Formulating a creamy exfoliating cleanser for oily or sensitive skin types!

If you want a creamy exfoliating facial cleanser, but think yesterday’s recipe won’t agree with your skin, let’s see how we can modify this for other skin types! Oily skin: The jojoba esters may work for you if you have resistant skin, so you can keep those in if you like, although olive oil esters...

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Formulating for your skin type: Creamy exfoliating facial cleanser with jojoba beads

My best friend has normal to slightly oily skin, and together we formulated this exfoliating jojoba bead facial cleanser as a once-to-a-few-times-a-week cleanser to help moisturize her skin when she doesn’t feel like using a moisturizer. This recipe is good for dry to normal type skin. The cleanser itself didn’t take a really good picture...

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Yarrow craft group: Melt & pour soap

I hope you enjoyed making melt & pour soap today! I’m sure you can see the possibilities for making your own soap molds using silicone ice cube trays, chocolate molds, and containers from around the house. If you are interested in melting & pouring at home, click here for the instructions from today’s class! If...

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Formulating for dry skin: Facial cleansers

Cleansing our skin is vital, and using surfactants can irritate the heck out of any skin type, but dry skin is particularly susceptible to stripping of oils when using detergent based cleansers. You can even get away without using surfactants if you have very dry skin (my mom hasn’t used anything except water on her...

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