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I’m regularly asked by my wonderful readers to help with modifications to recipes. I’m always happy to help, but I have to ask the question – why are newbies coming up with recipes from scratch? I get that you want to make something really wonderful and customized and all about you, but I really suggest...
Do we really believe that Suzanne Somers’ “ageless beauty” comes from her line of organic products that don’t contain toxins? (It looks like she uses Japanese honeysuckle as the preservative, something we know is a natural paraben. I have nothing against parabens, but it looks like this ingredient isn’t as an effective preservative as once...
Wow, I’m really flaky lately, saying I’m going to write some posts, then not doing it, then showing up again to say I’m going to write some posts then not doing it and so on. I’ve been double-plus-ultra-mega-super busy lately (I’ve done at least two youth groups of some kind Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday this...
Anonymous asked this interesting question about co-washing or the no shampoo method in this post: I happen to come across your intesting post regarding cleansing conditioner. I am currently starting the co-wash method however I sometime use products with silicones. So my questions is if I am trying to remove silicones build up then why use...
Just so you know, this scrub uses melt & pour soap and is from this challenge (click for the post to find the recipes) as Petra and I tried to duplicate a Lush product. I used this mold from Voyageur – click here – one I use for a lot of things! In this post,...