If you love essential oils and want to sell what you make, this pathway was built for it. You learn the plants, the oils, the carriers and the safety. Then you learn how to run it as a business.
Plenty of people make blends for friends and stop there. The business course in here covers the plan, the structure, invoicing and GST, so it can pay you.
Plant identification, extraction methods, carriers, and which herbs and oils are hazardous. Customers ask, and the answer needs to be right.
It is online and self paced, with no exams, ever. You get 18 months of access and unlimited tutor support in business hours.
Natural products are a market people buy into with their hearts, and they want to buy from someone who knows the material. The work is easy to picture: sourcing oils, blending a range, labelling it well, and finding the customers who want it.
Your own range and your own customers. The oils knowledge and the business course are both here for it.
Building a product line: carriers, blends, extraction methods and safe formulation.
Selling oils online or in store, with the product knowledge to answer the questions customers bring you.
Advising on oils and blends for wellbeing use, within the limits of what a non-clinical course covers.
Supporting treatments where oils are used, with the safety knowledge a salon needs on the team.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. This is not clinical or medical training, and it does not qualify you to diagnose, treat or prescribe for anyone.
Two courses in one pathway, from the plants through to running the business.
Here is what stands out in this pathway.
Business types and structures, a business plan, bookkeeping and Xero. You finish with the setup done, not just the knowledge.
Safe use of essential oils and hazardous herbs and oils both get their own topics. This is the part that protects your customers and your name.
Growing and harvesting, methods of extraction, and carriers. Useful whether you make your own or buy in and blend.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Finish the pathway and you receive the college's Certificate of Achievement, covering both courses.
The business course leaves you with a plan, a structure and the bookkeeping set up in Xero.
Support for the job search, including a review of your LinkedIn profile.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly with no deposit and no credit check, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through both courses online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the pathway and receive your Certificate of Achievement, with a business plan ready to go.
None needed. The pathway opens with plant identification and an introduction to aromatherapy, so it builds from the beginning.
The payment plan is $29 a week, with no deposit and no credit check. You can pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly, or pay upfront. Enquire for the full options.
Around 200 hours at your own pace, with 18 months of access. There are no set class times, so it fits around work and family.
Yes. The business course teaches you how to create a business plan, understand NZ GST, invoice clients and track your earnings, with Xero for the bookkeeping.
There are none, ever. You are assessed on practical understanding, with tutor support behind you.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For selling oils and products it is no barrier: customers buy on your product knowledge and how you handle safety.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
Courses run fully online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching comes with your enrolment, including CV help, interview preparation and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the first order that comes in from someone you have never met, for a blend you made yourself. Made by you, ordered by strangers. That is a business.