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Let’s take a look at what we’ve learned about dry skin and about formulating products for dry skin! There are links o’ plenty and I really recommend that you click on them to find out more about each topic. This is intended as a quick summary of the last month, and if you want to...
Every day I get questions about hair care products and I notice that the top pages viewed are mostly relating to that topic…so allow me to pose this question – do you want more posts on hair care? Do you feel there’s enough in the hair care section about formulating for your hair type? Or...
I’m all about making recipes from scratch, coming up with a goal and making something awesome that fulfills those requirements…but I’d like to suggest to novice bath & body creators that you spend some time with well tested recipes. We were all newbies once – I spent hours and hours reading recipes, comparing them with...
If I were to make a sugar scrub for dry skin, which ingredients would I want to include? Occlusives, emollients, and humectants! But an emulsifier scrub is an anhydrous product, so it’s hard to include things like glycerin or sodium lactate as they will come out of the product and make a mess. So what can...
If you’ve been trying recipes from other blogs or websites and they haven’t worked, I suggest a few moments with this post – how can you tell if it’s a good recipe? I make this suggestion because I’ve spent a goodly part of today surfing various natural beauty product websites doing some research, and I...