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Keep your scrubs and lotions longer with anti-oxidants! Yesterday we talked about preservatives, now let’s talk about anti-oxidants.So what’s the purpose of anti-oxidants, other than the skin care benefits? They retard rancidity in your oils! Why do oils go rancid and what the heck does “rancid” mean? Oils are really triglycerides, which is to say...
Please note that I have an entire section of this blog devoted to preservatives, which lists all kinds of different ones, what goes into a preservative, and a downloadable comparison chart, to name a few things. Before commenting, please consider looking at that section as I think the question you have may be answered there. ...
If you read this when first posted, you probably realized I had not included any of the new exciting ingredients from the speciality ingredients post! I guess the painkillers from the knee injury are making my brain woozy! So let’s tweak our original recipe to include these exciting new ingredients! My changes are in green...
So you like your moisturizer, but you want those extra fancy ingredients to treat specific issues you might have…so what to do?There are literally thousands of ingredients you can add in small amounts to your moisturizers, and, as much as I’d like to, I can’t spend the rest of my natural life reviewing them (hey,...
Yeah, I know, once you find a moisturizer you like, it’s really hard to try a new one. I was forced to make my own after my favourite decided to change an ingredient and my acne prone skin broke out like silly! So what is the difference between a light lotion and a moisturizer? The...