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Randi from Creations by Eden sent me out some green avocado butter, which is “…made from solid fraction of raw-green avocado oil, then fortified with sal butter-stearic fraction and virgin oil de coco-crème® solid fraction.” It’s light green in colour and has a very earthy smell to it. It’s quite hard and would need to...
My friend Ken, an herbal nutritionist, asked me about the differences between oil based and emulsified scrubs and why he would choose one over the other. The functions of the two scrubs are quite similar – they are both intended to exfoliate the skin with salt, sugar, or other scratchy things and leave behind a...
You may remember the post from a few days ago when I made a whipped butter for my best friend’s horribly mangled foot…well, now it’s my turn! My lower back has not been nice to me for almost two weeks. (I fell down a flight of stairs on a ferry two years ago, leaving me...
So I’ve decided. I’m making a whipped butter for my best friend with the aloe butter and some lovely oils. Part of this is that my back hurts a lot so I can’t be in the workshop for a long period of time while I make a lotion and part of this is that I...
As I may have mentioned, my best friend, Wanda, had an operation on her foot about 6 weeks ago, and she is need of some soothing foot products, so I’ve turned to a few different ingredients to help moisturize the skin around the bandages and to help speed the healing (although I’d never make a...