Join Rachael Robson from Wharfedale Soaps for a relaxing few hours of Christmas soap making!
You’ll be using clear melt and pour soap (SLS and SLES free) along with a range of essential oils and micas to produce 8 beautiful soaps.
Firstly you’ll create your very own Winter scene in a soap using green and white micas to create soap trees, snow drifts, snowflakes or pretty little stars! These soaps are scented with a blend of peppermint and lemongrass essential oils.
Then we’ll create pretty snowflake soaps, scented with Winter Morning fragrance oil, a comforting Christmassy blend of cinnamon and pine with notes of vanilla, apple and clove. These soaps are coloured with sparkly white and silver micas.
Finally you’ll make your very own candy cane soap! Layers of red and white soap topped with peppermint scented chunks.
At the end of the workshop there will be time to individually gift wrap each soap making them perfect as gifts and even better as a treat for yourself.
Workshop FAQs
Everything you need to know when coming to a workshop at Harewood.
- On arrival, please park in our main visitor car park and make your way, on foot, to the Courtyard entrance.
- A member of the Harewood team will greet you at the Courtyard and show you to the workshop location.
- Please arrive 10 minutes before the workshop start time to allow yourself time to park and make your way to the Courtyard.
- Workshop locations are subject to change.
- Further arrival details will be emailed to all ticket holders 1 day before the workshop.
A 14 day cancellation policy applies to all workshops. As commercial workshops support our charitable activities, and materials and equipment are ordered in advance, we regret that refunds cannot be offered less than two weeks before the workshop date should you wish to cancel your place.
Should Harewood House Trust need to cancel a workshop, your ticket will be refunded in full.
Wharfedale Soaps started on a rainy day back in 2018. It was the summer holidays and to keep her children entertained Rachael decided to make bath bombs with them. From bath bombs it was a natural progression to start creating soap.
Rachael decided to research soapmaking and was shocked to find the number of toxins and chemicals that we used in high-street bought soap. From her own experience she knew that many of the ingredients were not needed and harmful to our skin.
Rachael wanted to create an alternative soap – ones without toxins and would be kinder to skin.
Wharfedale Soaps now makes soaps and moisturiser bars that can be bought across the UK and regularly host soapmaking workshops in the local area.
Winter Soap
Aqua, Glycerin, Sorbitol, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Laurate, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Oleate, Sodium Myristate, Sodium Chloride, Mentha Piperita Oil, Cocos Nucifera (coconut) oil, Glyceryl Laurate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid, Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, Bejewelled Green Mica (Mica, CI 77891, 77288), Arctic White Mica (Mica, CI 77891, Tin Oxide), Cymbopogon Flexuosus Oil, Citral, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Limonene, Geraniol.
Snowflake soap
Aqua, Glycerin, Sorbitol, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Laurate, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Oleate, Sodium Myristate, Sodium Chloride, Parfum – Winter morning fragrance V2 (The Soap Kitchen), Cocos Nucifera (coconut) oil, Glyceryl Laurate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid, Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, Arctic White Mica (Mica, CI 77891, Tin Oxide), Silver Sparks Mica ( Mica, CI 77891, Tin Oxide), Tetrasodium Etidronate, Linalool, Eugenol, Coumarin, Cinnamal.
Candy Cane Soap
Aqua, Glycerin, Sorbitol, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Laurate, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Oleate, Sodium Myristate, Sodium Chloride, Mentha Piperita Oil, Cocos Nucifera (coconut) oil, Glyceryl Laurate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Fiery Red Mica (Mica, CI 77891, 77491), Arctic White Mica (Mica, CI 77891, Tin Oxide), Sodium Citrate, Citric Acid, Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Limonene.
Discover more winter workshops
From willow weaving to creating festive tablescapes, our Christmas workshops invite you to get hands on at Harewood.
Reindeer Willow Weaving Workshop
Monday 7 – Sunday 13 Dec 2026
Seasonal Candle Making Workshops
Saturday 28 Mar – Saturday 28 Nov 2026
Reindeer Willow Weaving Workshop
Monday 7 – Sunday 13 Dec 2026
Seasonal Candle Making Workshops
Saturday 28 Mar – Saturday 28 Nov 2026