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Happy New Year! Let’s hope 2022 is much much better than the couple of years that preceded it, eh? We’re not making any big plans for this year, but I do have tickets to see Bruce Dickinson’s spoken word tour in March, so fingers crossed for that, eh? Both Dr Brian Cox and Dara O’Briain … Read more
Welcome back to this three part series on making a moisturizing, hydrating, occlusive body butter for protecting and soothing our skin during these colder, windier, snowier winter months! In Thursday, December 29th’s post, we chose an emulsifier and the oil phase. In Friday, December 30th’s post, we chose the rest of the ingredients. Today, Saturday,...
Welcome back to this three part series on making a moisturizing, hydrating, occlusive body butter for protecting and soothing our skin during these colder, windier, snowier winter months! In yesterday’s post on Thursday, December 29th, we chose an emulsifier and the oil phase. In today’s post on Friday, December 30th’s, we’re choosing the rest of the...
On the syndet shampoo bar Facebook group I moderate, someone asked about hair masks, and noted they were getting quite popular, so I thought I’d share some of my favourite formulas from the blog so you can get your hair all lovely and wonderful after being exposed to wind, snow, cold, heat, swimming pools or...
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