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This week we’re all about getting to the very basics, defining what we need to know about making any product – part one and part two – and what different anhydrous products are called and contain. You might be thinking to yourself that you won’t be making lotions any time soon, but you really can...
When you start out making bath & body products, we can get bumfuzzled by all the terms for different products, which makes it hard to figure out what to make. We might see a recipe and think we’d like to make that, only to find out that it isn’t what was promised or it was...
Yesterday we covered the basics of making products – what anhydrous means, what it means for something to be water soluble, and so on – so we’ll take a look at a few other ideas before resuming the Newbie Tuesday posts tomorrow. EMULSIFIERS You cannot mix oil soluble and water soluble ingredients without an emulsifier....
I’m thrilled by all the newbies visiting the blog eager to make products – welcome! Let’s start at the very beginning (which I’m told is a very good place to start), and take a look at some of the basics of making products based on the questions I’ve been seeing lately. Most of the products...
Let’s take a look at some of the comments I’ve seen around the blog this week! Do you have a question? Check out the Weekend Wonderings post and comment! Or comment on other posts on the blog. I just check that one first, usually! In this post on Mother’s Day prezzies, there were two comments…...