Student success stories
Paige Scurfield: Beauty therapist seizes the opportunity to create a green and eco-friendly salon with natural, non-toxic and cruelty-free skincare products
Working out of a beautiful cottage in the idyllic Oxfordshire countryside, Paige Scurfield seems to have found something of a paradise here on earth. Paige is a beauty therapist, providing manicure, pedicure and tanning treatments. But her business Willow Cottage...
A Natural Business Built on Lifelong Learning
As a mom and homesteader living amongst the rivers, forests and mountains of British Columbia in Canada, Diane Evdakimoff has always been drawn to the power of nature to nourish and heal. Her youngest son had asthma and he had to take on lots of different types of...
Katrina Hawes’ Journey to Natural Living
Yoga teacher and holistic health practitioner, Katrina Hawes, describes herself as a wife, a mother, a sister and daughter, a friend and an animal lover. She says she’d rather listen than talk, and walk rather than run. And she has been on a journey towards...
A Business Built on Family and Passion
Ene Adasen is both a mother and a successful natural beauty entrepreneur living in Lagos, Nigeria. For many years Ene had found her sensitive skin didn’t respond very well to chemical-based products, and when she started having children she saw that they too were...
A passion for creating high-performance serums free from harmful chemicals
Serums are undoubtedly the stars of the world of skincare. These are the high value, high-performance products with the hero ingredients that have the greatest impact on your skin. Some serums are designed to target specific areas of the body, like face, eyes, lips or...
Finding your passion and following your heart – no matter the challenges
At different times in our lives, we can all feel that strong desire to make a change. To make a fresh start, turn the page, reinvent ourselves. But when you’re thinking about taking a new path in your life, the first step can be the hardest, mainly because taking your...
Making the Decision to Live a Non-toxic Life
Karen Martin is a graduate of our Certificate in Making Natural Skincare Products and Diploma in Natural Skincare Formulation and her story is sure to strike a chord with many of you who are thinking of making the choice to learn how to create natural skincare for...
Forget Anti-aging, Graduate Farida O’Seery Pioneers Anti-agism Skincare
Farida O’Seery, founder of theBeauvoir 50+ anti-agism natural skincare based in Belgium, learned how to create her own organic and natural skincare products at the School of Natural Skincare. She is a woman on an anti-agism mission who believes passionately that women...
Taking the opportunity to make a positive difference
One thing many of us have learned from this pandemic that has swept the world is never to take our health for granted. For Juliana Ferrarini, that realisation came a few years ago, on Christmas Eve in 2014 when she learned that she suffered from chronic kidney...
More than just a shampoo making class: how our course helped Cortney to launch her all-natural haircare and skincare business
How a course in making natural shampoos and conditioners helped Cortney to launch her own brand. Cortney, founder of Wilder and graduate of our Diploma in Natural Haircare Formulation, and Diploma in Natural Skincare Formulation has created an inspiring beauty brand...