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I don’t think it would be helpful to talk about essential oils without talking about the chemistry, so I’m going to take a few days to review what we find in these oils. If you’re interested in learning more chemistry, this’ll be a two-fer as we delve into the various molecules we might find in...
A huge thanks to those of you who have donated for the e-books or made a donation to our Rated T for Teen programs! Thanks to you we can have our Christmas extravaganza groups – our once a year, try to get as many projects in at once so the kids can give out gifts to...
In all honesty, if your acne is bothersome enough to have you considering adding tea tree oil to a moisturizer, then your face probably doesn’t like oils. I’d really ask you to consider making a gelled toner, like this one, and adding tea tree oil with the solubilizer (like the Caprol Micro Express I used...
As we saw from the studies on tea tree oil, using it in our facial products could help with acne. I’m going to include it in a facial cleanser with one small disclaimer – this is not an unscented product! It has a light medicinal smell, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, so you might...
Last Christmas, I made my friend Ken a shampoo that might have been good for dandruff. Unfortunately, I didn’t hear back from him about the product, so I don’t know if he liked it or not. I had a little problem with some flakes during the summer, so I tried it and quite liked it....