Detailed course itinerary
An hour’s drive from Montpellier and Beziers in the Languedoc region, set in a valley surrounded by trees, wild flowers and herbs is a lovingly restored French house built in the 1700's where your personalised make your own cosmetics and beauty products course takes place.
Spend 3 nights / 4 days over the weekend in an elegantly restored house with weathered stone floors, beautiful rooms, restaurant, massage room, perfume and cosmetic creation lab.
Using only the highest quality natural organically grown ingredients, you’ll learn to create a wide array of personalised beauty products including a facial scrub, lip balm, balms or creams, massage oil or toner tailored to suit your own skin type.
Go learn to make your own organic beauty products on this unique weekend course and take home the skills and recipes needed to recreate your products back home that will change the way you think about skin care long after the holiday is over.
Suitability
- Suitable for all
- Please note that this course is based on a minimum of 2 persons sharing a room
- If you are travelling solo, you may be able to join another group, please email or call us on 08445 020445 with your ideal date
- Please note that single rooms carry a small supplement (£60)
- Your hosts are English and French speakers
Cosmetics Course Start Days
- This make your own cosmetics course starts on Fridays
- You will stay for 3 nights / 4 days
- Courses run from May - October
- As an exception start date to the weekend dates are Monday 20 July and Sunday 23 August only
Weekend Make Your Own Beauty Products Itinerary
Day 1
- Arrive on Friday afternoon
- You are welcome to check in to your room anytime after 2pm, earlier arrivals are welcome although rooms will not be available until after 2pm
- Spend your first afternoon relaxing, enjoying the surroundings and exploring the area (the village Lunas is around 45 minutes walk away)
- Dinner with wine will be served in the hotel’s restaurant
Day 2 & 3
- Following breakfast, you’ll head to the conference room for your theory lesson or if the sun is not too hot, you may sit outside
- You’ll have a full day cosmetics and beauty product creation lesson each day running between 9.30am and 5pm each day with a break for a light lunch
- The days will be spent learning how to create your own personalised products including things like a facial scrub, lip balm, hand or foot balm, massage oil or toner using natural, organically produced ingredients
- As you have two full days, you’ll have plenty of time to refine and balance your products to create something that will benefit your skin and body and give you the skills to recreate your products once back at home
- Please note that all essential oils are of the highest quality and are all organically produced
- You’ll head to the restaurant for dinner with wine each evening
Day 4
- After breakfast guests are asked to check-out of their rooms by 11am ready for departure taking home with them new Cosmetic creation skills and an insight into the benefits of all natural products that will stay with them long after the holiday is over
What Will I Learn?
- You will receive an introduction in to the production of cosmetic beauty products and how to create all natural ‘recipes’ suited to your skin type
- Learn about the ingredients used in natural cosmetics and their effect on your body including vegetable oils, floral waters, essential oils, butters and waxes
- You will receive a personal skin analysis that will enable you to choose ingredients with properties suited to your individual needs
- You’ll learn how to make a scrub, lip balm, balms or creams, massage oil or toner
- As all the beauty products are tailored to suit you, you'll learn techniques to create your next batch of personalised cosmetics when you return home so you can create new creams, toners and balms in the future for you and your friends
Accommodation
- This elegantly restored house is perched at the top of a winding road surrounded by gardens
- There is a swimming pool with views over the valley
- The hotel is split into two buildings, the main hotel and an old stone gite, there are 11 rooms in total which are decorated in a fresh and simple style with wooden shutters, some with exposed stonework and all with well equipped bathrooms complete with organic homemade toiletries
- All prices are based on two persons sharing the twin/double standard rooms, singles can book these for sole occupancy subject to availability for a £60 supplement, just add the supplement during the booking process to confirm your single room
Optional Airport / Train Station Transfer
- Please note that there is no public transport to the hotel and car hire or a pre-booked transfer is recommended
- Transfers from Montpellier or Beziers airport or train station can be added for between 120-150 Euros per car each way (this cost can be shared with other guests if arrival times coincide)
Go learn to create your own personalised cosmetics on this unique beauty products course where you’ll gain an insight into the benefits of all natural cosmetics and take home a host of products tailored to suit your skin as well as new skills that will allow you to recreate the products over and over long after the holiday is over.
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