Build a Profitable, Sustainable Refillery - Without Guesswork, Waste, or Burnout
See where you’re leaking profit in under 5 minutes with the The Lean Refillery Profit Simulator. Download the Simulator for FREE to see how small changes can lead to meaningful profit gains.
Zero-Waste
Minimize your environmental footprint while maximizing profits.
Profitable Scale
Learn how to grow your business without compromising your values.
Refill-Based
Discover the benefits of a refill-based business model.
The Lean Refillery
Want to build a thriving, low-waste business that reflects your values, your creativity, and your community? Take this course where you will learn to formulate, produce, and sell refillable products in a way that’s sustainable, profitable, and uniquely you.
Clarity, Control, and a Calmer Way To Work.
- You’ll understand your numbers — what’s profitable, what’s not, and where to focus first — without needing an MBA or finance background.
- You’ll design a more streamlined operation that feels calmer, more sustainable, and easier to repeat as your business grows.
- You’ll see which parts of your business are quietly draining time or money — and how to address them thoughtfully.
- You’ll walk away with templates, calculators, and workflows you can return to again and again as your business evolves.
- You’ll start seeing sustainability not as an added cost, but as a practical advantage built into your systems.
- You’ll feel more in control of your business, instead of feeling like it’s controlling you.
The Lean Refillery: A blueprint for sustainable micro-manufacturing
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MODULE 1: Welcome & Profit Simulation
3 lessons- 1.1 - Welcome to The Lean Refillery
- 1.2 - Using the Lean Refillery Profit Simulator
- Module 1 - End Reflection
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MODULE 2: Turn Numbers into Strategy
3 lessons- 2.1 - From Simulator to Strategy
- 2.2 - Make or Buy?
- Module 2 - End Reflection
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MODULE 3: Smart & Sustainable Foundations
7 lessons- 3.1 - Zero Shame, Zero Waste Mindset
- 3.2 - Bulk Isn’t Better: The Hidden Cost of Bigger
- 3.3 - Why Refill Culture Builds Loyalty
- 3.4 - Making While You Sell
- 3.5 - Ethical Sourcing & the Power of Transparency
- 3.6 - Economics of Circular Systems
- Module 3 - End Reflection
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MODULE 4: Formulary Confidence
8 lessons- 4.1 - Your Formulator Mindset: Cooking With Chemistry
- 4.2 - Ingredient Personalities: Meet Your Materials
- 4.3 - Refill-Ready Formulas: What Works & Why
- 4.4 - Base Formula Family Trees: Build Your Product Line
- 4.5 - Signature Scents: Choosing Scent With Intention
- 4.6 - Your Formulator Toolkit: Reading Labels, Research & AI
- 4.7 - Capstone: From Experiment to Asset
- Module 4 - End Reflection
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MODULE 5: From Formula to Production
7 lessons- 5.1 - From Recipe to Real Life
- 5.2 - Batch Size, Rhythm, and Reality
- 5.3 - The Leanest Viable Formulary
- 5.4 - Tools That Earn Their Keep
- 5.5 - Systems That Protect Your Time
- 5.6 - Designing Production That Fits Your Life
- Module 5 - End Reflection
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MODULE 6: Closing the Loop
6 lessons- 6.1 - What Are You Actually Building?
- 6.2 - Choosing a Refill Model That Fits
- 6.3 - Time, Energy, and Capacity as Design Inputs
- 6.4 - Boundaries: What Not to Do
- 6.5 - Defining “Enough”
- Module 6 - End Reflection
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MODULE 7: Designing the Business for Your Customer
7 lessons- 7.1 - Your Customer Is the Hero
- 7.2 - What Are You Really Selling?
- 7.3 - Designing a Customer Experience That Makes Sense
- 7.4 - Labels, Language, and Transparency
- 7.5 - Community as an Ecosystem
- 7.6 - Naming the Business You’re Building
- Module 7 - End Reflection
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MODULE 8: Course Wrap-Up
2 lessons- 8.1 - Designing What Comes Next
- Module 8 - End Reflection
Dr. Brooke Lahneman - Sustainable Business Professor
“Tiffany does something in The Lean Refillery course that’s rarely done well: it treats sustainability as core to business strategy, not a trade-off. The focus on margins, production choices, and operational efficiency makes this immediately useful for founders—not just aspirational or overly academic. It’s a strong example of applied sustainable business education that will provide essential knowledge and tools to refillery founders.”
Katie Kurpanek
“What I loved about the Lean Refillery course is how calm and streamlined it feels. Tiffany has already lived through so much trial & error and found success in her business, so I'm thrilled to look to her as an expert! This course is practical, grounding, and refreshing—especially for anyone trying to run a values-driven business without burning out.”
Karin Reynolds
“From an educational standpoint, the course is exceptionally well designed. Concepts are scaffolded, reflection is built into the learning process, and the materials respect the intelligence and lived experience of the learner. Tiffany understands both teaching and real-world application.”
Emily Vasilauskas
"This course is grounded in a hard-won piece of wisdom: to sustain our community and our planet, we need to sustain ourselves. With empathy and rigor, Tiffany shows you, step by step, how to make a small eco-business really thrive."
