Create Your Own Organic Perfume and Press Your Own Organic hand-made Soap

This organic course will bring you to a better understanding of the chemicals generally used in soaps and perfumes/aftershaves and encourage you to discover the scents that suit you. You will embark on a fragrant journey, culminating in the creation of natural organic soap and your own individual subtle organic perfume.

Using only the highest quality organic or wild crafted materials, you will learn the methodology of cold process soap making, together with the safety precautions. You will also consider different plant additives and their active ingredients, then take home the skills and recipes, so you can recreate your own organic products.

You will also explore the various ingredients used in perfumes and understand how fragrance affects mood and wellbeing. You will create your own organic perfume using the traditional approach of a blend of light, fleeting top notes, subtle, lingering middle notes and a heavy, lasting base note and take your personalised organic perfume home with you.

You will take away with you not just soap and perfume making skills but also an insight into the benefits of natural organic products that will remain with you long after the holiday is over. They will be a permanent reminder of a unique time spent in an idyllic location in south west France.

The venue is L’Alabrena, a one-time farmhouse that has been lovingly restored and fitted out to provide teaching rooms, en-suite bedrooms, a restaurant, riverside terraces and a swimming pool.

Included in the price

• One day of organic soap making (Friday)
• One day of organic perfume making (Monday)
• All materials and organic ingredients for all your products
• All the organic products you create to take away
• Information sheets and recipes to take away
• Transfers from Montpellier or Beziers airport or Montpellier train station
• Accommodation in a twin/double en-suite room for five nights
• Dinner on Thursday evening
• Breakfast, light lunch and dinner on teaching days (Friday & Monday)
• Breakfast on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday
• Two free days to explore the Herault region at your leisure
• Completion of the course entitles you to a 20% discount on Tortue Rouge products, forever.

Check-in after 2pm on Thursday and checkout by 11am on Tuesday.

Itinerary

Day 1 - Thursday

Early arrivals are welcome but check-in cannot be guaranteed until after 2pm.

Spend the afternoon relaxing by the pool or explore the area; the beautiful village of Lunas, on the river Gravezon, is a 45 minute walk. On the riverbank in the centre of the village is a chateau built in the mid-17th century.

Day 2 - Friday

Enjoy breakfast then head down to the lab to start to learn all about cold process soap making.

Teaching runs from 9.30am until 5pm each day with a break for a light lunch.

Once your organic soap has been made, it will need a few days to set before being ready to use.

Days 3 & 4 - Saturday & Sunday 

After breakfast, you are free to follow your own agenda - relax by the pool or explore this beautiful region of France. There are opportunities for hiking, mountain biking and horse riding along with a wine tour or even a day on the beach. Lunch and dinner are not included on these two days but can be made available if pre-booked.

Day 5 - Monday   

Following breakfast, you’ll return to the lab and learn how to formulate and develop your own personal organic scent.

Day 6 - Tuesday 

After breakfast, guests are asked to checkout of their rooms by 11am. If the programme of courses allows, it may occasionally be possible for guests to extend their stay and explore the Herault region more closely.

Cost: £750

Prices are for one person in a double/twin en-suite room.

If you have any questions at all about this organic course then please do contact us. We'll be happy to advise you without any obligation at all.

Course Dates
NO AVAILABILITY FOR SUMMER 2010 (£0.00 ex Vat)