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I keep seeing people talking about not using shampoo bars because they have long hair and need liquid instead. I’m not getting this. As you can see by the picture, my husband and I are long haired people we use shampoo bars every shower! One of the complaints I see is that the shampoo bars...
Welcome to Workshop Stadium. This week the Chairman, Raymond (my lovely husband), has chosen the fifth Iron Chemist ingredient – Floraesters IPJ! Here are the rules. (Click here for the long version.) Raymond rolled an eight, which means he chose an ingredient from the sample box in my workshop. I have until next Saturday, January 29th,...
Randi from Creations by Eden sent me out some green avocado butter, which is “…made from solid fraction of raw-green avocado oil, then fortified with sal butter-stearic fraction and virgin oil de coco-crème® solid fraction.” It’s light green in colour and has a very earthy smell to it. It’s quite hard and would need to...
More awesome creations from our craft group where we had a little fun with fleece! Jay’s Bob-Bomb in fleece is a work of art (it’s a character in Mario Brothers’ games) that took him the full two hours, and they had great fun making scarves and pillows with appliques in the group. Fleece is a...
Another week, another Iron Chemist challenge!. I love rice bran oil and use it by the bucketload in so many products I make, so it was hard to create two products in which I could use it in a different way. I chose to add to the challenge this week and attempt to duplicate two products...