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Back Porch Soap Company
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(4.8-star rating across 164 reviews)

Back Porch Soap Company, founded by Marla Bosworth in 1998, offers workshops and classes on making natural skincare products, essential oil blends, and natural wax candles. Marla is well-known in the natural skincare community and provides a comfortable environment for students to learn and ask questions.

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Back Porch Soap Company

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Herbal Skincare: Body Butters, Balms and Salves

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Come join in the fun and learn to make a variety of beautiful, natural bath and body products with natural ingredients including herbs, botanicals, and essential oils: lotion bars, salves and balms, body scrubs, and herbal butter! This is a great class for massage therapists, spa owners, bath and body company owners, and anyone who wants to make incredibly good-for-your-body products. As a class, we'll make a batch of luscious lotion bars. Lotion...

(164) All levels 16 and older
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$168
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Organic Lotion & Body Creams Workshop

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Learn how to create your own personalized body creams and lotions in this hands-on workshop with Marla Bosworth. Students will explore a wide range of ingredients to incorporate into their own best-selling, signature products or to simply make for themselves and others. This workshop is also intended for students who are already making creams and lotions and are struggling with creating a formula that works for them. In this easy-to-follow...

(164) All levels 16 and older
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$198
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Organic Liquid Soaps & Shower Gels Class

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Make your own versatile organic liquid soap and shower gels! In this class, students will learn to make recipes for the bath, shower and at the sink. If you're making them for yourself, you'll save money by making your own liquid soaps and reduce the use of plastics. If you're making to sell, you're hitting a lucrative market as liquid soaps outsell bar soaps and don't require any cure time. In this fun class we will make liquid soap from scratch...

(164) All levels 16 and older
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$198
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Organic Cold Process Soap Immersive with Essential Oils

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

This course is Organic * Vegan * Cruelty-Free * Palm-Free This is a 3-hour, hands-on, immersive soapmaking workshop offered by master soapmaker, Marla Bosworth. In this class students will make their very own batch of cold process soap (about 8 bars). Learn how to use plants, essential oils and other organic, natural ingredients to make soap from scratch using the cold process method. Marla will share her 21 years of soapmaking experience and her...

(164) All levels 18 and older
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$168
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Masterclass: Organic Facial Skincare Beauty Products

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Join Marla Bosworth in this evening workshop and customize your own highly effective, plant-based, clean beauty products for the face. Many consumers are disappointed in the results of overpriced facial skincare products and the lack of natural ingredients they contain. In this 3-hour intensive class (which sounds like a long time to learn, but students say it is super fun and goes by quick just in case you were wondering!), you will learn how to...

(164) All levels 18 and older
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$168
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Organic Body Creams & Lotions Class

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Discover the secrets to formulating your own luxurious organic body creams and lotions in this hands-on workshop. Explore a wide range of ingredients and gain a strong understanding of the best emulsifiers, oils, butter, and preservatives. Create signature products or make them for friends and family with no experience necessary.

(164) All levels 16 and older
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$198
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Nourishing, Emulsified Body Scrubs & Body Butters

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Learn how to make spa-quality, emulsified body scrubs and luscious body butters. Holly will walk you through step-by-step how to make these products. You'll learn how to formulate your own recipes using all-natural ingredients and essential oils. This is a hands-on workshop where Holly will show you how to make spa-quality, products. If you've never tried an emulsified scrub then you are in for a treat. They are rich and creamy, much different from...

(164) All levels 16 and older
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$135
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Make Your Own Fragrant Reed Diffusers and Room Sprays Class

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Students will learn how to create beautiful, customized reed diffusers and room sprays in this 2 hour, hands-on workshop taught by an expert fragrance formulator with 25 years experience. Students will learn to blend their own natural scents. If you are interested in making diffusers and room sprays to sell or as a craft for gifts or favors, this class is for you. Your instructor for the class, Marla Bosworth, has been manufacturing and selling natural...

(164) All levels 18 and older
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$128
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Journey in Wildcrafting Cold Process Soap Workshop

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Beginner to Intermediate Class This is a hands-on workshop journey experience offered by Marla Bosworth. Marla is excited to debut this workshop first to her students in New York City before teaching it in other parts of the country and online.  In this nature and spiritual energy-inspired workshop you will learn ways to use wildcrafted botanicals and healing modalities in cold process soap. You'll also have...

(164) Beginner 16 and older
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$198
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Masterclass: Natural Shampoos and Bodywashes

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

In this new masterclass, students will learn to formulate their own natural shampoos and bodywashes to add to their indie beauty product lineup or to make and give as gifts to family members and friends. By the end of class students will gain knowledge and understanding of how to formulate a variety of shampoos, facewashes and bodywashes that can also be used as liquid soaps. This class is taught by Marla Bosworth, CEO of Back Porch Soap Company....

