Leelanau & Lye Studio Candles & soap · Traverse City, MI
(555) 014-2290 Book a time
Candle & cold-process soap workshops · Traverse City, Michigan

Pour a candle.
Cut your own soap.

Leelanau & Lye Studio is a small candle and soap studio in Traverse City. Book a bench, work with wax or a cold-process loaf, and take home something you made yourself.

Book a time Call (555) 014-2290

Workshops and private parties across Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Benzie & Antrim counties — Traverse City, Suttons Bay and Frankfort.

Workshops & private parties

Four ways to take the bench.

Every workshop runs at the bench with the wax, oils and tools set out. Candles go home the same day; cold-process bars cure on the rack and are collected once they are ready.

Candle workshop

Pour-your-own candle workshop

Wax, wick and vessel waiting at the bench. You pour your own candle and take it home the same day.

$45 Book a time →
Soap workshop

Cold-process soap class

Oils and lye, measured out and made into a loaf from scratch. The loaf rests on the rack to cure, then you collect your bars from the studio.

$65 Book a time →
Private party

Private party, up to 10

The whole studio for your group — up to ten people, one craft, and the bench to yourselves for the session.

$350 Book a time →
Add-on

Bachelorette add-on

Added to a private party. Tell us what your group is celebrating when you book and we will fold it into the afternoon.

$75 Book a time →
How it works

Soap takes weeks.
Booking takes a minute.

Book a bench, make something, and we will handle the resting, cutting and curing from there.

  1. Step 01

    Book your bench

    Call the studio with the workshop you want, how many people are coming and a date that suits you.

  2. Step 02

    Make it

    At the bench you pour wax into your vessel, or weigh and mix a cold-process loaf from scratch.

  3. Step 03

    Set and cut

    Candles cool and are boxed before you leave. Soap loaves rest, then get cut into bars.

  4. Step 04

    Collect

    Candles go home with you that day. Cold-process bars cure on the rack, and you pick them up when they are ready.

A maker's hands cutting a loaf of cold-process soap into bars with a wire cutter
Cutting day — bars off the loaf, onto the rack
Rows of pale cold-process soap bars resting on a long wooden curing rack
The curing rack — every bar on it started as someone's class
The studio

A lakeside studio in Traverse City.

Candles and cold-process soap made at one bench, in a studio that smells of wax and olive oil.

Interior of a candle and soap studio with a timber curing rack and a work bench laid out with tools
The bench and the curing rack, mid-week

Leelanau & Lye Studio is a working candle and soap studio. Everything here is made at one bench, next to a rack that holds row after row of curing soap.

Workshops run in small groups, and a private party takes the whole studio — up to ten people at a time. Either way you leave with something you made, and something we are still curing for you.

Service area
  • Grand Traverse County
  • Leelanau County
  • Benzie County
  • Antrim County
  • Traverse City
  • Suttons Bay
  • Frankfort
Booking

Book a time at the bench.

Bookings are taken over the phone. Tell us which workshop you want, how many people are coming and a date that suits you — we will confirm your place and set out the bench.

(555) 014-2290
Call to book See workshops & prices

What to have ready

  • Which workshop — candle ($45), soap ($65) or a private party ($350)
  • How many people are coming; private parties are up to ten
  • A date or two that suits you
  • If it is a party, what you are celebrating — the bachelorette add-on is $75
A small group pouring candle wax at a workshop table in the studio
A private party mid-pour