Botanical

Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part one): Overview and choosing surfactants! 

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You all know I’m a huge fan of shampoo bars – click here for my enormous post on shampoo bars that’ll help you navigate all the materials I have on these – but sometimes I like a nice liquid shampoo I can take to my hairdresser that won’t be as super bubbly, foamy, lathery™ and...

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Q&A: What is Undaria pinnatifida (seaweed) powder? Where can I find it? How can I make this gorgeous OSEA Undaria Algae Body Oil?

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In the monthly Q&A, Donna asked, Hello, I am trying to duplicate a body oil that has seaweed/algae as an ingredient, undaria pinnatifida powder to be specific. I can’t find a similar ingredient that will work in oil. All other ingredients are oils or extracts. Does anyone have a suggestion? The body oil is OSEA Undaria Algae...

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#alltheingredients: Cranberry extract (liquid, water soluble) – botanical extract

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To poorly quote John Oliver, “Cranberries are just cherries that hate you,” and while it’s true for the juice and non-whole berry jelly, cranberry extract liquid is bursting with anthocyanidins, which work as potent anti-oxidants while adding a gorgeous red colour to your formula! Cranberry liquid extract can also offer anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-septic properties,...

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#alltheingredients: Blueberry extract (INCI: Vaccinium Uliginosum Fruit Extract and Propanediol) – water soluble, liquid

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As blueberries are my very favourite fruit, I was super excited to receive this gorgeous liquid extract from Voyageur Soap & Candle* to try in all kinds of water-based and emulsified products! We’ve already met two types of blueberry oil before – Blueberry seed oil (INCI: Vaccinium corymbosum (blueberry) seed oil) and Blueberry seed oil (INCI: Vaccinium...

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Creating an apres sun cooling & soothing spray (part five, botanicals, hydrosols & distillates, preservatives, and the new formula!)

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Welcome back to this short series on making a lovely cooling and soothing apres sun spray. In part one, we looked at some ingredients we could use to create a base formula. In part two, we chose our preservatives, then made the base formula. In part three, we investigated at a few more ingredients we...

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