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Making a body oil is quite simple – pour some oils together in a container, mix, add a fragrance, put in bottle, rejoice! The only really difficult bit is choosing the right oils for the job! As we saw in last week’s Newbie Tuesday (testing our oils), each oil brings something different to the moisturizing...
Last week we decided we would get to know our oils a little better by testing them neat on our skin and writing down the results. This week, let’s do it! Before we start, prepare a little chart for yourself that outlines the name of the oil, the colour, the viscosity (very light, light, medium,...
Don’t underestimate the value of skin feel in your products. You can make the very bestest, seriously kicking bum kind of product filled with the very best cosmeceuticals, extracts, oils, and hydrosols, but if you hate the feel of it, you’ve wasted your time. When it comes to making lotions, whipped butters, lotion bars, and...
Coconut oil is a great choice for bath and body products. It’s inexpensive and it has some fatty acids we don’t find elsewhere. It has a really long shelf life – up to 2 years – thanks to all those saturated fatty acids. Virgin coconut oil smells absolutely of coconuts and is divine if that’s...
As this post is all about the scrubbies, please refer to the physical exfoliants (part 1) and physical exfoliants (part 2) posts rather than having me recap them there. You’ve created your most excellent oil base for your facial scrub (dry and normal skin or oily skin), and now you want to add some scrubbies...