co.uk and we will be pleased to help.