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If you’ve never made a recipe before, try staying as closely to it as you can. On my blog, there are generally a few different versions of the recipe to be found! Let’s say you like this recipe for my emulsified sugar scrub, click on the links in the post or click on the labels...
For about a year now, I’ve been messing around with eye creams. I made one last year that I really liked, but my mom felt it was a bit heavy for her tastes. I made an anhydrous version with the cera bellina, which I quite liked as well, but I wanted to use some water...
From a post that wasn’t ready for prime time, Anonymous asked: I find a lot of my emulsions get little bit of oil leaking out after several days or even longer. Is there anything that can be done to prevent this? I never see that happening to store bought products, and those are on shelves for...
Welcome back to part two of this week’s Newbie Tuesday. Did you figure out your hair type? Have you taken a look at some ingredients that you might like to use? All right, let’s get to it, then! Let’s say you have normal thickness, dry, slightly curly hair that you dry with a hair dryer....
If you’re just joining us, we made conditioner on Newbie Tuesday two weeks ago, and last week we bragged about it. Last week was all about the questions, and this week is about the tweaking! You’ve made your conditioner, but now you’re looking for a few ideas on how to customize it to your hair type. Where to start?...