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I do love my whipped butters! The feeling of whipped shea butter on my horribly dry skin in the winter or after a long and too sunny camping trip makes me so happy. It really is amazing how simple they are to make, but as with anything in the creation of bath and body products, it’s...
I’m thrilled by all the responses to this series on the skin feel of our oils – I guess doing my disappointed face worked, eh? – so let’s take a look at a few things we’ve learned so far and how we can modify our products to get a different skin feel. If you want...
ADDING SURFACTANTS TO EMULSIFIED SCRUBSIn this post, Experiments in the workshop: Black cocoa butter emulsified sugar scrub, Stephany writes: Could I incorporate a little bit of surfactant in this to make it foamy???And in this post on facial scrubs, Stephany offers a potential recipe. (Click to see it.) An interesting thought, but no, you can’t add...
Since we’re all still jonesing for the Dish forum, and since you can’t see all the comments that are made in a nice chronologically ordered page like I can, I thought I’d share some of the comments I’ve seen this week or direct you to posts with interesting and lively conversations! Join in and share...
It has been a busy week! With the semester coming to an end, I’m furiously revising in anticipation of the final class on Monday with the final exam on the 26th, and work has grown quite busy, too. Keep the questions and sharing thought coming! We’re still Dishless and I know I love to hear...