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This lying in bed in pain thing is really working for me! I’ve created another visual tutorial, making whipped butters, which you can find on SnapGuide. I have a few more ideas, but I’d like to know what you think would work as a visual tutorial. Let me know!...
I’m lying in bed with a spasming piriformis muscle, so I thought I’d write up another SnapGuide! This time we’re looking at lotion bars! The next one? Why whipped butters, of course! Just in time for the Newbie Tuesday post! I’m gathering new pictures for these tutorials, so let me know what you want to...
I do love my whipped butters! The feeling of whipped shea butter on my horribly dry skin in the winter or after a long and too sunny camping trip makes me so happy. It really is amazing how simple they are to make, but as with anything in the creation of bath and body products, it’s...
I’m thrilled by all the responses to this series on the skin feel of our oils – I guess doing my disappointed face worked, eh? – so let’s take a look at a few things we’ve learned so far and how we can modify our products to get a different skin feel. If you want...
ADDING SURFACTANTS TO EMULSIFIED SCRUBSIn this post, Experiments in the workshop: Black cocoa butter emulsified sugar scrub, Stephany writes: Could I incorporate a little bit of surfactant in this to make it foamy???And in this post on facial scrubs, Stephany offers a potential recipe. (Click to see it.) An interesting thought, but no, you can’t add...