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Spring Soap Making Retreat at Sea Cider!

$169 Includes Workshop, Retreat, Lunch, Cider
May 23
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Sea Cider Farm & CiderhouseView on map
HomeThings to DoSpring Soap Making Retreat at Sea Cider!

Join us for a Nourishing Day of Makery, Play & Connection ~ at our​ 1st ‘BOTANICAL SOAP MAKING’ Mini ​Spring Retreat, Saturday, MA​Y ​23rd, 11am-3pm, at the beautiful Sea Cider Farm + Ciderhouse!

Learn the fundamentals of traditional cold process soap making in this hands-on beginner workshop. You’ll be guided step-by-step through formulating, mixing, and pouring batches in small groups using high-quality oils and botanicals, while gaining a clear understanding of safety and technique. Leave with 8 of your own unique handcrafted bars of soap and the confidence to continue creating at home.

Learn to make ​cold pressed soap and take home 8 bards of your own handmade soap, AND…..
– Gather with wonderful local folk
In a beautiful and inspired location, with
– Drinks​, including Cider
– ​F​orest & Orchard Wander & Forage
– Delicious communal lunch

​B​e guided by Forest Etiquette Kristen Lambourne​, where you will be in great hands, in learning how to make beautiful soap of your own, inline with the Seasons.

Working with locally grown, wild-harvested, and farm-direct materials, we will explore the significance of utilizing locally sourced, nature based ingredients and learn how they can infuse small moments of joy and pleasure into daily life.

We will stop for lunch around 12:30pm and enjoy a communal long-table lunch. with delicious menu offerings from Sea Cider, followed by a ​guided wa​nder in the forest, to ​learn more about foraging in Season.
Menu will be provided before the day, for pre-orders ~ and is included in cost of workshop​, as well as cider (alc or non-alc) *tea, water provided too, and Pavilion bar open all day.

​20 Spaces Available!
INFO & REGISTRATION
https://www.makeshare.ca/soapmaking-workshop

$1​69 Includes 4 hr workshop, supplies, materials and ingredients​, long table lunch, cider, guided walk AND you will leave with 8 bars of your own handmade soap, and the knowledge to create soap at home!

Destination Greater Victoria is honoured to be based on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples of the Songhees Nation and Xwsepsum Nation, whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.