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Workshops, lectures & presentations range in topic from native edible/medicinal plant hikes, wildcrafting herbs, herbal preparations, salve making, soap making, homemade cosmetics & beauty preparations, identifying ingredients of concern and reading cosmetics labels.
2010 Schedule:
February 10th: Newswatch @ 5:30, Erin will be sharing some of her secrets as the Newswatch team visits her at her home production studio in Omemee.
April 17th: Making herbal oils, County Garden Show , Crystal Palace, Picton, ON.
Contact us to arrange a workshop for your group, centre or organization. All workshops are customizable.
Workshop titles:
Contact Erin for more information. (info@bigtubbotanicals.com).
Healing Salves from Common Weeds: Our Grandmother's Recipes
Erin highlights a few time-tested & well trusted simple herbal infusions for common skin irritations. Participants make their own infusion to take home.
From Kitchen to Bath: Truly Fresh Homemade Skin Care Recipes
Erin shows how to transform common foods into nourishment for the skin. Have a spa quality skin care experience at home, with your own homemade creations.
Greener Cleaners You Can Make
Erin explores homemade alternatives to harsh chemical cleaners & demonstrates their ability to do the job right! Learn how to make your own window, toilet, stove, & floor skin cleaners, laundry aids, furniture polish & more
Cold-Process Soap Making
This is an intensive, all-day workshop that takes you through authentic cold-process soap making. Take your unique creation home.
***Currently not being offered.***
Education & outreach topics:
These topics can be explored as workshops, talks, or articles. Ideal for women's groups, community groups, health & wellness and/or green publications, & more. Contact Erin for more information. (info@bigtubbotanicals.com).
Avoiding Ingredients of Concern: The Why & How
Many common ingredients in skin care & home cleaning products are untested & unregulated at best, and associated with irritation & illness at worst. Many people want to avoid such ingredients, but find it overwhelming since these ingredients are so pervasive and have such long & confusing names. However, avoiding them can be easier than we think.
Inside Out: The Whole Story on Healthy Skin
These days the skin care industry is full of miraculous claims. You can turn back the clock, stop time, make things disappear, reappear, reverse, renew, regenerate, rejuvenate, & more. Sold to us by people in lab coats with clip boards, we are led to believe the same innovation that allows us to travel into space can make us all look like movie stars. Increasingly we are realizing that while the ingredients have been manufactured in laboratories, they do a mediocre job of removing fine lines, and do a great job of building up in our bodies as toxins & carcinogens. There are many factors that influence the condition & appearance of skin. How can we renew, rejuvenate & regenerate without all of the side effects?
Making Labels Meaningful
Savvy marketers are catching on: green & all-natural beauty are the way of the future. Unfortunately a lack of regulation makes many of these claims meaningless. Reading ingredients remains the only sure way to know what's inside. However, even this can seem pointless when we cannot recognize what we're reading. Are there some simple rules or guidelines to help make sense of what we're reading?
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