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Update: We’re coming home on Friday on a very very long flight home – Manchester to Paris, Paris to Toronto, Toronto to Vancouver! As you can see, Raymond, Emrys, Bryce, and I are still in Liverpool, England, away from home on the other side of the world. We’re all doing well – no signs of … Read more
I shared a bit about this butter a few years ago, but I’ve been playing with it a lot more lately, so I thought it was time to take a closer look at this hard, brittle butter. Illipe butter (INCI: Shorea Stenoptera (Illipe) Seed Butter) aka Borneo tallow is a hard, white to cream, brittle...
Honestly, I’ve been putting this off as it seems there’s a lot of emotion around this topic, and it’s been a bizarre month with a lot of vitriol sent my way and I really don’t have the energy to read any more negativity, so I thought it best to leave it. Then someone wrote a great … Read more
You can see in the photo above, this product eventually becomes really clear. This can change based on the fragrance/essential oil. In this version, I used Honey I washed the kids (Lush duplicate) fragrance oil with a few drops fuchsia LabColours. In part one, we took a look at the surfactants for this body wash....
Before we start, the photo above is day three/four of the body wash, and you can see it’s crystal clear. All the bubbles are gone, even though it was bouncing around in the cargo of a few different planes for quite a while. In part one, we took a look at the surfactants for this...