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Ten courses that start with safety

A self-paced online academy for Island Enchantments: ten courses in three tracks plus a business course, from cold process soap to selling handmade cosmetics in Canada. I wrote the courses and built the platform on their Shopify store.

Client: Island Enchantments
Year: 2026
Type: Online courses
Live: islandenchantments.com/pages/academy ↗

The Island Enchantments Academy home page: Learn the craft behind the enchantment.

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The brief

Island Enchantments wanted to teach their craft online to adults, from hobbyists to small-business makers, at the learner's own pace.

The courses had to be safe, honest about the rules in Canada, and worth paying for, with a certificate at the end. And they had to run on the store the business already uses, not on a separate course platform.

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The approach

Safety is never behind a paywall
In every making course the safety module is free to read, with no purchase and no account. In the soap courses, the safety quiz must be passed at 100% before the later modules open.
Short, focused modules
Each module is one lesson with worked examples, a quiz and a printable PDF copy.
Honest about rules and sources
Sources are cited in every module, and rules content is dated "as read on" the day it was checked.
Try before you buy
Every course opens with free modules, so a learner can decide whether the rest is for them.
Tools and teaching together
The Cold Process course includes a module on using the Island Enchantments Soap Calculator.
On the store they already run
The Academy lives on the Island Enchantments Shopify store, alongside the products it teaches people to make.

The Cold Process Soapmaking course page: about 40 hours, 20 modules in 5 sections, a 60-question final exam, and enrolment options. — Every course page sets out the length, the outline, how you're assessed and what the certificate does and doesn't mean.

The Cold Process Soapmaking course page on a phone.

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What I built

Ten courses: Cold Process, Hot Process and Liquid Soapmaking; Bath Bombs and Shower Steamers; Lotions and Creams, Facial Oils and Oil Serums, Roll-ons and Essential-Oil Blends, Lip Balms & Body Butters; and Selling Handmade Cosmetics in Canada
The course writing: lessons, worked examples, quizzes, section tests, final exams and assignments
The platform on the Island Enchantments Shopify store: course pages, modules, free previews and enrolment
Track bundles and an all-access option alongside single courses
A Certificate of Completion from Island Enchantments, each with its own ID
Printable PDF copies of every module

Example depth

Cold Process Soapmaking

Length: about 40 hours
Modules: 20 in 5 sections
Module quizzes: 80% to pass, from a bank of 25
Safety quiz: 100% to continue
Final exam: 60 questions, 2 hours
Assignments: 3 practical worksheets

The course outline: 20 modules in 5 sections, with the four free Foundations modules and the 100% safety quiz marked. — The outline marks the free modules and the safety quiz that unlocks the rest.

How you're assessed: 80% pass mark for module quizzes, 100% for the safety quiz, 5 section tests, a 60-question final exam and 3 assignments. — Assessment, in numbers.

Learning outcomes for the Cold Process course, from describing saponification to recognising trace. — Learning outcomes written as things you'll be able to do.

The Academy course list, grouped into the Soap Maker, Bath Treats and Skincare tracks, with founding prices and free modules shown for each course. — Three tracks and a business course, each course showing which modules are free.

How it works: start free, short modules, quizzes and a final exam, and a certificate. — How it works, in four short steps.

The certificates section, with a sample Certificate of Completion from Island Enchantments. — The certificate says plainly what it recognises, and nothing more.