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Adapting your products for summer: Modifying body butter

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Let’s re-formulate our body butter to make a very moisturizing, less occlusive, more soothing moisturizer suitable for making our sun parched skin happy during the summer months! We’re not going to change the purpose of this body butter, but we’re going to switch out a few ingredients to maximize its benefits for this time of...

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Adapting your products for summer

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You probably change your fragrances for the summer months, so why not tweak your ingredients to suit the climate? (In fact, you probably already do this in adding humectants and the like, so think of it as a possible selling feature if you’re in business?) I’m not a fan of hot weather, humid or not,...

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Making an oil free moisturizer with water soluble oils

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If you want to make an oil free moisturizer, why not start with esters or water soluble oils? They have the goodness of oil, but aren’t as thick and don’t need to be emulsified. I’ve been playing around with water soluble oils lately, and I am really quite surprised at how much thickening they actually...

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Mineral make-up – Part 16: Earth tones – matte

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Happy Canada Day! I realized I should be offering some tutorials on how to make red and white today, but who wants to wear red eye shadow? Instead, make the basic white and the Red Earth recipe below and you got yourself a Canada Day happy face! Earth tones are always a lovely way to...

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Oil free moisturizer

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Leanne wrote to me asking for some tips on creating an oil free moisturizer. By definition a moisturizer contains oil, water, and emulsifier…so is it possible to make an oil free moisturizer? Yes! When you see lotions in the stores with “oil free” emblazoned on the container, they still contain an oil phase. Generally the...

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