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Susan Barclay-Nichols I love conditioner bars, and I thought I’d share this visual tutorial for making them with you while I write some lotion posts! If you want to follow along, please check out the conditioner bar or shaving bar recipes! SOLID CONDITIONER BAR RECIPE60% Incroquat BTMS10% cetyl alcohol (you can use stearic if you want a...
My headache is still here, hence the visual tutorial on shampoo bars – I was preparing it for a few weeks from now. But I’m wondering what you want to know about lotions. I am going to be working on a few posts on oils and butters – more chemistry about what they are, how...
I do love shampoo bars, so I thought I’d make up a visual tutorial to share the love. If you want to follow along, you can use this recipe. This is the recipe I’m using for this batch… MELTY INGREDIENTS 30% SCI flakes 30% SLSa 15% DLS mild 10% Bioterge 804 3% cetyl alcohol 3%...
Apparently the exciting sinus infection from which I’ve been suffering since mid-August has set me into migraine mode, which is making me feel horrible and grumpy. (My last migraine was 1996 and before then I’d only had maybe 4 or 5, so it’s a whole new fun experience remembering why they were so awful!) So...
My blog recommendation for a good laugh today is Regretsy, a blog detailing some of the hideous crafts available on Etsy (Warning: Contains some very not safe for work or people under 18 kind of things…enter at your own risk!) Regardless of what you think about this site – some people think it’s mean to...