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Hey $10 subscribers! The October e-zine is ready. Check out Scents of the Season!

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It’s Autumn! Time for all those rich, spicy fragrances and essential oils to fill your home with feelings of coziness and warmth. Learn to make soy candles with wooden wicks, room and linen sprays, solid perfumes, and unicorn dust powdered bubble bath, incorporating the scents of the season.  To honour the awesomeness that is candy...

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Let’s take a look at conditioning hair masks! Increasing the viscosity of my epic rinse-off conditioner (part one)

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In this post – Let’s take a look at conditioning hair masks! Part one – Sephora’s hair sleeping mask collection! – I asked if you wanted me to write up a version of my rinse-off EPIC hair conditioner that included 3% cetearyl alcohol, which would be thicker,  and you said yes! So let’s do that now!...

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Update on the e-zine…

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Sorry for the delay with this month’s ezine. I’m afraid I’ve been suffering through some serious muscle spasms over the last four weeks, and I’ve had a number of days when it’s been hard to sit up and write for longer than an hour-ish. The good news is that they’re abating thanks to the exercise … Read more

Q&A quickies: Why do we have to allow the product to cool before packaging?

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Why do we always say to package your product when it’s reached room temperature? Because we don’t want all that condensation in the bottle or the cap, which can happen when the product is even slightly warm. Before you know it, you have mold and other nasty things growing in the cap that’ll end up...

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Let’s take a look at conditioning hair masks! Part four – creating a coconut & argan oil overnight hair mask

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We’ve been taking a look at conditioning hair masks over the last few days. We started by analyzing Sephora’s hair sleeping mask, rose smoothing and anti-frizz version. Then, we analyzed Moroccanoil’s version in depth, and took a look at a few others very briefly. Then, we looked at the conditioning emulsifiers we might use along with some...

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