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So you want to make an oil based remover. What are our goals? Something with glide Something cleansing Something emollient Fractionated coconut oil and shea oil are great glidy oils. Sunflower, safflower, soy bean – again, good glide. Avocado, hazelnut and grapeseed are “dry” oils, and not great with the glide, so save those for...

There are four ways to make a make-up remover, so this is going to use all the stuff you’ve learned so far….Surfactant based – this will be a foaming make up remover composed of about 10% surfactants, a few goodies, preservative, and water. It is vital the pH will cause no more tears, so LSB...

This is a lip balm left uncoloured on one side and coloured using ruby red mica on the other. It is intended as a lip gloss with a little titch of colour, so you are only using the micas to colour it. As you can see from the lipstick making post, if you are going...

We made a water based fragrance spray that was incredibly easy (1% poly 20, 1% fragrance oil, 0.5 to 1% preservative, and 97.5% to 98% water), so why are we making something more difficult to do the same thing? Because we can. And because there are different reasons for making a oil based spray. It...