An aside: Colouring oil based products

This is a lip balm left uncoloured on one side and coloured using ruby red mica on the other. It is intended as a lip gloss with a little titch of colour, so you are only using the micas to colour it. As you can see from the lipstick making post, if you are going...

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Lip balms and lipsticks – updated for 2020

I love creating lip balms for any time of year, but in the winter, they’re essential! There’s quite a simple formula you can use, and you can tweak to your heart’s content. (This is a formula created by Majestic Mountain Sage and it’s the best one I’ve found…) 20% beeswax 25% soft butter (coconut oil, shea...

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Oil based fragrance sprays and solid perfume (updated)

We made a water based fragrance spray that was incredibly easy (1% poly 20, 1% fragrance oil, 0.5 to 1% preservative, and 97.5% to 98% water), so why are we making something more difficult to do the same thing? Because we can. And because there are different reasons for making a oil based spray. It...

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Bath oil and after bath moisturizers

In your bath oils or lotion bars and apres bath misters are intended to trap the water from your shower or soak in by using oils. Think of them as lotions without water, much like the lotion bar. As they are oil based, we won’t use a preservative or other water based ingredients in our...

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Body scrubs – oil based.

(This is a photo of my much beloved manicure scrub. As you can see, I really need to make more!) OIL BASED SUGAR OR SALT SCRUB Making a sugar or salt scrub is fairly simple. You need two major ingredients – salt and oil at equal amounts. IN THE TUB SCRUB (formula) 97% liquid oil...

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