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Cream Bases for Herbal Skin Care - Certified Online Course - 09-AUGUST-2025
Cream Bases for Herbal Skin Care - Certified Online Course - 09-AUGUST-2025
Cream Bases for Herbal Skin Care - Certified Online Course - 09-AUGUST-2025
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Cream Bases for Herbal Skin Care - Certified Online Course - 09-AUGUST-2025

Sale price$219 AUD

PART 2 of Herbal Skin Craft: Foundations of Herbal Skin Care Making 3-part certified online training for naturopaths, herbalists and formulators

Pre-approved by NHAA for 3 hours of CPD in the Formal Learning category.

Date & Time

SATURDAY 09-AUGUST-2025 10.00am-12.00pm AEST (replay is available for 6 months if signing up for this course only or for 12 months if taking part within the Herbal Skin Craft offering)

Course content

To turn a cream base into a therapeutic herbal cream, one needs to add appropriate herbal extracts in sufficient amount. A successful cream base accommodates additional herbal extracts while maintaining thermodynamic and microbiological stability of the final product. Furthermore, next to stability, the formulation of a cream base plays an important role in the therapeutic success of the final herbal cream. This course will guide you through the process of manufacturing stable cream bases that allow for addition of herbal extracts ex tempore. Emphasis is placed on a fit-for-purpose formulation of cream bases that yield final herbal creams tailored to specific skin needs. The class is complemented by a practical spreadsheet calculator.

You will:

  • Develop detailed understanding of basic cosmetic chemistry principles to formulate stable emulsions.
  • Gain the capacity to choose from various emulsifying waxes and preservatives.
  • Understand how to activate cream bases, i.e. which cream bases are suitable for addition of different types of herbal extracts and how much extracts can be added.
  • Master the manufacturing process of cream bases.

Do you struggle to make stable herbal creams using commercially available cream bases?

Would you like to know how to make your own cream base and how to fine tune its composition to make fit-for-purpose herbal creams that suit your clients' skin needs?

Would you like to know what type and how much of herbal extracts you can add to your cream bases?

Do you have doubts about the making process?

If you answered YES to any of the above questions, then this 2h deep dive into cream bases for herbal creams is for YOU!

Who is it for

This course is suitable for experienced herbal medicine makers, qualified or student naturopaths and herbalists, pharmacists, aromatherapists, cosmetic chemists and aestheticians who would like to deepen their knowledge of the skin and herbal medicine for the skin. To home / community herbalists, and skin care formulators these courses will provide university-level education within the context of a practical application and in an easy-to-digest engaging manner..

Modules
  • Basics of cream bases, incl. where they fit in dermal dosage forms. 
  • Formulating your cream base, including a detailed overview of 7 emulsifying waxes and 6 preservatives.
  • Fine-tuning your cream base.
  • Step-by-step making of your cream base.
  • Practical considerations.
  • Activating your cream base with herbal extracts.
  • Generous time for Q&A.
Format

Live online masterclass (2 hours). A link will be sent to you prior to the meeting. Recording will be available for 6 months* after the course. A selection of downloadable digital resources will be shared, this includes a practical spreadsheet calculator to calculate ingredients for your tailored cream bases. Note that participants of the Herbal Skin Craft course have access to the recording for 12 months.

ABOUT THE TUTOR

Karolina "Kaja" Skraskova holds a Masters degree in Pharmacy from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. During this course Kaja studied not only various forms of chemistry but also pharmaceutical botany, pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical compounding. Kaja further holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Kaja has more than 8 years of experience formulating and making award-winning herbal skin care, using the principles of Galenic formulation. She delivered several invited talks on the topic to naturopathy students at Australian universities. Kaja enjoys teaching qualified naturopaths and herbalists, BHSc students and the broad public at the interface of herbalism and cosmetic science. She revels in presenting information new and old from refreshing angles. More information about Kaja and her work can be found here.

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Christie
Cream bases for herbal skincare

I found this course to really fill in the gaps, expand on my knowledge and add more depth to the emulsions I was making. Very easy to understand and Kaja is just a wealth of knowledge who was most happy to take the time to answer all questions. Thanks Kaja! Looking forward to the next class!

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Helen
Refreshingly unique

Kaja’s education is refreshingly unique. The Cream Bases for Herbal Skin Care Webinar was excellent! There is so much more to learn about making herbal skin creams than I ever imagined and Kaja is a wealth of knowledge on the topic.

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Nozomi
Very scientific but great regardless!

The class was amazing! It was a lot more intense than I expected so I watched the record a couple of times but I need to rewatch it over and over by the end of this month! Thank you so much for sharing such a great information❤️ I didn’t even know what I didn’t know about how to make herbal cream!😂 And I guess you could charge more 😛

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Elaine
Clear and concise communication, easily digestible

I’ve just watched the replay of the Cream Bases for Herbal Skin Care class that I was not able to attend live and I want to say thank you so much for your clear and concise communication, video presentation and pdf resources. You’ve laid it all out very nicely.

I’m not a naturopath myself but a nerdy budding herbalist interested in making the things I need for myself and those around me and the science behind it alll makes it all the more interesting!

I really appreciated you sharing what you know. It was really easily digestible and particularly found the content on various emulsifying waxes to be quite informative.