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Formulating with extracts and oils – facial moisturizer for dry skin

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Let’s play with our extracts and oils to come up with a really decadent light facial moisturizer for someone with dry, aging, weather damaged skin. (For the post on basic facial moisturizers, click here…) Let’s start with our oils and butters. I don’t like to use butters in a facial moisturizer because it can bother...

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Green tea extract: Formulating with powdered extract

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There are a few ways we can get the awesome power of green tea extract into our creations – powdered green tea extract, liquid green tea extract, and green tea butter or camellia oil. Today we’ll take a look at using the powdered extract!You can add green tea extract to any creation containing water. To...

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Formulating – water based itchy skin spray

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I do like anhydrous products, but sometimes there isn’t enough moisture to trap onto our skin. So I thought of making a water based itchy skin spray, something akin to a toner or a modified toner. This way Raymond could spray it on before using the anhydrous products or use in the summer when we’re...

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Formulating with oils – whipped butters for itchy skin!

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Apparently I am illustrating these posts with Raymond in his Hallowe’en costumes…Although most of us wouldn’t recognize it, the kids at the party at the library yelled “Reno” when he came in (from Final Fantasy). I just think he looks cute!I think I’ll try formulating a very thick, rich anhydrous butter to help with Raymond’s...

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