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Nothing says winter like minty, menthol-y goodness, so let’s take a look at using essential oils and menthol to create a a few wonderful things you can use or gift this winter! In our first super simple festive formula post, we took a look at making lip scrubs. In the second, we looked at making...
Welcome back to part three of this body butter formula. In part one, we reviewed the emollients we might like to use in this formula, including butters. In part two, we looked more closely at the emollients we could use and worked out a few ideas using the principles of combining emollients and the definitions for...
Welcome back to part two of this body butter formula. Yesterday, we reviewed the emollients we might like to use in this formula, including butters, so let’s put those into action today after taking a look at some other ingredients I’d like to include, like solid esters, liquid esters, silicones, and humectants. We’ll be using...
Welcome back to Formulating Friday! I thought I’d take this post or two to get into the concept of combining emollients to make choices for the Formulating Friday body butter formula we’ll be making on Friday. It’ll look like the Newbie Tuesday body butter formula with some changes, so keep that one in mind as...
In our last super simple festive formula, we took a look at making lip scrubs. Today, let’s take a look at making emulsified sugar scrubs, which are amongst my favourite formulas ever! I can’t believe I haven’t talked about these in the last year, so let’s take a look at the concepts, then a bunch...