#alltheingredients: What’s a fruit essence or distillate water?

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There are all kinds of botanical waters we can use in our products, and these fruit essences (aka distillate water) are a lovely way to get all the awesome goodness and fragrances of fruit without the bright or dark colours. A fruit essence is a “highly aromatic water recovered at the pre-heater stage of the...

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What are your favourite oils?

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I’m working on the ingredient list for the upcoming Newbie Tuesday naturally compliant lotion making series, and thought I’d ask you for some ideas about your favourite oils! I’ve chosen a very light oil – fractionated coconut oil – and some light oils – including rice bran, sweet almond, kukui nut – but I need … Read more

Potential duplication of Sisley Paris Floral Toning Lotion (part one)

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In the October duplicating thread, Pamela asked, Susan, I have heard a lot of raving from the Youtube beauty community about the Sisley Floral Toning Lotion, (Yes, it is Jeffree Star Approved! For what that’s worth!). But it costs $103 USD for 8.4 ounces!!!! They don’t have the full ingredient list anywhere that I could...

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Let’s take a look at conditioning hair masks! Increasing the viscosity of my epic rinse-off conditioner (part two)

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Catch up on this series! We’ve been taking a look at conditioning hair masks. We started by analyzing Sephora’s hair sleeping mask, rose smoothing and anti-frizz version. Then, we analyzed Moroccanoil’s version in depth, and took a look at a few others very briefly. Then, we looked at the conditioning emulsifiers we might use along with some emollients...

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Welcome to November 2019

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I always feel sorry for poor old November. It’s isn’t a really exciting month, more like the speed bump on the way to December, my favourite month of the year! It’s the month where I start paring down the “Make things for Christmas” list, realizing there isn’t time to make a quilt, prepare 50 Christmas … Read more