When you’re duplicating products, you’ll soon come to realize that the commercial products contain a lot more water and a lot more mineral oil than we generally use in our products at home. One of the reasons for using a lot more water is cost. Water is fairly inexpensive compared to oils, butters, surfactants, and...

There’s been a lot of debate about the ingredient Everlasting Flower Absolute (Gnaphalium uliginosum) in Lush’s Afterlife moisturizer. Some people have argued it’s helichrysum, which is a very expensive essential oil or extract that is used in facial products, which can also be known as everlasting or immortelle. If you go to the Lushopaedia, they list...

Let’s take a look at Lush’s Afterlife Moisturizer and see if we can duplicate this! (As a note, this is the reason to send me the ingredient list. Because it’s been discontinued, I can’t find this product on the Canadian, American, or UK Lush sites!) The first step is to get the complete ingredient list. ...