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I’ve been creating visual guides to making some of the products you’ll find on this blog – like wax tarts and whipped butters. Check out my SnapGuides to see these tutorials! I thought some of them might be very nice for Christmas presents!...
I’m seeing a lot of really – hmm, how do I say this without sounding really mean? – less than awesome recipes out there on the Interwebs for products you could give at Christmas. I’m seeing recipes for lotions with no emulsifiers, body butters composed entirely of coconut oil (more about this below), or products...
…but I’ve had the seasonal flu! Achy, sore, stuffed up, and generally grumpy for the last week and a half! I managed to crawl out of bed to teach a class on facial products at Voyageur Soap & Candle on Saturday, but then it was right back to bed. Those products you see below are...
In this post on making deodorants, Alaska asks: I looked up Herbarie and was wondering if the AquaEm or Cromollient SCE would work in place of the water soluble esters? Thanks! In the original recipe, I’m suggesting cyclomethicone – an oil soluble silicone – or Crodomol PMP – a water soluble ester. So yes, we can...
Thanks so much to this week’s reviewers of recipes! I really appreciate the hard work and thoughtfulness you put into your contribution to the blog! Thanks to Ella for her version of an aftershave gel! Thanks to Paige for this interesting looking body butter for pain made with Lotionpro!Thanks Ann for your version of the Trilogy Gentle...