Making Aromatic Winter Magic

Well, the weather outside is frightful, but by my fire, it’s still delightful. So I wondered…

Would you like to join me by the wood stove for a fireside chat about the magical associations of celebrated holiday aromatics?

Let’s get together, sip spiced cider, and cozy up as we explore the magic behind traditional holiday scents and flavors.

We’ll investigate the lore and associations of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice, and cardamom. We’ll talk about the mythology of evergreens and conifers and discover how their mythology informs their energetics. And we’ll make and taste some delicious holiday treats.

Christmas Mulled wine and spices on wooden background.

As always, you’ll come away with some of the foods and blends we make together.

You’ll also receive a full-color workbook with recipes for more than a dozen holiday treats including spiced cider, gløgg (traditional Danish mulled wine), pepparkokkar (traditional Swedish ginger cookies), stovetop potpourri, and more…

Saturday, December 9th, from 2 PM to 6 PM. Use the contact form below to inquire.

Limited to eight participants.

Herbal Finishing Salts

Lemon & Rosemary. Chipotle, Smoked Paprika, and Onion. Fennel, Sage, Garlic, and Onion. Herbes aromatiques… These delicious flavors married in savory salts make for some serious mouth-watering deliciousness–and you can learn to make them all!

Spice up your holiday meals–and gift giving!– and get your herb on in a two-hour workshop on Herbal Finishing Salts.

Join The Untamed Alchemist in the Untamed Workshop on Saturday, December 9th, from 2 to 4 PM to craft four unique herbal finishing salts.

Registration includes on-site workshop participation and takeaways including:

Full-color printed recipe cards for four unique herbal finishing salts
2 oz. jars of each herbal finishing salt to take home
Information booklet with ten additional recipes for entrees, salads, dressings, marinades, and crackers featuring herbal finishing salts

All ingredients, tools, jars, and labels will be provided for you.

Sign up here! Limit ten participants.

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Download the event poster to share with friends: 12-9-2017 Herbal Finishing Salts Workshop – Desk Poster

Countdown to Christmas!

I don’t mean to alarm you, buuuuuuuuuut……. There are only three months until Christmas! I know, whatever, that feels like a lifetime. I thought so, too. Then I realized that means I pretty much only have two months to order supplies and get crackin’ on all the handmade artisan gifts I have in mind for friends and family if I want to ship them at less-than-first-born-child mailing rates….. So, yeah, I put your holiday stocking stuffer classes on the calendar. Long-time favorite holiday workshops like gifts tags and ornaments, fizzy bath bombs, amazing cocoa butter “tub truffles”, and scented aromatherapy tea lights are all on the Untamed Classroom’s calendar for you to discover, make, and share as stocking stuffers, hostess gifts, or “thank you’s” this holiday season–there are even a couple of new workshops to get you busy with your little elves making magic before the holidays.

These holiday stocking stuffer classes always fill up fast so now would be an excellent time to secure your seat at the blending table!

Each class will give you hands-on experience blending essential oils and crafting them into unique gifts–and you keep everything you make! And, as always, our take-aways are always worth more than your registration in the Untamed Classroom. Your registration fee is always less than the value of the materials you will create and receive.

It’s up to you to decide whether or not to share your aromatherapy creations with others as holiday gifts or use them to indulge yourself in aromatic delight.

Each class features a variety of essential oils and custom blends. Individual oils included are uniquely relevant to the season (think cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and peppermint) while others are beloved, premium essential oils that are sure to delight any recipient (think rose, orange blossom, jasmine, and sandalwood to name but a few…)

Register early to secure your spot in all four workshops and make yours an artisan, handmade holiday! I’ll be giving a special discount to folks who enroll in all of the holiday stocking stuffer courses, too….

AROMATHERAPY TUB TRUFFLES/BATH MELTS

Bath melts, also known as bath candy or “tub truffles”, are unbelievably delicious treats for your body! The organic base butters and oils hydrate and coat your skin leaving you covered in delicious scents. We’ll be using pure cocoa butter for our tub truffles so they begin with a yummy chocolate fragrance to boot! Add Sandalwood & Rose, Vanilla & Lavender, Orange Blossom & Sweet Orange, or Frankincense & Myrrh essential oils to create exquisite “candies” that melt when you add them to your hot bath water!

AROMATHERAPY GIFT TAGS, ORNAMENTS, & GARLANDS

Handmade gift tags are a special touch at the holidays–they become even more lovely when coupled with the fragrance of essential oils… You can choose to make scented felt items that can be attached to gifts as specialty tags, hung individually as ornaments, or strung together in a series to make a fragrant garland for your hearth or tree.

AROMATHERAPY BATH BOMBS

Fabulous fizzy bath bombs are incredibly fun and easy to make! Bath bombs are pure delight and all natural Just drop one in the tub and watch it fizz and foam as it releases its skin-nourishing and aromatic ingredients. Imagine soaking the with precious Sandalwood & Rose, delicious Vanilla & Lavender, uplifting Sweet Orange & Lime, or exotic Jasmine & Ylang Ylang. Keep them as a treat for you or stuff them into stockings for favorite friends and family. Wonderful as hostess gifts!

