Aromatherapy Workshop for Beginners

Learn how to make essential oil blends for home and work with our personal care courses in Sydney!

In this introductory course, you’ll explore how essential oils affect your body and mind. Mastering blending techniques will provide you with the groundwork to craft your own products. For the practical part of this course, you’ll learn to make your own safe, aromatic, plant-based home products using essential oils.

This course is led by an experienced professional aromatherapist. It aims to provide you with techniques for making aromatic products using natural, plant-based ingredients like essential oils. You will explore how aromatherapy can impact your physical and mental well-being, including how essential oils are used to treat headaches, anxiety, muscular pain, boost energy levels, and more.

This aromatherapy course will cover common application methods and teach you how to mix and blend your products. During this hands-on class, you will create four individual blends to take home:

• Massage moisturising body oil
• Facial oil
• One-room spray or facial toner
• One aromatic roll-on for stress/ meditation/ muscular pain

Learning outcomes

By the end of this Aromatherapy Course, you should be able to:

• How to mix your essential oil blend for products
•  How to purchase aromatherapy  products and how to read labels
•  Understand common applications & how to use them
•  Understanding the use of essential oils and their claimed health benefits for well-being

Course content

What will be covered in this Aromatherapy Course?

• Mixing and blending essential oils
• How to use safe quantities in products
• How the body and mind absorb essential oils and what this means for our well-being
• How to use aromatic products to benefit yourself and others

Intended audience

Who is this Aromatherapy Course for?

This course is for everyone no experience is required. 

Course venue

Rozelle Campus

2A Gordon Street, Rozelle NSW 2039 (corner of Gordon St & Victoria Rd on the grounds of St. Joseph's Church)

Course materials

Materials provided

• A range of essential and carrier oils for your blends
• All packaging
• Beginners Aromatherapy Course Handouts with a list of common essential oils and their health benefits and risks, formulas for different application methods, and recipes to try at home

Please note: If you have a particular essential oil you wish to use, please bring it along. Our tutor will bring a selection of essential oils to work with but is aware that there are hundreds and cannot provide for every preference.

What to bring to class

• A bag to transport your products home
• Your lunch. You may bring your lunch and keep it cool in our refrigerator or purchase it close by.

Additional information

Please note the following:

Accessibility: There is no level of access to the room for this class. Access is via approximately 20 steps.

Allergy Disclaimer: The tutor provides all products supplied for use in this course. Essential oils can cause skin irritation in some cases. It is advised that sensitive individuals check reactivity by doing a skin patch test first. Essential oils must not be applied to the eyes. Essential oils are not to be applied in concentrated doses unless under the supervision of a trained health professional.

Sydney Community College is an educational organisation dedicated to the provision of quality adult education. Classes are intended to develop skills and knowledge. Classes are not intended as individual therapeutic solutions. In health-related matters, guidance from a suitably qualified health professional is recommended.