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…in the Barclay-Nichols’s household. (Don’t hit me!) It’s might seem like Christmas is a huge 61 days away, but when you’re a crafter, you have to start early! I don’t think it’s helpful for me to start posting recipes on December 1st because you need time to try out these products, see how the fragrances...
I’ve been going on and on about pumpkin seed oil as it’s my new favourite oil, one that has a nice balance of linoleic acid and oleic acid, phytosterols, polyphenols, and Vitamin E. It’s also an appropriate time of year to be using the seeds from this gourd in our products because it seems like...
Thank you to my you, my lovely readers, for your comments. The work has been removed, but I’m still not happy with what the company had to say about why it happened. I think the explanation is that they were really busy and couldn’t contact me because they didn’t have my contact information? I’m still...
In the original WTHDIBT&WCIDWIW post, Kathy Q brought up the ingredient Cromollient SCE (INCI: Di-PPG-2 myeth-10 adipate). We’ve discussed it before, but let’s take another look at it and what it can bring to our products. Cromollient SCE is an emollient PPG ester we can use to solubilize oil soluble ingredients into water soluble products, or...
I thought I’d try using pumpkin seed oil in my favourite emulsified scrub recipe, tweaking just that one ingredient so I could see what it brought to the party. You can use any number of different butters and oils in this product – this is what I wanted to choose today. I mentioned I wanted...