Month: January 2018

Member exclusive: Potential duplication of Rodin Luxury Hair Oil (part two)

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This is part two of our attempted duplication of this Rodin Luxury Hair Oil. Please click here for part one. Step three: Figure out what’s really important and what’s there for label appeal. I think all these ingredients are important for how this product feels and smells. Having said that, you could make a nice...

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Member exclusive: Potential duplication of Rodin Luxury Hair Oil (part one)

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I have been enjoying so many of the “end of the year” lists on all kinds of fashion and beauty blogs where people list the products they can’t live without, and I thought it’d be fun to take a look at a few of these products to see if we could duplicate them. (This one...

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Q&A: Can you have a lotion fail by heating and holding two phases?

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Quite a few of you have been sending me a link to this post, One Minute Technical Support – Lotion Problems, from The Sage. In it, they state that if you’ve had a lotion fail, it might be because: “You use phases – heating ingredients separately rather than dumping all ingredients into one bowl/heating vessel....

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Celebrate another day of National Bubble Bath Day with a solid bubble bath more suitable for humid climates

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Yesterday, we celebrated National Bubble Bath Day with a solid bubble bath formula suitable for a less humid climate. Since where I live can get so humid you can see little water droplets in the air, I modified the formula to avoid using a lot of glycerin, which attracts moisture from the atmosphere to itself....

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