Face to Face Tinned Lip Balm and Relaxing Pulse Point Balm making Workshop 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 are delighted to partner with our local friends at Wolds Barn in Duggleby to bring you this fascinating and exclusive goats milk soapmaking workshop, incorporating the milk from their beautiful goats.   We have been working with Sam and her family for several years and are thrilled that she has agreed to participate in the workshop.

Join us and our friends from Wolds Barn, in our Malton, Navigation Wharf workshop (see below for google maps link) for a glorious, relaxing time making therapeutic goats milk soap, renowned for its skincare benefits and its soothing effects for those with eczema and other dry, sore skin conditions.

Learn the special techniques needed to create goats mils soaps and make six bars of your own goats milk soap to take home and enjoy. 

We have had outstanding feedback from past participants on our soap-making workshops and are delighted to launch this new variant of the workshops in 2024. Due to the popularity of these workshops, early booking is recommended.  

In our spacious, new 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 goats milk soap from vegetable oils and waxes using the cold process soap-making method and raw, unpasteurised goats milk. No melt-and-pour synthetic soap bases or UHT milk/milk powder here! 

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 

These special goats milk soapmaking sessions will last around 2 hours and maybe more depending on how quickly we work - we do not like to rush, it's meant to be relaxing!

- Tea/coffee and introductions

- Sam to introduce her goats and talk about goats milk and its benefits

- The history of soap making and therapeutic benefits ascribed to goats milk soap

- The chemistry of goats milk soap-making

-  Fragrances, botanicals and essential oils (optional additions)

-  Goats milk Soap-Making demonstration

- Choose your own fragrances, flowers, exfoliants

- Make your goats milk 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 :)  

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).