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Yesterday, I went on a bit of a rant as I reviewed the ingredient list for Lush’s Tea Tree Water toner*. Today, let’s take a look at how we might put together a prototype recipe.Ingredients: Tea Tree water, grapefruit water, juniperberry water, limonene, perfume, methylparaben. We learned that Lush makes their “waters” in this recipe...

  In June’s duplicating post, Cynnara suggested we take a look at Lush’s Tea Tree Water. To kick off what will be three duplications of Lush products this month, let’s take a look at this product and see if we can figure out how to make it.The first thing I do when I’m considering a...

In part one and part two of this duplicating series, we took a look at each ingredient. In part three, we looked at what type of product this might be. Today, we’ll put together a prototype recipe.As I said yesterday, I’m using 1% Aristoflex AVC to create a cold emulsion for this product. We have...

Yesterday, we took a look at the ingredient list for this product – part one and part two – and what each ingredient might do in the product. (Please visit those posts to see links for these ingredients.) Before we can create a prototype recipe, we need to answer a few questions.What kind of product...

We took a look at the first part of the ingredient list yesterday. Let’s look at the rest of it today…Thermus thermophillus ferment: Sederma* has this ingredient, but I can’t get any information about it as it’s behind the UL Prospector wall of doom. It’s listed as a skin conditioning agent by Health Canada*. Unfortunately,...