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As we saw in this post and this post, the pH of our skin care products is absolutely vital, and more so for facial products. When we’re creating a cleanser, toner, or any other non-lotiony product, we have to make sure we are testing our pH and ensuring that it will be in the right...
As we saw yesterday, the pH of our skin is pretty important. Out of whack pH levels can lead to an increase in scaling, a decrease in hydration, and a possible increase in bacterial and yeast infections. In short, having an out of whack pH level can lead to dry skin and icky infections! (And...
A toner is a product intended to remove any cleanser and oils from your face prior to application of a moisturizer. For those of us with oily skin, it can do double duty as a moisturizer. For those of you with dry skin, it might not even be a step in your facial cleansing process,...
This recipe is based off this one, sort of, so read it first, if you wish! And I really encourage you to read this post first – facial cleansers for dry skin – because I really do go into most of the detail necessary for you to create a facial cleanser in this post! Then read...
We’ve created our basic body wash recipe and we’re happy with it…but we could tweak it further! (We can ALWAYS do more tweaking, but it takes real skill to know when to stop!) So what kinds of things we could do to this recipe to make it more moisturizing and what ingredients will increase the...