Cooperative Extension Aromatherapy Body Care Workshops

Join NWIC’s Cooperative Extension’s Traditional Plants & Foods team every Wednesday afternoon for a month of aromatherapy body care workshop make & take events!

Each Wednesday through June 10, attendees will use traditional plants and foods to make various aromatherapy body care items.

Details:

Every Wednesday for the next four weeks from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. PDT in  the Cooperative Extension (Building 20) on Lummi campus.

-May 20: Stinging Nettle Shampoo

• Participants will use nettle infusions (powder oil) to make a shampoo bar and rinse. It helps promote growth and supports overall hair health.

-May 27: Foaming Bath Butter

• Participants will create a foaming bath butter using natural ingredients, carrier/essential oils & butters (cocoa/shea/coconut). It cleanses and moisturizes your skin.

-June 3: Floral Hydrosol

• Participants will create a floral hydrosol. Yarrow hydrosol provides many benefits for the skin, such as soothing sun/wind burns and relieves various skin irritations (bites, redness, reduces acne/scars, etc.)

-June 10: Herbal Incense 

• Participants will use various essential oils and dried herbs/resin to make a natural herbal incense and a liquid smudge spray.

Space is limited, so please pre-register by contacting NWIC’s Traditional Plants & Foods Coordinator Lora Boome via email at lboome@nwic.edu. **Please note that these workshops are only available on Lummi campus in person.

CEUs are also available.