Month: May 2012

Query: Why are you trying to make recipes from scratch?

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I’m all about making recipes from scratch, coming up with a goal and making something awesome that fulfills those requirements…but I’d like to suggest to novice bath & body creators that you spend some time with well tested recipes. We were all newbies once – I spent hours and hours reading recipes, comparing them with...

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Formulating for dry skin: Making an emulsified scrub

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If I were to make a sugar scrub for dry skin, which ingredients would I want to include? Occlusives, emollients, and humectants! But an emulsifier scrub is an anhydrous product, so it’s hard to include things like glycerin or sodium lactate as they will come out of the product and make a mess. So what can...

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A few thoughts for a not-warm-enough Saturday in May…

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If you’ve been trying recipes from other blogs or websites and they haven’t worked, I suggest a few moments with this post – how can you tell if it’s a good recipe? I make this suggestion because I’ve spent a goodly part of today surfing various natural beauty product websites doing some research, and I...

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Formulating for dry skin: Making a body butter

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I know I keep saying the same thing, but when you make a product for dry skin you want to make sure you’ve chosen appropriate occlusive ingredients – allantoin, dimethicone, or cocoa butter – along with good emollients that contain linoleic acid, gamma-linoleic acid, or conjugated linoleic acid and good humectants. You want these things...

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Question: How do I know how much of an ingredient to include in a product?

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I can’t believe I haven’t answered this question yet, and I suspect that there is a post out there on this topic, but I figure we’ll take another look at this idea!  How do you know how much of an ingredient to include in your product? These are a few of the things I consider…...

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