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Susan Barclay-Nichols This is a squalene molecule – note the “-ene” at the end indicating it contains double bonds. It’s found in rice bran, olive, and wheat germ oil, as well as shark’s livers! (Make sure the squalene you buy comes from olive oil and not shark livers – it’s unlikely you’ll encounter this problem, but double...
Petra wrote to me and proposed a challenge. Could we come up with a recipe to duplicate Lush’s Sugar Babe Sugar Scrub, a bath bomb like scrub that manages to remain hard enough to cut into pieces when dry, but would offer exfoliation and moisturization in the shower? Here are the ingredients…Fair Trade Sugar, Sodium...
I love this technique. I went out to Michael’s last night to buy a few more clear stamps so I can make more of these for Christmas (all the clear stamps are at least 25% until Friday). If you get into the store, check out the $1 bins near the check out – they had...
Yeah, I know this is a leave in conditioner and I don’t really address this here, but you could think of it as a really liquidy conditioner for the purposes of having a picture in this post…Olive oil is fantastic in hair care products. Sure, you could use it in shampoo, but what’s the point?...
I love love love this technique for melt & pour soap at the Soap Queen’s blog (click here for the video, click here for the non-video tutorial). I tried the two layer version this morning in anticipation of a class I’m doing this afternoon, and I think it turned out pretty well for a first...