AROMATHERAPY TEA LIGHTS

Once you have experienced the unparalleled aroma of a pure beeswax candle with essential oils you will never spend your money on another paraffin or soy candle again. Genuine beeswax candles have a faint, sweet aroma of honey; they are also much harder (and burn much longer) than those made of other waxes. Add aromatic essential oils

The holidays means there will be hot mulled cider and holiday treats for participants, too! Sign up today–hope to see you soon in the Untamed Classroom!

Essential Oils for Green Cleaning

Tools For Cleaning Windows Before I met my husband, I lived in a charming two-story house in a mountain valley just outside of Glorieta, New Mexico. In spite of the fact that I had a lovely home, one of my closest neighbors always insisted that I come to her house when we visited because she suffered from environmental allergies — she couldn’t physically handle being in most people’s homes because of the various chemicals that were present there. When her shower “went out” I offered to let her use mine, which she reluctantly did. After a few days, she commented that mine was the first bathroom that was both clean and not toxic to her. The reason? I used essential oils and basic, natural ingredients in all of my cleaning supplies.

Most commercially available cleaning products contain harsh chemicals — many of them are actually toxic. While many products tout their “lemon and pine” scents, their fragrance is most often chemically derived. Considering these same products are also typically exorbitantly priced, I wonder why more people don’t embrace make-it-yourself cleaning products. The reason is most likely they simply don’t know how.

Cleaning Supplies The fact is you only need a handful of supplies to begin making your own cleaning products: castile soap, borax, vinegar, baking soda, salt…. And while there are a host of essential oils with therapeutic properties that line up with green cleaning (antimicrobial, antibacterial, antiviral, anti fungal), you can achieve amazing results with only six essential oils to get started: Lemon, Peppermint, White Pine, Tea Tree, Eucalyptus, and Lavender are all you need!

To get you started on your way to creating amazing recipes like cutting board disinfectant, kitchen sponge spray, mold and mildew spray, wood polish, surface cleaner, tub scrub, and more, the Untamed Classroom offers a Squeaky Green! workshop that will arm you with a starter kit including 5 ml of each of the powerhouse cleaning oils listed above as well as a notebook of foundational recipes. Armed with the therapeutic properties of each of the essential oils and the ingredients and combinations necessary to leverage them, you’ll be a green cleaning machine in no time!

Our next Squeaky Green! workshop is set for November 15th, 2014 — won’t you join us?! Register now!

Transforming the Core: About the Changes Happening in the Untamed Classroom

Moving. Changing. Growing. For you.

While the web presence and class schedule for the Untamed Classroom have been oh-so-quiet, there has been a LOT of noise and change happening in the background. (Think moving-truck engines, circular saws cutting floor boards, lawn mowers, and Johnny Cash on the radio while we enthusiastically roll paint on walls….)

If you’ve been keeping up with Untamed Alchemy on Facebook or the Untamed Alchemist’s blog, you already know that we have moved our selves, critters, and business to the Idaho panhandle in the Pacific Northwest. We chose our new property in no small part because it features amazing opportunities to create an exceptional experience for future students of the Untamed Classroom.

In addition to acreage that will allow students to see, touch, smell, taste, and wildcraft medicinal herbs in our garden, nursery, pasture, and greenhouse, our new home also has an enormous finished barn. Since arriving in Idaho, we’ve been working at transforming the 900 square foot loft to a premium, finished classroom: fresh paint, new floors, better audio and visual equipment, and more room for participants to learn, engage, and blend.

So what’s in it for you, workshop participants and enthusiasts?

A super-premium classroom that facilitates learning and hands-on experience.
Many more classes and more room in each class.
A broader range of supplies. (Your new classroom is an extension of my blending studio so every single thing I work with will be RIGHT there.)
Improved audio and visual equipment to incorporate new teaching tools.
Access to my personal library of aromatherapy, herbal, and magical reference books.
Lower or no cancellation fees.
FREE videos on how to create your own aromatherapy products for balance and wellness in your body, life, and home.

So, while you may not have heard a peep from us in a while, we’ll shortly be singing from the top of the barn with a host of new classes, including:

Aromatherapy for Green Cleaning (Wood Polish, Counter Spray, Shower & Tub Scrub)
Making Natural Party Favors
Making Your Own Natural Outdoor Survival Kit (Sunscreen, Bug Repellent, Itch Sticks, and more…)
Aromatherapy for Massage Therapists (Blended Oils, Pain Salve, Muscle Relief Blends)
Introduction to Using Therapeutic Essential Oils (featuring 25 essential oils for wellness)
Create Your Own Personal Perfume (aligning archetypes and energetics to create an empowering, personal, and natural fragrance)

STAY TUNED!

Blessings,

Kristina, the Untamed Alchemist

Make Your Own Aromatherapy Stocking Stuffers for the Holidays!

By now, you are already being bombarded with marketing materials from company’s hoping you’ll spend your hard-earned money on overly-processed products as gifts for your friends and family this holiday season. The fact is, you can easily make premium gifts for your loved ones!

We have four classes set up to give you plenty of time to learn to make four unique aromatherapy holiday gifts/stocking stuffers before the holidays. Your class registration includes all of the supplies you’ll need to create your first batch of items in class–as well as the recipe, a supply list, and resource list you’d need to create still more gifts after the class is over!

Classes are currently available to teach you to make your own aromatherapy tea lights, gift tags/ornaments, bath “candy”, and bath bombs; all are scheduled for December 7th and 8th. Check out our full event list for complete details on each class.

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