Month: March 2015

Question: Determining how much to use when working with powders

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From this post, Making a water-in-silicone serum, Nanette asks: How do you determine the correct percentages of powdered ingredients? 2% of powder A could weigh significantly more than 2% of Powder B. These kind of conundrums are the reason we weigh all our ingredients intead of using teaspoons or tablespoons. How much allantoin are we...

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Formulating with soy bean oil: Creating a foot cream (part two)

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Yesterday we took a look at the oil phase of a potential foot cream. Let’s take a look at the water phase today. What do I do with the water phase? What kinds of things do I want for feet? If I’m thinking about  hydrating my skin, I want to go with a humectant. I’m going...

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Formulating with soy bean oil: Creating a foot cream (part one)

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Yesterday we took a look at soy bean oil. I thought we could take a look at a few recipes in which soy bean oil would be a great addition! For some people, soy bean oil might be a little greasy for the hands, but it’s perfect for a body lotion or foot lotion! Let’s...

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Let’s take another look at soy bean oil!

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I’d like to talk to you for a few minutes about soy bean oil. It’s not a sexy oil or one that’s trending in beauty products, but it’s one of the most inexpensive ones you can find and it’s packed full of all kinds of neat stuff, like tocopherols (anti-oxidants), phytosterols, and isoflavones in addition...

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Happy National Craft Month 2015!

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Woo! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! National Craft Month! The time to make time to craft and make things. If you’re new to the idea of making bath & body products, may I suggest a few projects for you? Bath bombs: You can’t go wrong with bath bombs! They’re easy to make...

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