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I haven’t had time to answer your comments and e-mails lately, so I’m going to take the next few days to get to quite a few of them. If you have a question that you’ve been dying to pose, e-mail me or post them in this comment and I’ll see what I can do. I’m...
I didn’t realize that being away from work for four days would lead to such busy-ness! Sorry there haven’t been any new posts. I wrote a ton of them while I was on holiday, but they all need links and pictures and other things that take up time that I don’t have right now, so...
I write this post about how I’m back, then I forget to hit publish on yesterday’s post! I guess I need more vacation time! Pineapple extract (INCI Ananas cosmosus fruit extract or powder) can be found in a powder form that is used at 0.5% in the cool down phase of your product. This extract...
A huge thank you to the readers who wrote to me to ask if I was okay – I am! I thought I’d put a post saying I’d be on holidays this week, but it turns out I didn’t! We enjoyed what is being called a stay-cation, and I took the time to reorganize the...
I love bananas! They feel like a very silly fruit, all yellow and bendy, and they taste great. With high levels of potassium and Vitamin A, I try to eat one every single day! I’ve been playing around with powdered banana fruit extract lately, so I thought I’d share my thoughts! Banana fruit extract (INCI...