Sacred Skin: Crafting Herbal Creams, Salves, & Tallow-Based Body Care
In this hands-on class, you’ll learn how to create your own herbal body care using ancestral methods that reconnect you to the intelligence of plants, oils, and traditional preparation.
We explore the art of making herbal medicine through creams, salves, balms, and tallow-based preparations. Learning how to transform herbs into deeply nourishing, long-lasting skin remedies.
You’ll be guided through the core principles that make plant medicine effective: relationship, attention, time, and temperature and how these elements shape potency and therapeutic value.
From infused oils to whipped creams and protective salves, you’ll learn how to:
Infuse herbs into oils using both slow and heat-based methods
Work with ingredients like olive oil, jojoba, coconut, tallow, shea butter, and beeswax
Formulate salves, balms, creams, and lotions for different skin needs
Understand ratios, textures, and shelf life
Create practical recipes for skin repair, muscle support, and daily nourishment
You’ll also make traditional preparations like calendula salve, calming herbal balms, and whipped tallow creams, while learning how to adapt recipes for your own environment and body.
This is a return to practical, grounded herbalism where skin care becomes a daily ritual of connection, simplicity, and care through plants.
Sacred Skin: Crafting Herbal Creams, Salves & Tallow-Based Body Care - With Lindsay
A hands-on class dedicated to the art of nourishing the skin with whole, traditional ingredients. We’ll explore herbal-infused oils, tallow-based balms, and simple creams that support skin repair, hydration, and daily ritual care. Students will learn foundational formulation skills, how to choose herbs for different skin needs, and the difference between creams, salves, and balms. This class centers ancestral wisdom, ingredient integrity, and the pleasure of making effective body care by hand.
