Soap Making with Susie

Learn how to make natural and beautiful soap!

Soap making is a lot of fun and natural soap makes great gifts. Soap maker Susie Hartman will guide you through the basics of natural cold process soap making. This is a two-part workshop. Participants can take Session I, Session II or both!

Session I will cover:

Basic soap chemistry
Lye safety
Tools of the trade
Natural colorants and scents
Working in groups, participants will create a vegetable oil soap with customized scents and colors that they will be able to take home with them at the end of class.

Session II will cover:

Embellishing your soap. See demonstrations of advanced soap making techniques.
Learn how to layer, swirl, honeycomb, and confetti your soap.
Felt a bar of soap to take home.
This session expands upon the skills taught in the basic soap workshop.

These sessions will be taught by Susie Hartman of Basin, Montana. Susie loves sharing this craft with others and specializes in tallow soaps. She has even taught a primitive soap making class using only sheep tallow and wood ash. Living on a high altitude, off-grid homestead, Susie spends time with her family, raising small livestock and practicing permaculture techniques. She is passionate about developing local food systems within her community and is currently working to develop a forest garden on a city park within the community of Boulder, Montana.

This workshop will be held at Broken Ground in Bozeman. Location and directions will be e-mailed upon registration. Space is limited so sign-up early! Please register in advance.

Cost is $45 for Session I, $20 for Session II and $60 for both sessions (includes materials).

Upcoming Workshops:
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Session I: 10am - 1pm
Session II: 2 - 3:30pm