(164) All levels 18 and older
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$224
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Design Your Own Cold Process Soap

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

This course is Organic * Vegan * Cruelty-Free * Palm-Free Make your own batch of cold process soap in this 2.5-hour, hands-on, in-person immersive soapmaking workshop in the Upper West Side taught by master soapmaker, Marla Bosworth. Students will learn how to use plants and other organic, natural ingredients to make soap from scratch using the cold process method. Each student will design and create their own batch of soap to take home (which...

(164) All levels 16 and older
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$248
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Making + Selling Hemp CBD Skincare Beauty Products

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Learn how to launch your own CBD skincare line in this hands-on workshop in New York City.  The CBD skincare market is expected to grow 22.2% from 2019 to 2025. That's incredible growth opportunity! In this class students will learn how to legally make and sell hemp CBD skincare. Come learn more about this industry. In class we will make two full-sized products for students take home: CBD-Infused Herbal Cream CBD-Infused Balm (Newly...

(164) All levels 21 and older
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$248
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Formulating Men's Natural Grooming Essentials

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

In this brand new masterclass, students will learn to formulate natural and herbal skincare and haircare grooming essentials for men. These products are spa and top-of-the-line quality, perfect to add to your indie beauty business or to make and use yourself or give as gifts to family members and friends. Fall is the perfect time to learn to make essentials for male grooming to give as gifts or create giftsets to add to your holiday lineup...

(164) All levels 18 and older
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$248
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Designing Your Own Ritual Beauty Products

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

This class is open to anyone who wishes to connect to through the Divine to create mystical healing tools for themselves and others. Whether you're an energy and holistic practioner or someone who practices mindfulness and conscious living you'll find this class enlightening and joyful. You'll learn how to customize to your liking three gorgeous products: meditation/intention container candles, energy sprays and plant medicine sea salt soak and scrub....

(164) All levels 18 and older
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$248
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Hair Styling Products and Treatments

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

This course is Organic * Vegan * Cruelty-Free This is a 3-hour, hands-on, immersive haircare class offered by 25-year cosmetic formulator, Marla Bosworth. In this class students will learn how to use plants and other organic, natural ingredients to make haircare styling and treatments from scratch. Students will learn to make three haircare products: Shampoo, Conditioner, and Serums to encourage beautiful, healthy hair as well as restoration and...

(164) All levels 16 and older
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$248
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1:1 Perfume Blending Session

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Design your own custom organic perfume in this 1:1, one-hour session with Marla Bosworth. Marla will guide you through the blending process as you create your own signature blend. You'll leave with a gorgeous 10 ml glass roll-on natural perfume bottle with your specially chosen blend. Marla Bosworth is an alchemist, and a natural perfumer. She has been blending essential oils for more than two decades. Class Location: Upper West Side, West 66th...

(164) All levels 21 and older
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$248
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The Art of Essential Oil Blending Class

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Learn how to custom blend essential oils and create best-selling, signature blends for soaps, candles, natural perfumes and indie beauty bath and body products. This course is an intensive blending experience and also a chance for students to experience a wide variety of essential oils. Each student will create two of their own blends and take them home in a beautiful, roll-on glass perfume bottle. Students also receive a valuable class handout with...

(164) All levels 16 and older
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$248
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"Unleash Your Beauty Brand's Potential" Business Class

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

This "Unleash Your Beauty Brand's Potential" class will maximize your beauty brand's potential for 2023 holiday sales and build momentum through 2024. You will learn to connect deeper with your target market and increase sales. Gain insights into topics including where to best spend your time on marketing, pricing strategies, forecasting and reaching sales goals.  Marla Bosworth will also discuss how to build your brand to exceed consumers’...

(164) All levels 16 and older
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$248
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Aromatic Journey: Ancient Woods, Botanicals & Resins

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Come join us for a magical evening of discovering your ancient alchemist within during this journey through wildcrafted resins, woods and botanicals. This is a hands-on, aromatic journey where Marla will guide you through discovering a wide variety of elements that you may have never experienced. Come learn how to blend elements for loose incense and for aromatherapy room and body fragrance. After class, students can choose which elements they...

(164) All levels 18 and older
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$168
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Wildcrafted Body Butters, Lip Balms & Scrubs

Back Porch Soap Company @ 711 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY

Come join in the fun and learn to make a variety of beautiful bath and body products: healing salves and balms, body scrubs, and body butters! This is a great class for massage therapists, spa owners, bath and body company owners, and anyone who wants to make incredibly good-for-your-body products. As a class we'll make a batch of luscious body butters - whipped up nice and light! Body butters are wonderful for massages and for dry skin. They are...

(164) All levels 18 and older
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$168
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