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Sponsored by readers like you: Fabric stencilling with freezer paper

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I admit I’m addicted to stencilling because it gives me a chance to make funky personalized t-shirts and other fabric items with an X-acto knife, some freezer paper, and fabric paints. My How’s That Made group has spent the last two weeks stencilling. Week one, we learned how to make stencils. Week two, we decorated...

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Learning to formulate: More tweaking of light lotions

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We know that a light lotion has about an 80% water phase, 19% oil phase, and 0.5% to 1% preservative.  And we know we can tweak that lotion silly with any ingredients we want as long as we stay within those guidelines if we want it to remain the consistency of a light lotion (You...

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An aside: Oily roots, dry ends

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Take a look at your local drug store’s shampoo aisle and try to find something just for oily hair. You can’t. It’s all for oily roots, dry ends. And this actually makes some kind of sense. If you have longish hair, your ends will be less healthy than the roots because they have been subjected...

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Learning to formulate: Light lotions (updated)

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As I’ve mentioned before, a light lotion is one that consists of about 80% water and doesn’t contain lots of butters or other thickeners. This is something you’d use as a body lotion or facial moisturizer as it’s not sturdy enough to handle being a hand or foot lotion. It works out to about 80%...

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Learning to formulate: Lotions with minimally processed ingredients continued

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Yesterday we made a lotion with minimally processed ingredients, let’s make a body butter in a similar fashion. Again, I’m going to use an emulsifier and a preservative, which means I can’t have a 100% minimally processed product. But we can go for something on par with 92% minimally processed ingredients! So what ingredients do...

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