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I am asked all the time about adding essential oils to facial products and the short answer is yes, you can use essential oils in facial products. The long answer is slightly longer…And as usual, please treat essential oils with respect, acknowledging that they aren’t just about adding scent to a product, they may also...
Oil soluble extracts of things we’d normally use as water soluble ingredients can add a little oomph to our oil based facial scrubs. A lot of these you’ll find are extracts in fractionated coconut oil (capric/caprylic triglycerides) or a fairly neutral oil, like sweet almond oil. Let’s take a look at a few of them...
I hope you are enjoying 2013 so far, which, I have to admit, is a weird sounding year. I guess it’s the 13…but I digress. I’m a big fan of goals, but not a big fan of resolutions for myself any more. A recent study showed that we do best in changing our behaviour – quitting...