Workshops List
Herbs for the Home 101 - Essential Oils
March 14 - 19, 2010
During this hands-on class, Susan Belsinger will discuss using herbs and essential oils for cleaning house, making herbal spa products and home remedies, as well as first aid and gardener’s comforts. She will show you how to use common household ingredients and demonstrate recipes from her book the creative herbal home, co-authored with the Ozark Folk Center’s own Tina Marie Wilcox.
Once you get to know the herbs and oils, become familiar with their fragrances and characteristics, you will find them an essential part of your life. The first day we will concentrate on herb basics and day two we’ll work with essential oils, creating household cleaning agents, sugar scrubs, spritzers, bath salts, bath bags, herbal salve, tinctures and insect repellent. On our last half day we’ll create formulas and experience an herbal facial steam, a natural mask for your skin type, and a relaxing foot soak. Handouts and folders included.
A non-refundable registration fee of $45 is due at the time of registration. The remainder of the class fee ($205.00) and the materials fee is due to the instructor at the beginning of class. Susan accepts cash or check. (does not include meals/lodging)
Minimum 3 students/maximum 12
Instructor: Susan Belsinger
Susan Belsinger is a culinary herbalist who delights in kitchen alchemy—the blending of harmonious foods, herbs, and spices—to create real, delicious food and libations, as well as herbal products for the body and home, that nourish our bodies and spirits and titillate our senses. Susan teaches, lectures, and writes about the many aspects of herbs, and is a food writer, editor and photographer who has authored/co-authored 20 books and been published in numerous national magazines and newspapers. Currently, she blogs for Taunton Press’ www.vegetablegardener.com and has been contributing editor to Herb Companion for ten years. Susan uses herbs in her everyday life to create a healthy lifestyle. Her work is to write and teach about these experiences and it brings her great joy to share these things with others.