Artisan Soap Making Class
Sat, Oct 18
|Douglas Smith Soap Company
Join owners Kevin and Michael Douglas-Smith to explore the science and art of handcrafted soap making! In this class, you will make four bars of your own soap and receive an additional bar from our demonstration! Return the next day to cut and take it home, or have it cut and shipped it to you.
Time & Location
Oct 18, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CDT
Douglas Smith Soap Company, 208 N LBJ Dr, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
Guests
About the event
In this Artisan Soap Making Class, owners Kevin and Michael Douglas-Smith will explain and demonstrate the basic chemistry, safety precautions and materials used when making cold process soap from scratch. You will then create and pour (under a controlled environment) cold-process soap batter, customize it with natural colorants and decorate it with special textures. You will be working with a mixture of pure olive oil, sustainable palm and coconut oil. You will also choose your scent and colorant (if you desire one) from what we have available.
Handcrafted soap has to harden for 24 hours; so before you take them home, you can either come back in 1-2 days to slice your 4 bars of soap or we can slice your soap for you to pick up. We can also slice your soap and ship them to you. Price of the class does not include shipping.
In this class you will be…