Soap Making

You will use the herbs and sand you forage from the Cyclades to make your own natural beauty products.

For hundreds of years villagers were creating their own soaps and herbal infusions based on locally-grown, naturally wild, hand-foraged plants and herbs.  Using traditional recipes with extra virgin olive oil, I will show you how to make goat’s milk soap infused with herbs from the Greek countryside in aire libre (or in Zoom workshops or in my atelier in Astoria, NYC.) 

I lead workshops on creating fun bath bombs, foot fizzies and natural cosmetics– made with ingredients we forage from the seaside literally the day of the workshop.  These include lemon-honey moisturizing cream,  pomegranate sugar scrubs, and Aegean sea salt daily cleanser.  These make perfect gifts to bring home to loved ones. Relax tired muscles in a bath infused with organic wild-foraged herbs from the countryside of the Cyclades, leave skin silky with artisanal soap made from traditional recipes from yiayia’s time.   

Your all-natural soaps carry only 100% natural oils such as extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, avocado and jojoba oil, and goat milk, (yes! not just good to eat but great to bathe in–Cleopatra’s beauty secret).

What a better way to bring back the summer?  These make perfect souvenir gifts to take back to family and friends as keepsakes of your stay in the sun-soaked Mediterranean.