Wild Harvest School
Soap and Candle Making Gift Experience
Soap and Candle Making Gift Experience
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A gift experience for two to four guests to come to Wild Harvests cosy workshop on our tipi site in the rural outskirts of York and make three bars of soap and a pack of pure beeswax candles.
Gift Experience Duration Approximately 2 Hours.
Please Note: It is a PRIVATE BOOKING meaning you do not have to share the experience with a group of others who have booked the same experience. If you are doing a price comparison, do ensure you are comparing like for like!
Easy free parking on site, and toilet facilities. Refreshments of hot drink and snack bar are included.
Bring a packed lunch and eat it on the tipi site picnic benches in the sun or around the covered fire circle in the rain to extend your time here.
Soap Making Session
Learn about soap making as you mix your own range of botanical and mineral ingredients, essential oils and any colour options into your soap moulds. We use English made glycerin soap base of various types but explain the traditional lye methods as we craft.
Luxury Botanical and Mineral Additions for You to Pick and Mix From Include...
- Organic Goat Milk Powder
- Ground Rose Petals
- Zinc Oxide
- Organic Oatmeal
- Powdered British Seaweed
- French Lavender
- Rose Essential Oil
(These are just a few from a large selection - get creative in your personal blend and create something that suits YOUR skin type).
Candle Making Session
The candles are hand-rolled beeswax sheets and each person makes three tall dinner candles or a pack of six smaller candles - packaged prettily and decorated with herbs and flowers from the garden.
This Soap Making Gift Experience with Beeswax Candles, is Ideal For ...
- Mothers and Daughters Looking For Quality Time Together (Mothers day gift experience).
- Partners who want to learn to live more naturally and sustainably.
- A Work Team Experience - out of work on their days off.
Please Note Experience Gifts are Not Available on Saturdays during our main teaching season. We can do Wednesdays and Sundays all year around, and Saturdays from around early Oct. to late March.
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Where are you based?
We are based in the rural outskirts of York, 12 miles from the city, but we.do work all over. If you are coming here for your glamping, activities or walks/course then we can be found on Google maps HERE
Can I Bring My Dog?
To the wild food walks yes, well behaved dogs on leads are welcome. To the tipi site... Sorry we love animals but we. have a free range sheep, hens and an old labrador. Plus we have a policy of no animals in the units to keep them feeling fresh and ok for allergy sufferers. We are down the road from Storwood Kennels if you need pet boarding.
What if I Can't Make It?
We know you wouldn't want us to cancel on you and hope that you see we book tutors, organise resources and block time out for bookings so we allow you to sell your space on, or gift it to a friend. Or we can offer you online courses and ebooks instead.
What Areas Do You Cover?
If you want to book us to come to you...Our radius for attended walks, courses and activities bookings is approximately from Newcastle in the North to Nottingham in the South, Hull in the East to Manchester in the West. if in doubt just ask in the chat box or enquiry form.
Why Choose Wild Harvest?
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Long Established
We have stood the test of time. Established in 2006 we are nearly 20 years old! We have survived pandemics and recessions and are still here. Read our reviews as testimony to how hard we work to keep you happy! Others have come and gone but we are still strong through our professionalism, quality of service for the price, and resilience.
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Support Female-Led Independent Small Business.
Wild Harvest was set up by a single mum of three... slowly building a business around her children, without any help. No grants, no Daddy's purse strings - just hard work and dedication and determination to provide affordable sustainable education.
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Reliable - Book Us and We WILL Be There!
Over all our time we have not cancelled a single session. If we commit to being there we will be there. I cringe when I see other teaching businesses cancel for personal reasons regularly letting people down and I truly believe in honouring your booking with my effort to get us there.
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Quality of Service Combined with Value For Money
Here you will find qualified thorough tutors, and natural, local materials yet we remain more affordable than our competitors due to our mission to provide sustainable education to ALL. This affordable quality in offering services that Don't Cost the Earth is what has kept us going for two decades!