Essential Oils
Deana Kassim
27/01/2024
05/07/2026
Welcome to Purodem®
Online training in product formulation — for skincare brand-builders, complementary therapists, and anyone who wants to learn this from the ground up.
Purodem is, at heart, a school of formulation. Everything taught here comes back to one skill: taking plant-based ingredients and bringing them together into something safe, stable, and genuinely useful.
That skill leads in two directions. Some students are here for cosmetic formulation — learning to create skincare for themselves, for clients, or for a brand they’re building. Others are here for therapeutic work — using essential oils, carrier oils, and plant materials to support a practice in aromatherapy or complementary health. The underlying craft is the same, which is why both live comfortably under one roof.
Whichever direction you’re heading, the teaching is built from the ground up — ingredient by ingredient, principle by principle — so the why always comes alongside the how.
Purodem offers two diploma programmes — each one a full course in its own right, and a natural starting point depending on where your interest lies.
Learn to create skincare that is safe, stable, and effective — and to understand the choices behind every formulation you make.
This is a genuinely beginner-friendly diploma that takes you from first principles through to confident, independent formulation. You’ll work across the core cosmetic systems — emulsions, anhydrous formulations, gels, and surfactant-based products — building real technical skill in ingredient function, formulation structure, good manufacturing practice, and systematic product development.
It suits anyone formulating for themselves, developing a product range, or building a skincare brand on solid ground.
At a glance:
An advanced diploma in bespoke essential oil blend design, product formulation, and therapeutic application.
PEOT is designed for practitioners who want to take their work with essential oils deeper — into case-based, application-led practice with real therapeutic intent. It develops a working knowledge of essential oils, carrier oils, formulation principles, and therapeutic reasoning, all grounded in professional practice.
At a glance:
We are currently working on something new: a qualification in Integrative Therapeutic Formulation [ITF] — bringing essential oils, vegetable oils, hydrolats, and plant actives together into one connected approach to therapeutic formulation.
It’s designed for therapeutic practitioners who want to deepen their work with plant materials, and for anyone curious about where therapeutic formulation can evolve when given space to grow.
The full Integrative Therapeutic Formulation programme will be shared closer to launch. If you’d like to stay updated, you’re warmly invited to join the list to register your interest.
Every Purodem programme is built around the same idea: that you learn formulation best when the teaching is structured, when there’s someone to ask, and when what you make actually has to work.
In practice, that means:
Our students come from all kinds of backgrounds — complementary therapists, nurses and healthcare professionals, skincare formulators, and people who simply wanted to take their interest further.
The Journal is where we think out loud about formulation: the materials, the methods, and the reasoning behind a product that is safe, stable, and genuinely useful. Articles and references for practitioners, students, and formulators who want to understand why, not just how.
