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Welcome to Formula Botanica
We are the leading online teaching institution for organic formulation and indie beauty entrepreneurship and we are on a mission to teach the world to formulate. We empower our students with the skills to change their lives through organic skincare and haircare. Formulating organic cosmetics with plants, flowers and herbs is an amazing, empowering skill that anyone can learn. Let us teach you how to become a formulator.
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Learn to Formulate At Home
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Empower yourself by becoming a professional organic skincare formulator and create beautiful botanical lotions, serums and balms to use yourself or to sell. Become part of the global green beauty movement, embracing naturals, wellness and sustainability. Enrol with Formula Botanica to receive an online education in organic skincare and haircare formulation.
We Teach the Complete Package
So you can confidently start your own organic skincare brand anywhere in the world.
Our graduates go the distance
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Our thousands of graduates lead the global green beauty movement. Their customers love their beautiful botanical serums, balms, toners, cleansers and lotions. You too can create an indie beauty business that impacts on the world around you, creates a life you love and teaches people about the benefits of natural ingredients.
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The Global Organic Beauty Industry will be worth $54bn by 2027.
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Sign up for our free e-courseOur Latest Content
How to make a natural & organic hair conditioner
Follow Formula Botanica’s framework for layering and structuring an organic and natural hair conditioner, looking at the conditioning base, the active ingredients and the functional ingredients of your formulation.
From kitchen to factory: How to scale your beauty brand with a contract manufacturer
If you’ve ever thought about scaling your indie beauty brand but don’t know where to start, this post is for you. Like many of our Formula Botanica graduates, you might have reached a stage where small-batch production just isn’t sustainable anymore. And maybe, like them, you love formulating, but can’t realistically keep making everything yourself. That’s when it’s time to […]
Podcast 274: The beauty industry’s obsession with exotic ingredients is wearing thin
What if the next big breakthrough in beauty wasn’t hidden deep in a jungle, but growing in your own back garden? In this episode of Green Beauty Conversations, Formula Botanica CEO Lorraine Dallmeier asks whether the industry’s obsession with exotic ingredients is no longer serving us – or our planet. Following last week’s interview with Allison Taylor of Le Prunier […]
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