Looking for a fun, mindful, and truly unforgettable creative experience in London? Red Glasses Workshops — sister company to Tufting London — is proud to host the UK's first ever fruit-shaped soap making workshop.

Craft your own beautiful, botanical soaps from scratch and take home something extraordinary. Here is everything you need to know.

A Workshop Unlike Anything Else in London

London is one of the world's great cities for creative experiences. From pottery studios and life drawing classes to candle making and tufting workshops, the capital offers an extraordinary range of hands-on, expert-led craft activities for curious makers of every level and background.

But there is one workshop in London that stands apart from all of them. One that is genuinely, categorically unlike anything else available in the city — or indeed anywhere else in the United Kingdom. A workshop so original, so beautiful, and so joyful that it has already earned a devoted following amongst London's creative community.

Welcome to the Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop at Red Glasses Workshops — the UK's first and only fruit-shaped soap making workshop, hosted in the atmospheric surroundings of Arch 61, New Covent Garden Market, London.

What Is the Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop?

The Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop is an immersive, expert-guided creative experience in which participants craft their own stunningly beautiful, botanically inspired fruit-shaped soaps entirely from scratch — blending natural fragrances, colours, and botanicals to create handmade soaps that are as extraordinary to look at as they are to use.

Over the course of a relaxed, welcoming two-hour session, guided by our expert makers, you will design and produce custom soaps that are entirely your own creation. Each soap can be personalised with a name — making it one of the most thoughtful, most original, and most genuinely beautiful handmade gift ideas available anywhere in London.

Every finished soap weighs approximately 240 grams including its rope — a beautifully
substantial, genuinely luxurious handmade creation that you take home at the end of the session, ready to use, to display, or to give as a gift that will genuinely surprise and delight.

Workshop Details at a Glance

■ Location: Red Glasses Workshops, Arch 61, New Covent Garden Market, London SW8 5PP — minutes from Battersea Power Station (15-18 minutes) and Nine Elms Station (3 minutes), Northern Line.

■ Dates: Every first and third Saturday of the month — a regular, accessible schedule that makes planning easy, whether you are booking weeks ahead or looking for something to do this weekend.

■ Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm — a perfect afternoon activity.

Please note that bookings require a minimum of two people. For groups larger than two, please contact us directly at hello@tuftinglondon.com to check availability and arrange your booking.

What You Will Experience

Every aspect of the Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop has been designed to deliver a creative experience that is as enjoyable, as educational, and as personally meaningful as possible.

Expert Guidance From Start to Finish

Our expert makers guide you through every step of the soap-making process — from understanding the properties of the ingredients and botanicals, through the blending of fragrances and colours, to the shaping, naming, and finishing of your completed soaps. No experience is needed, and no question is too basic. Our instructors are passionate about the craft and about ensuring that every participant leaves with something they are genuinely proud of.

Personalised Fragrance, Colour, and Botanical Blending

One of the most delightful aspects of the workshop is the degree of personalisation available. You choose your fragrances — selecting from a curated palette of essential oils and botanical scents to create a combination that is entirely your own. You choose your colours, your botanical inclusions, and the name that will be personalised onto your soap.
The result is not just a beautiful object — it is a completely personal one. A soap that smells of the fragrances you love, in the colours that speak to you, bearing a name that is meaningful to you or to the person you are making it for. No two soaps made at Red Glasses Workshops are ever identical.

A Relaxed and Welcoming Environment

The Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop takes place in the characterful, atmospheric surroundings of our railway arch studio — a warm, beautifully appointed creative space that is designed to feel

welcoming from the moment you arrive. The pace is relaxed and unhurried. The atmosphere is convivial and inspiring. And the company — fellow makers who are discovering the same new experience alongside you — adds a social dimension that elevates the whole occasion.

Who Is the Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop For?

Creative Souls Looking for Something New in London

If you have done the pottery class, attended the candle making workshop, and are looking for the next truly original creative experience London has to offer — this is it. The Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop is genuinely unlike anything else in the city, and it delivers the combination of creative engagement, tactile satisfaction, and beautiful results that distinguishes the very best London workshop experiences.

Tourists and Visitors Seeking an Authentic London Experience

For visitors to London looking for something beyond the tourist trail — an experience that is genuinely local, genuinely creative, and genuinely memorable — the Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop offers something that no museum or landmark can: the chance to make something beautiful with your own hands and take it home as the most original London souvenir imaginable.

The Perfect Hen Party, Birthday, or Celebration Activity

The workshop makes an extraordinary celebration activity for hen parties, birthday groups, baby showers, and any occasion that calls for something genuinely memorable.

The combination of creativity, personalisation, and the beautiful finished soaps — which can be personalised with the names of everyone in the group — creates a party experience and a set of keepsakes that are truly one of a kind.

Couples, Friends, and Solo Makers

The workshop is designed to welcome people in any configuration — couples looking for a creative date afternoon, friends seeking a mindful and joyful activity together, and solo makers who simply want to try something completely new in a warm and welcoming environment.

Anyone Looking for a Mindful Escape From Busy London Life

In the middle of one of the world's busiest and most demanding cities, the Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop offers two hours of genuine, unhurried, screen-free creative focus. The process of blending fragrances and crafting soaps by hand is inherently meditative — the kind of absorbed, intentional making that psychologists associate with flow states and the most restorative forms of active rest.

The Most Beautiful Gift Experience in London

Looking for a gift that goes beyond the predictable? The Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop is one of the most original, most personal, and most genuinely delightful gift experiences available in London — for birthdays, anniversaries, hen parties, team-building days, or simply as a thoughtful surprise for someone who deserves something truly special. The soaps themselves — personalised with a name, blended to a chosen fragrance, and crafted by the recipient's own hands — are amongst the most personal handmade gifts imaginable. They are not just beautiful objects. They are experiences, preserved in botanical form. And they are available exclusively at Red Glasses Workshops — the only place in the United Kingdom where you can make them.

About Red Glasses Workshops

Red Glasses Workshops is the sister company to Tufting London — the UK's first and original professional tufting studio with over 1,400 five-star Google reviews. Located at Arch 61, New Covent Garden Market, London SW8 5PP — minutes from Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms Station — Red Glasses Workshops is London's most exciting new creative hub, offering up to eighteen different hands-on workshops across the year.
From silver ring making and candle painting to aromatherapy perfume making and pottery painting, Red Glasses Workshops brings together a vibrant community of expert makers and curious beginners in one of London's most characterful and atmospheric creative spaces.

The Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop is our most celebrated and most original offering — a genuinely one-of-a-kind experience that reflects everything Red Glasses Workshops stands for: creativity, community, quality, and the profound joy of making something beautiful by hand.

■ Red Glasses Workshops — Arch 61, New Covent Garden Market, London SW8 5PP
■ Every first and third Saturday of the month | ■ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
■ £80 for two people | Minimum booking: 2 people
✉■ hello@tuftinglondon.com — for group bookings and enquiries
■ @redglasses_workshop on Instagram

Red Glasses Workshops — Sister Company to Tufting London.
The UK's First Fruit-Shaped Soap Making Workshop. London SW8 5PP.

Tufting London — The UK's First Professional Tufting Studio. Over 1,400 Five-Star Google Reviews.