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I think we all know by now what I think of emulsified sugar scrubs. (Do a search for sugar scrub and you’ll find a ton of them), so I thought I’d try this recipe using the golden shea butter. For some reason – and I’m not sure why now – I decided to use 25% golden...
I admit I’m not normally a fan of unrefined shea butter. It can go grainy much more easily than the refined stuff I use, and sometimes there’s a smoky nutty kind of scent that doesn’t seem to agree with me. So I was a little apprehensive about using golden shea butter, sent to me by...
I had such great success with the yesterday’s black cocoa butter solid scrub bar, I had to try it in a sugar scrub! I figured the increased meltiness of the cocoa butter would be an awesome moisturizing ingredient, but I did worry it might be too melty in the container! Using this recipe, I figured...
Randi of Creations from Eden sent me this amazing black African Natural cocoa butter. It’s so much easier to chop into little pieces than regular cocoa butter because it’s softer with a lower melting point. My knife just cut into this cocoa butter – normally, I wish for a hammer when I’m breaking up cocoa...
Whipped golden shea butter I’ve purchased or been sent a ton of new supplies lately, ingredients with which I’ve never worked, so I thought it would be fun to do a kind of random series of posts on what I’ve been making lately in my workshop with those ingredients while I do more research for...