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A very merry Christmas to you and yours for those who celebrate from Raymond, Sasja, and me! Hope you’re spending the day as you want – roasting chestnuts on an open fire, dashing through the snow, rocking around the Christmas tree, watching The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t in your underpants drinking egg nog…However you keep … Read more
You may notice that most of my emulsions contain 0.1% T-50 mixed tocopherols in the cool down phase to protect the oil phase ingredients from becoming rancid quickly. Why do I use that amount? Before we start! If you aren’t familiar with Vitamin E or T-50 mixed tocopherols, I encourage you to read this post...
I’ve been very kindly sent three new preservatives from Voyageur Soap & Candle, and thought I’d share these with you to give you more options for all your product makin’ needs! This is the second one I’ve been using called TRIstat PCG 90! Yesterday, we met TRIstat SDHA FCC, NF! Click the link to learn...
I’ve been very kindly sent three new preservatives from Voyageur Soap & Candle, and thought I’d share these with you to give you more options for all your product makin’ needs! As with everything on this site, this is not an ad, sponsored content, or anything that might benefit me financially, like affiliate links. I’m...
I love a good multiuse product, so I set out to create a product that would clean both my hands and face, dispensed from a foamer bottle. Luckily, the concepts are very similar – we want something that foams enough to feel cleansing but rinses off cleanly so we don’t have that dry or tacky...