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Herbal Salves - How To create DIY Salves, Creams & Balms (Udemy.com)

Learn everything you need to make and even sell your own natural herbal salves, creams, ointments and balms

Created by: Craig Roberts

Last updated January 2022

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What you will learn

  • How to begin making Salves with simple ingredients and equiptment
  • How to create your own Lip Balms for dry and chapped lips
  • All about Essential oils and their miraculous healing properties
  • How to make a side hustle selling salves online or locally
  • How to create salves to aid or heal different skin conditions such as eczema or psoriasis
  • How you can create your own, natural and healthy version of almost any store bought cream or lotion

How it compares

Against the other 418 rated Udemy courses in Lifestyle on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 32% of them
  • Reviews79#349 of 419 by number of reviews
  • Length1.2 hoursshorter than 87% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2022earlier than 60% of them

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Course Description

This in-depth course will teach you everything from creating a base salve or cream, to learning about the different oils, butters, waxes and their properties. You'll also learn all about different essential oils and their incredible healing abilities. I'll also guide you step by step with live demonstrations on how to make salves and lip balms from start to finish.

I have been successfully formulating and creating salves, lip balms and ointments for many years now and I've loved every minute of it, I have the knowledge, should any skin condition arise, that I can create a purpose made salve or balm to heal it! I have also sold these salves with amazing reviews and can teach you how to do the same!

Without knowing or even thinking about it, you probably have a handful of creams and ointments in your medicine cabinet right now, most are typically full of petroleum based chemicals and other strange ingredients that you CAN'T EVEN PRONOUNCE and often have a big list of side effects that may cause “allergic reaction, hives, difficult breathing, swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.”

With the knowledge you'll learn in this course, you can go back to basics and make your own DIY natural and healthy salves, which are great for skin conditions, cuts and burns and also make amazing gifts! Best of all you: DON'T need any fancy equipment or a lab and you can make salves with ingredients you may already have or that are cheap and affordable and with equipment you definitely already have!

Making your own salves, creams and lotions is easy and doesn't need to be intimidating, I'll share my knowledge starting from the history of salves and teach you everything from the successful creation of salves and even go onto teach you how to create a business selling salves, balms and ointments just as I have.

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Instructor Details

Craig Roberts

Craig Roberts has been creating, selling and even teaching others to make salves, creams and ointments for several years now. He has owned his own natural beauty company where he formulated and sold product lines to many happy customers.

In addition, he is a successful entrepreneur having stated and run several other businesses.

He is a passionate teacher who enjoys teaching on a wide variety of topics and sharing his knowledge with the world.

Craig's interest in natural herbalism began by realizing he could formulate a natural lip balm for his wife and realized he could create more, while struggling with his own skin and psoriasis issues. Frustrated by the lack of assistance from traditional medicine he turned to studying plants and nature to find a solution for his skin issues. After an extensive amount of research he created a natural plant based formula and routine that cleared and restored the vitality to his skin. Hence embarking him on a life-long love of helping others to learn how to use nature to nourish their skin.

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Reviews

4.5

79 ratings on Udemy

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By Doreen Green on 7/28/2025

Interesting, Clear & concise. I enjoyed this. I thought the videos could have been expanded a little more & some of the written detail also. However good basic information helping us all getting started on making our own salves!

By Mirjana Kolevska on 7/24/2025

Interesting information, a little bit basic, but useful. Also, it could be better when describing the ingredients, to be included on the screen pictures of the described oils and waxes, also of the ready products.

By Christie-Ann Lavans on 2/7/2024

It was a awesome and very informative course, i would have liked a bit more information about the exact heat at melting point, adding of essentials oils, etc, but overall, very informative and well presented - thank you

By Drew Anderson on 12/10/2023

Craig does a great job with his instruction on making salves. The program is focused, and factual. It is organized and fast paced without a bunch of fluff. You might want to review each lesson as the necessary details come at you pretty quick. The demonstrated methods shown in making his recipes for various purposes are simple and can be done with everyday pots and pans in small quantities. Thanks Craig! Much appreciated!

By Vivian Mays on 9/6/2023

This course was extremely helpful and interesting. I learn so much about making salves, I am going to try this weekend, I can not wait

By Charolette Russell on 7/8/2023

This is definitely the material I expected from the description. I would like less speed-talking and more expression in the lessons. Some visual aids wouldn't be amiss, either.

By Christine Fick on 4/1/2022

Thank you Craig for sharing your knowledge and making the whole course available on Pdf or txt files for those who cannot watch it on line, it is very thoughtful of you. We would have loved to see the finished products that you sell - what does the final packaging look like? is it heat shrinked or boxed? etc. maybe add a lesson module for future learners to include it. Maybe you should invest in a wax pot for your business, the waxpot is a lot less messier than the double boiler method plus the wax pellets melt a lot easier as the pot heats up to the correct temperature for waxes. Just a suggestion to make your life easier. I would definitely recommend this course for people who are considering making salves but are not sure about the skill set needed and with what products to start off. Greetings Christine (South Africa)

By Megan White on 3/2/2022

I enjoyed the course and loved the tips and information Craig supplied. However I did find the presentation very basic as in backdrops and props, and the pdfs were very basically presented.

By Tatia Brunings on 9/15/2021

The course was easy to follow and very informative! Craig provided great tips and extra information that I thought was very useful to know when making salves! Loved this course!

By Gabrielle L Saint-Dic on 8/13/2021

Because I was looking forward to learn how to mace facial acne cream, body cream and hair products.

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Overall Score : 90 / 100