A helpful tip for making lotions, conditioners, and emulsions: Don’t mix by hand. 

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I cannot find the post I wrote on this anywhere, so I either didn’t publish it or only imagined I shared this, so if you’ve seen it before, I apologize for the duplication.  A helpful tip for making lotions, conditioners, and other emulsions: Don’t mix by hand.  I’m sure the idea of “hand churned” lotions...

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Combining emollients: What have we learned so far, parts one through four (viscosity), plus a downloadable cheat sheet!

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Let’s update our review page to see what we learned in part four of the series on viscosity before we start part five, surface tension. (You can find the home page for this combining emollients series by clicking here!) The larger the spreading value of an emollient, the lighter it’ll feel on your skin. The...

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Combining emollients: Section four, viscosity – Creating an anhydrous body oil (part five, using oil soluble extracts)

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Welcome to section four, part five of this series on combining emollients! In this part of the series, we’ll be making an anhydrous body oil (one without water) with all the information we have about viscosity and spreading values to see how those might impact the choices we make to create a smooth cascade of...

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Combining emollients: Section four, viscosity – Creating an anhydrous body oil (part four, meeting some oil soluble extracts)

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Welcome to section four, part five of this series on combining emollients! In this part of the series, we’ll be making an anhydrous body oil (one without water) with all the information we have about viscosity and spreading values to see how those might impact the choices we make to create a smooth cascade of...

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What’s this in my stocking? A massage bar instructional handout? Thanks, advent calendar fairy!

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The advent calendar fairy crept into my house last night and left this PDF for you, the handout for a massage lotion bar from the Valentine’s Day class I would normally teach at Voyageur Soap & Candle. Since the apocalypse has made it impossible to teach in person, I thought I’d share this six page...

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