Natural Products Course
Boost your Biological Sciences career via the Natural Products Course. Master affordable lab assays, ethical field collection, extract preparation, and safe topical formulations to transform medicinal plants into proven skin care products. This hands-on programme equips you with practical skills for evidence-based natural product development in a Kenyan context.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Natural Products Course provides a practical guide to creating safe, effective topical products from plant extracts. You will learn to choose and record plant species, gather and process samples in the field, conduct budget-friendly tests for antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties, analyse findings, and formulate stable products that comply with ethical, legal, and quality standards.
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Develop skills
- Screen bioactive plant extracts with quick antioxidant and antimicrobial tests.
- Design affordable topical assays including COX/LOX, MIC, and wound-healing methods.
- Prepare stable crude extracts through field collection, drying, and solvent choice.
- Develop safe herbal creams and gels with basic formulation, quality checks, and patch tests.
- Apply ethical bioprospecting practices like consent, benefit-sharing, and record-keeping.
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