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As we continue to spend all our freakin’ time working on getting the links to the PDFs working on the blog, please enjoy this post on making a lip scrub! My best friend, Wanda, is in love with a certain company’s lip scrub, which seems to consist of a few ingredients like jojoba oil, peppermint,...
In this post on emulsifiers, Toni asks: Can you see any reason that Lotionpro 165 should not be used as an emulsifier for emulsifier sugar scrub? I ran out of Polawax but I’m not sure if Lotionpro has limitations. Lotionpro 165 (Lotioncrafter’s name for it) or Simulsol 165 (same thing, found at Windy Point) is...
With summer sandal season looming on the horizon in the northern hemisphere, a lot of attention is paid to our feet. Check out this recipe for a foot scrub bar containing stearic acid. (Which can be paired nicely with the thicker foot cream with stearic acid we made last week…) A lot of the ingredients...
There is quite a lively debate ongoing in the bath & body community about what kind of preservatives to use in an oil or emulsified scrub. (Heck, there’s a debate about whether we need to use a preservative in a scrub, but I’m firmly on the side of “yes” for that one!) The question is...
I still have some foaming bath butter in my workshop, so I thought I’d make a hydrating and moisturizing scrub for the winter months. I find foaming bath butter on its own makes my skin feel a bit tight after using, so I wanted to add some moisturizing ingredients. I thought I’d add some oil...