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Love your feet! It’s sandal season and you know your feet are going to take a beating. So let’s modify our solid scrub bar to give our feets a treat (yeah, poor English, but it rhymes!) So how is this going to be different than Friday’s scrub bar? For your feet you’ll want something heavier,...
Solid scrub bars are a fantastic way to get the exfoliating and moisturizing action of a sugar scrub in the portability of a bar (as Homer notes, the only way to get the awesome power of food is in a bar format, only ours won’t contain Chinese newspapers). Solid scrub bars are really modifications of...
Cyclomethicone – how I love thee, volatile, oil soluble liquid-y silicone that makes my skin feel soft and smooth and makes my hair behave. With all your cyclically goodness, I love to add you to hair care, body care, and personal care products! (I’m getting married in 2 days…I think I’m entitled to be a...
I know it’s Wednesday and I’m supposed to be posting a mineral make-up tutorial, but I simply don’t have time with the wedding preparations and work. Meanwhile, enjoy this post on dimethicone! So now you know how awesome dimethicone can be in hair care and anhydrous products, let’s include it in a lotion! You can...
Here’s the link to the recipes for the pet care class, specifically to the fragrance mister and the pet powder. My little Blondie dog is going to smell absolutely of strawberries after her walk tonight. (She’s getting a bath on Thursday in anticipation of the wedding, but I can still make her smell lovely today!)...