Gift Making Workshop

Maker's Fair: Create and Celebrate



7 hours Location Sebastopol Class size 20 to 30 guests   $10

Unleash your inner alchemist and join us for a full day of delightful, hands-on creation! Guided by Alice Duvernell, a certified aromatherapist and passionate plant advocate, this workshop is designed for makers of all ages to craft beautiful, natural products with their own hands.
Inspired by Alice's own journey from a curious nature-lover to the founder of Biophilia Botanicals, this class is all about connecting with the joyful, healing power of plants and natural formulations. You'll learn the stories behind the ingredients and the simple magic of turning them into luxurious, heartfelt gifts.
This makers fair is perfect for:
  • Families looking for a unique and creative activity for the holidays.
  • Anyone wanting to make meaningful handmade gifts for the holidays.
  • Anyone curious about natural skincare and the wonderful world of aromatherapy!
In this fun-filled, station-based workshop, you and your friends/family will craft and take home:
  • Aromatherapy Roll-Ons: Choose your favorite uplifting or calming essential oil scents to create a personalized pocket-sized potion for wellness on the go.
  • Soothing Lip Balms: Whip up a batch of ultra-nourishing, naturally flavored lip balms in cute tins or tubes—perfect for keeping or gifting!
  • Luscious Cacao Butter Lotion Bars: Experience the pure magic of molding these rich, chocolate-scented bars that melt into your skin for deep hydration. (Yes, they smell good enough to eat!) (Workshop is happening on Sunday afternoon only from 2 to 4:30pm.)
  • Aromatherapy Mineral Bath Salts and Scrubs: Mix up a beautiful jar of bath-time bliss with Epsom salts, vibrant clays, organic dried flowers and plants, organic carrier oils, and your choice of essential oils for the ultimate soak and scrub.
  • Herbal Bath Teas: Make a fun gift of a tea for a bath, foot bath, or facial steam. This maker's station is free of charge!
Come make a mess, make memories, and make something wonderful!
This will be a "station-based" event. Participate in any or all of the stations depending on your interests. Prices for each station are separate and vary from $20 to $75 depending on how many of each product you take home and the cost of the ingredients. Included are all materials and take-home products. We provide premium organic ingredients, essential oils, and charming containers for your creations. No experience is necessary—just bring your creativity and joy!
NOTE: The entrance ticket does not cover the Makers Stations. It is for entrance only and includes an elderberry warm apple cider beverage (non-alcoholic). You can come and go as you desire. You can make as much or as little as you wish. The times listed reflect our open hours for the maker stations at our facility.
What you'll get
The items that you make.
Knowledge required
None. Beginners welcome.
What to bring
Enthusiasm and creativity.
Suitable for

This class is great for a birthday or bachelorette party.

Location

Biophilia Botanicals - 489 South Main Street, Sebastopol, CA

Gift Making Workshop location
Your teacher

Biophilia Botanicals
Biophilia Botanicals


Alice Encinas Duvernell, MA, the formulator and creator of Biophilia, is a French Ethno-Botanist who specializes in restorative community herbal aromatic therapies and product design for healing, culinary, cosmetic and perfumery purposes. Her formal ethno-botany studies at the Sorbonne in Paris led her to travel to South America where she first started distillation and Botanical extractions. In the north east of Brazil she created an “open house” laboratory where she started teaching and collaborating with indigenous cultures and university leaders in the field. During her adulthood, she experienced severe acne and only found relief and recovery using botanicals, hydrosols, colloidal minerals and nutrients. This opened her heart to a great passion for organic cosmetology, botanical extraction techniques and foods for beauty.
For the past 15 years, Alice has been teaching adults and children how to reconnect to their body through our heart connection to nature and self-healing power. She is passionate about every gift the earth brings to support optimal well-being, radiant skin, and balance of body and the mind. Some of her specialty domains are the medical and cosmetic uses of bee products, clays and oligo-minerals, homeopathy, cosmeceuticals, essential oils, flower essences, botanical extraction techniques and herbal therapy.

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