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Caroline wrote to ask about graininess in lip balm. She’s using mango and cocoa butter and wants to know how to get rid of the grains…The first thing I’d try is changing butters – but that isn’t going to make a difference because the inherent problem is with the cooling down of the lip balms,...
There are a few ways we can get the awesome power of green tea extract into our creations – powdered green tea extract, liquid green tea extract, and green tea butter or camellia oil. Today we’ll take a look at using the powdered extract!You can add green tea extract to any creation containing water. To...
After three days of information about green tea, surely we’ve covered everything? What more could we include? We’ve covered caffeine, proanthocyanins, and tannins and catechins. Are there still more interesting things to be found in green tea? We find selenium behaving as an anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory in green tea. It is a co-factor in the...
Yep, I’m still going on about the awesome power of green tea extract, but it really does deserve four posts! We’ve already looked at caffeine and proanthocyanins, and tomorrow we’ll take a look at the other things found in green tea. Today – tannins and catechins! Green tea extract is filled to the brim with...
I know I go on about labelling things, but there’s a good reason. Look at the picture to the left. Look at the picture to the right. If the sun wasn’t shining through the window and you were using the same bottles, the products would look very much the same. The one on the left...