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We had some fun yesterday making bath products with Natrasorb Bath. Let’s see what we can make that might foam, moisturize, and soothe our skin in the tub! What’s up with this short series? Monique asked if we could make some foaming bath salts and I thought it would be a fun idea! If you...
Natrasorb Bath (INCI Tapioca starch) isn’t the kind of tapioca starch you can buy from a regular store. It’s modified so it can hold a ton of oils – carrier oils and fragrance or essential oils – in a powdered state. It’s hydrophilic – meaning it likes water – and it can absorb oils easily....
I had a magnificent breakfast at Cookie’s Diner in Chilliwack the other day, and found a bottle of St Ives lotion in the bathroom. It had the words “100% natural moisturizers” on the bottle, so you know I had to look at the ingredient list. (The actual product was aloe & chamomile, but I couldn’t...
Making a body oil is quite simple – pour some oils together in a container, mix, add a fragrance, put in bottle, rejoice! The only really difficult bit is choosing the right oils for the job! As we saw in last week’s Newbie Tuesday (testing our oils), each oil brings something different to the moisturizing...
I can’t believe it’s only been a few days since I told spammers I would pick apart their products and tell my readers how to make them, but here we are with another spammer. And this one is rich, I tell you! OroGold Cosmetics decided to pay me a visit by spamming this post, so...