Face to Face Goats Milk Soap-Making Workshops in our Malton Workshop

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.

Book your space at our in-store 'Treat your Feet' Event

on 11th May 2024 at 13 Market Place, Malton, YO17 7LP

Bookings are available between 09.30am and 16.00 on 11th May 2024 via the dropdown on this product description

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).