WHAT: Make PH Balancing Sunscreening Lotions, Potions and Creams for Burning Man 2010
WHEN: Wednesday, August 18, 9pm onwards SORRY, NO AWAKE KIDS!
WHERE: Anarres Natural Health Clinic, College and Ossington in Toronto
COST: by donation, suggested sliding scale $10-$100, but any amount will be gratefully accepted
TO REGISTER: see below
INFO: Please contact me anarreshealth@gmail.com

Join us in learning to make your own natural, healthy sunscreening products adapted for the radical PH of The Playa, and meet others from the GTA going to Burning Man this year.

This workshop by donation combines my Lotions, Potions and Creams workshop, where we'll make shea butter and cocoa butter lotion, SPF 15, then make Sun Protection Cream with zinc SPF 30. We'll add skin friendly ingredients like citric acid to compensate for the alkaline PH of the Playa. You'll not only learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones, no matter how young, from harmful sun rays, while still making and storing essential vitamine D.

You'll leave with 170ml metal pump bottle of shea lotion, a 170ml pump bottle of cocoa butter lotion and a 120ml jar of sun protection cream - a $38 value!!!

Make Lotions, Potions and Creams

Dread the dry, itchy skin of The Playa? The obnoxious fragrances and unreadable ingredients of moisturizing lotions? Want to moisturize and nourish your skin without feeling like you've been dunked in a tank of lard? Come learn to make your own lotions, for yourself, your family, and as gifts. We'll use simple, natural, vegan ingredients like wax and flower waters. You'll chose enhancing ingredients like essential oils, cocoa butter, shea butter, and calendula oil to meet individual skin needs. You'll preserve with essential oils and grapefruit seed extract instead of formaldehyde (aka DMDM Hydantoin), parabens or other harmful ingredients. Finally, we'll package and label your creations. You'll come away with lotion and creams you've made, and skills that can serve you for a lifetime for a fraction of the cost of a commercial moisturizer!

Stop Sunburn Non Toxically

What's worse? The sun, or the toxins in the sunscreens? It's not an either/or situation. Regular exposure to the sun lets your skin adapt to defend itself against harmful rays, all the while making vitamin D. So tanning is a healthy response, and those who get regular exposure to the sun lower their skin cancer risk. Burning is absolutely not healthy – it clearly increases your risk of deadly skin cancer. So what to do? You'll learn everything you need to know to stay safe and select safe products for you and your loved ones.

RSVP is necessary and space is limited to first come, first served...