Non-Toxic By Design — A Botanical Skincare Formulation Course
What if the next product you reached for was one you made yourself with ingredients you chose, sourced, and trusted completely?
That is exactly what this course makes possible.
Non-Toxic By Design: Botanical Skincare Formulation is a self-paced online course built from thirty years of real formulating experience. Not theory. Not recipes assembled from the internet. Thirty years of trial and error, clinical knowledge, and an uncompromising commitment to organic ingredients — distilled into sixteen modules you can work through entirely on your own schedule.
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR
This course was built for three kinds of people:
→ The conscious consumer who wants to truly understand what's in their skincare products and stop being misled by labels.
→ The home formulator who wants to make safe, effective products for themselves, their family, or their herbal practice.
→ The aspiring maker who wants to eventually share or sell what they create — and wants to do it with real knowledge behind every formula.
You don't need a science background. You don't need a professional lab. You need curiosity, a willingness to learn, and someone who will tell you the truth.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN 16 MODULES
✔ How to read and truly understand an ingredient label
✔ The chemistry of skin — what it actually needs and why
✔ Oils, butters, waxes, and emulsifiers — what they do and how to choose them
✔ Anhydrous formulas: balms, salves, and body butters
✔ Emulsions: the science of combining water and oil, demystified
✔ Preservation — what works, what doesn't, and why it matters
✔ Botanicals, extracts, and actives — how to work with them safely
✔ Fragrance and essential oils — the difference, the risks, and the rewards
✔ pH, testing, and stability — how to know your formula will hold
✔ Color cosmetics — a world of its own
✔ What it looks like to share or sell what you make
WHAT'S INCLUDED
✓ 16 complete course modules
✓ Comprehensive course handbook
✓ Formula workbook — including the Moisturizing Body Buff formula (the one our customers have asked about for years)
✓ Supplier resource guide
✓ Certificate of completion
✓ Lifetime access — return to the material whenever you like
✓ Direct email access to Sally B — I read every message personally
WHY THIS COURSE IS DIFFERENT
Most formulation courses teach you the conventional way and mention organic as an option. I teach the opposite. The highest concentration of certified organic ingredients isn't a nice-to-have in my world — it is the standard everything is measured against.
I also spent ten years working alongside a dermatologist. I understand skin clinically as well as creatively. That combination is rare, and it runs through every module of this course.
I didn't learn any of this in a classroom. I taught myself from scratch, starting in 1990 after a cancer diagnosis changed the way I thought about everything I put on my body. I've been formulating, refining, and sharing this knowledge ever since.
This course is what I wish had existed when I was starting out.
