Luxury Facial Serums
~with Alice Duvernell~

**Check out Alice's Herbal Facial Care Product Making Boot Camp
which includes THIS CLASS and FIVE OTHERS -- all in 3 PACKED DAYS!**

In this unique hands-on and demo class, learn how to create your own luxury facial serums. Serums are a very popular product in the cosmetic industry today. They are used most commonly at night, and their purpose is to nourish the skin deeply with precious ingredients.

You will learn how to make two different types of facial serums to help regenerate and heal the skin. Alice will first demo the more complex gel/water/oil serum and then invite you to customize your own oil-based serum with high quality essential oils and precious carrier oils that you can choose, based on your skin type.

Throughout the class, you will be introduced to the techniques on how to incorporate precious hydrosols (distillate waters from plants), essential oils, infused herbs and different types of herbal extracts. You will learn properties of the different carrier oils (like which are anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, nourishing, etc.) and find out how to properly preserve your serums. Also, we will discuss how to use natural gums as jellifying agents (for the gel-based serum).

Students will take home helpful handouts, a 1 oz. gel-based serum in an airless pump bottle, and a 1 oz. oil-based serum in a luxury glass dropper.

ABOUT THE TEACHER:
Alice Duvernell is an artist & gilder who recently moved to the Bay Area after living in the south of France for the past 8 years. There she started researching problematic & sensitive skin types & developed an interest in the amazing virtues of essential oils & hydrosols. Her interest in culture & her studies in anthropology led her to travel in South America where she expanded her passion & awareness in native medicinal plants. During her last journey to Brazil, she set up a laboratory where she shared with the locals her techniques for making hydrosols & other cosmetics, using native plants. See our teacher page to view Alice's current classes.

SIGN-UP DETAILS:
Refer to the table above for price, date, time and registration options. Contact us at 510-234-5700 with any questions. Please read the Class Policies & Info Page before signing up.

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