Holistic Winter Skin Care

In this lecture, you'll join ACHS faculty Amanda Lattin BA, MAT, Dip. Aroma., MH, RA for an inspiring exploration of approaches for supporting your skin in the winter. 
You’ll learn:
The herbs, essential oils, base oils, and foods that support optimal winter skin care How to use these products in recipes for winter skin care tools such as: facial steams, herbal baths, facial cleansing oils, body scrubs, and more

Amanda Lattin has had a passion for growing and using nutritional and medicinal plants since she planted her first garden at age six. She followed this passion and inquiry while finishing her B.A. in Chemistry at Huntingdon College, where she performed research on Ionic Liquids, the Study of Chinese Culture through Chemical Analysis, and Transitional Metal Oxides in Tattoo Pigments. She also traveled to China with Huntingdon College to share water quality research after the opening of the Three Gorges Dam. Amanda continued her education by completing her Master’s of Teaching with a concentration in Chemistry at Lewis and Clark College. There her thesis designed curriculum about the Geochemistry of the Oregon John Day Region. After teaching chemistry at West Linn High School, Amanda returned to her interest in medicinal plants and began studying essential oils with Dr. Kurt Schnaubelt at the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy. She continued her studies by completing her Diploma in Aromatherapy and Diploma in Herbal Studies at ACHS. Amanda also trained for a year in Applied Kinesiology with Dr. Robert Ciprian, DC, D.I.B.A.K. Amanda has taught the chemistry of essential oils at the College of Botanical Healing Arts in Santa Cruz as well as at many workshops and seminars. She has written articles on aromatherapy and served as a subject consultant for various schools. She has run her aromatherapy and herbal consulting practice in Portland, Oregon since 2008. Amanda became an Aromatherapy Registration Council (ARC) Registered Aromatherapist (RA) in April 2013 and teaches a range of aromatherapy and wellness courses at ACHS.  
 


Continuing education is vital for all professionals to stay up-to-date with industry advances. In addition, most professional organizations—from the Florida Board of Health to the Oregon Board of Naturopathic Examiners—require continuing education (CE) hours to ensure regulatory compliance, educational rigor, and the highest standards of practice. 
 
ACHS offers a wide range of online CE opportunities in integrative medicine and holistic health to help meet your CE requirements and thirst for learning! For a list of current continuing education provider approvals, click here. 
 
As an accredited college, many organizations accept ACHS CEs. Please check whether specific approval is required with your professional body. If you are interested in having your professional organization approve ACHS CEs, please contact ACHS CSO Erika Yigzaw at [email protected]
 


 
• Register and pay the $25 CE processing fee. 
• Watch the video (approximately 100 minutes). 
• Take the short CE multiple choice question assessment and successfully achieve a score of 80% or higher (you'll have two attempts). This demonstrates you have mastered the course learning outcomes above. 
• Your CE certificate of completion is emailed as soon as you successfully complete the assessment.

To get started, click the blue "Start" button up top.