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Welcome back to this series in which we’re making a hydrating winter skin & scalp spray with loads of botanicals & actives, which can be used as a skin and scalp hydrator, a facial toner, or a sprayed serum before you use an anhydrous product, like whipped body butter, body oil, or facial oil. In...
Welcome back to this series in which we’re making a hydrating winter skin & scalp spray with loads of botanicals & actives, which can be used as a skin and scalp hydrator, a facial toner, or a sprayed serum before you use an anhydrous product, like whipped body butter, body oil, or facial oil. The...
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,...
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...
Let’s take a look today at prickly pear extract! The one I’m referring to most in this post will be FSS Prickly Pear extract G PF (INCI: Glycerin & Water & Opuntia Tuna Flower/Stem Extract), where the “G” means it is dissolved in glycerin and “PF” means it’s paraben free. This ingredient contains 39% glycerin, 39%...