Advanced Cold Process Soap Making Course

Go beyond pre-made recipes and learn how to understand, modify, and create your own cold process soap formulations.

This training is aimed at people who have already mastered the basics of saponification and wish to deepen their understanding of oils, butters, fatty acids, additives, fragrances, colorants, and creative techniques.

You will learn to formulate with intention, analyze a recipe, and make the necessary adjustments to obtain the desired result.

🧪 ADVANCED FORMULATION

Learn how to build and modify your own recipes:

• Choosing and combining oils and butters
• Understanding the main fatty acids and their influence on soap
• Calculating lye and water
• Adjusting superfat and concentration
• Modifying and adapting a formulation
• Analyzing a recipe’s properties: hardness, lather, cleansing, and creaminess
• Creating a personalized formulation

🌿 ADDITIVES, ACTIVES, AND SPECIALIZED INGREDIENTS

Discover how to integrate different ingredients into your formulations and understand their influence on the batter and the final result:

• Clays
• Activated charcoal
• Botanical powders
• Exfoliants
• Milks
• Honey and sugars
• Salt
• Macerated oils
• Other specialized ingredients

🌸 FRAGRANCES, ESSENTIAL OILS, AND COLORING

Learn how to work with fragrances, essential oils, and colorants while taking into account their behavior in soap.

You will cover topics such as:

• Trace acceleration
• Potential color changes
• Working time
• Choosing and combining colors
• Incorporating fragrances and colorants
• Adapting techniques based on the ingredients used

ANALYSIS & CORRECTION

Learn to understand what can cause an unexpected result and identify possible adjustments.

We will cover:

• Trace happening too quickly
• Soap being too soft
• Insufficient lather
• Excessively high cleansing power
• Batter being difficult to work with
• Color change
• Unexpected behavior of a fragrance
• Formulation adjustments

🧼 YOUR CREATION

You will put your knowledge into practice by making 500g of cold process soap.

You will be able to customize your creation according to your preferences:

✔️ Formulation
✔️ Oils and butters
✔️ Additives
✔️ Fragrance
✔️ Colors
✔️ Marbling or swirl technique

You will leave with your creation and the knowledge needed to continue developing your own recipes at home.

✔️ You already master the basics of cold process saponification
✔️ You want to create your own recipes
✔️ You no longer want to rely solely on pre-made recipes
✔️ You want to understand the role of raw materials
✔️ You wish to delve deeper into additives and specialized ingredients
✔️ You want to improve your marbling and creative techniques
✔️ You wish to become autonomous in your formulation

Prerequisite: basic knowledge of cold process saponification and safe handling of lye.

✔️ 3-hour in-person training
✔️ Theory + practice
✔️ 500g of soap made during the workshop
✔️ All necessary raw materials
✔️ Protective equipment and gear
✔️ Instructor guidance

🎁 BONUS: 10% discount on eligible in-store products on the day of your training. Certain conditions apply.

Repentigny
144C Notre-Dame, Repentigny, QC

🚗 Free parking available at our Montreal workshop.

⏰ INFORMATION

Duration: 3 hours
Format: In-person
Quantity made: 500g
Minimum age: 16 years old

Public sessions are confirmed with a minimum of 4 participants. If the minimum is not reached, the session may be rescheduled to a later date.

❌ CANCELLATION POLICY

No refunds.

Any cancellation made at least 24 hours before the workshop may be eligible for an in-store credit equivalent to the amount paid.

👥 PRIVATE WORKSHOPS

Would you like to book this activity for a group?

We offer private workshops for birthdays, activities with friends, corporate events, private groups, and special celebrations.

📧 info@atelierevia.ca
📞 450-582-1388