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It’s definitely looking like Christmas these days, and I’m so happy that you want to give bath & body products to those you like and love this holiday season! I thought we’d take a moment to look at a few questions I’ve been posed in the last few weeks… As I mention in What you need...
Yesterday we modified a dry hair recipe to include fewer ingredients. Let’s look at an oily hair recipe today. We can base it on this recipe for a conditioning shampoo for oily hair that you can find in the hair care section of the blog. CONDITIONING SHAMPOO RECIPE FOR OILY HAIR52% distilled water15% C14-16 olefin...
As we saw last week (and in August!), we can alter the ingredients in our products when we’re designing a line of things to be used together. If we’re using a conditioner after shampoo, we could make something very basic that contains only surfactants, water, and preservatives that would cleanse our hair, but it wouldn’t...
In this post, Troubleshooting an epic lotion fail, Lisa asks: I have been making and selling my lovely lotion for 5 years. Due to higher demand I went from a 5 gallon batch to a 25 gallon batch, done in an oil melter. Exact same proportions/percentages. The lotion turned out totally watery! Not thick and creamy....
The search box in the right hand column isn’t working. I have no way to fix this as it’s a Blogger thing. In the meantime, please try the search in the upper left hand corner of the blog, or check out the sections of the blog that contain links. (Trust me, it’s messing me up...