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It’s almost summer in the Northern hemisphere, and I know I’m being exposed to a lot of sun as I shake off the cold, wind, and rain of the winter and enjoy the great outdoors before the hot and smoky summer season is upon us. Let’s take a look at a lovely spray we could...
In this month’s Q&A, Sehrish asked, I want to know that as it is said in sugar body scrub we should not add water based ingredient. So how tree hut’s body scrub is made i am just curious that how it is made in the ingredients list there are sugar, glycerine, poly 20, aqua, oil based ingredients...
I’ve written a lengthier post that you can find here – The formula is only the start: The process is everything! – that I’d like to draw your attention to in this post. I can’t stress this enough – if you’re following my formula, you must follow my process and instructions for making it. Failure to...
How did this beautiful, fluffy, gorgeous conditioner with Varisoft EQ 65 become that epic fail? This is what happens when the process required to make a product isn’t followed properly. If it needs high shear and you’ve used a hand mixer, the product will fail. If you’re supposed to alter the pH at a certain...
Short post because I’ll be referring to this quite a lot in a few upcoming series… The type of emulsion you make isn’t just about how much oil or water we have in a lotion – like, more water = oil-in-water (o/w) or more oil = water-in-oil (w/o) – but about the emulsifier. This emulsifier...