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I can’t believe that I have over three weeks off work starting on the 15th, so I’ll have time to play in the workshop with loads of different ingredients making different products. I’ll have time to write and do research! So I’m asking you – what do you want to see in the new year...
We’re being battered by rain storms here on the West Coast, so it’s a good time to get indoors and into the workshop! If you want to make a really luxurious product for your friends this holiday season, you can’t go wrong with a whipped butter. They’re super easy to make and look gorgeous! I...
In this post, Experiments in the workshop, Shanna asks: I created one of your minimal synthetic ingredient lotions and it turned out perfect!! Love it. However, I made the stupid mistake of adding exfoliating extracts namely rosehip and lavender not knowing at the time that they were exfoliating lol. So now I have speckled bits of...
In this post, Recipe round-up: Make-up removers, Triska asked: So, a lot of the makeup removers in my supermarket are those bi- phasic ones you shake before using. I would love to try to replicate them but I just dont quite understand them, is it just that you have an oil phase and a water phase plus...
In this post, Conditioners become shave bars, Melanie asks: This shaving bar is the best!For the first time in my life my legs don’t hurt all day after shaving! No razor burn! My son is a barber and he used it to shave his friend’s head with a straight razor and it worked great. His only...