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Hi everyone! Welcome to April 2023! March 2023 was a pretty hard month for us health wise. Raymond is currently in bed with COVID, feeling pretty awful, and all the medical stuff I had going on in December has started up again with loads of tests and travelling to appointments and such, and I’m feeling … Read more
Hi everyone! I’m terribly sorry that there isn’t an e-book this month. I’ve been doing poorly for the last few weeks and Raymond just tested positive for COVID, so we couldn’t finish the e-book in time. (Click here to read more about what’s going on with my health. There will be more updates next week.) ...
You know how much I love hydrolyzed proteins, and I’ve been using this one for years without writing an #alltheingredients profile? What? How? Weird! Let’s rectify this now! Hydrolyzed rice protein is a clear, brown, liquid, water soluble hydrolyzed protein derived from rice. It has a balance of cationic (positively charged) and anionic (negatively charged)...
I am finding I’m using niacinamide more and more in my products lately. It’s not just for facial products for me; I’m finding use for it in body butters as well! The claims for niacinamide are pretty substantial and they are backed up by studies and good science. (See the end of this post for...
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