The Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics, in Woburn, is offering it next 300-hour Esthetics Program, beginning August 13. Natural Awakenings readers who register before the start date can receive a $500 discount on the full-time day program. The institute also offers 30- to 80-hour advanced education courses, approved by the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Cosmetology, to all licensed estheticians.

“We hope people will take advantage of this limited time tuition discount at the Catherine Hinds Institute,” says president An Hinds, whose mother began establishing a chain of skin-care salons in Boston and New York in the late ’60s and early ’70s. In 1979 Catherine Hinds founded her own institute, which was the first accredited esthetics school in the nation.

Location: Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics, 300 Wildwood Ave., Woburn. For more information, call 781-935-3344 or visit CatherineHinds.edu.