Month: July 2020

Summer products: 10 minute strawberry & honey parfait with ViscOptima SE, part one

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Welcome back to this series, Let’s make and modify products for summer! When it comes to making anything for summer, we can make all kinds of modifications that’ll make our skin feel colder, more hydrated, more watery, but still reduce transepidermal water loss and give us all that awesome moisturized goodness we want in our...

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Q&A Quickies: Let’s talk about water – distilled, spring, mineral, alkaline, and reverse osmosis

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For the love of all that is good and holy, do not use tap water in your products! It’s full of all kinds of things – chlorine, fluoride, metals, bits of soil, and so much more – that can mess up the clarity, stability, preservation, and general goodness of your products. Check out this post...

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Another installment of “For the Love of God, please don’t make that!” – insect repellent edition.

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Every year I say it but please please please don’t make your own insect repellent! Like sunscreen, this is a product that must be tested for efficacy and registered with a governing body of some sort. You can’t just throw a few things you think work as insect repellents into a bottle and say it...

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#alltheingredients: St. John’s Wort hydrosol & extract (water soluble)

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We met St John’s wort infused oil in June 2020, so I thought it was time to look at other ingredients made using St John’s wort like the gorgeous hydrosol I’ve been using a lot lately. I wrote the first version of this post in March 2010! Wow!  St John’s wort is claimed to offer...

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Welcome to July 2020!

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Welcome to July 2020! Wow, we’re half-way through what is turning out to be a once-in-a-lifetime terrible year, and I hope you’re all keeping well! This was originally a short post as July 1st was Canada Day, and we took the day off to eat poutine and maple syrup and perogies and all kinds of other … Read more