Lotions & Potions - Natural Body Care (ages 10-14)

Mad scientist meets fragrant, healing concoctions! Learn how to easily make your own healthy and great-smelling wellness products from safe, natural ingredients, and learn about the chemistry behind the ingredients used for each product. We will learn how some chemicals in commonly sold commercial beauty products can be harmful to people and the planet, and how healthy versions can calm, soothe, and comfort bodies and minds. In addition to topical applications, you will learn how herbs can calm the system, promoting healthy skin from the inside out. You will focus on a different herb each day, and prepare and drink delicious herbal teas. 

You will take home a different product (or two) each day, including a jar of lotion, a tin of salve, a jar of lip balm, a bottle of massage oil, a mister of facial spray, a jar of exfoliating scrub, a jar of bath salts, and a bag of herbal tea.