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Although I find it can get overwhelming trying to choose the perfect oil for your creation, I always think of my end goal for the product, what skin feel I want, and what I can access and afford. (I’ve been looking at cranberry oil at various on-line retailers, even considering order from the States, only...
There is no good reason for putting this picture into this post, except my love of this card and chemistry! So what do I want to accomplish this year? WHAT TO CHANGE?Get organized – personal: I shouldn’t start off the year by being negative, but I really think I like the idea of being organized...
So what have we learned by taking a look at the ingredients in heat protecting hair care products?What was the same? Each product contained dimethicone, water soluble or oil soluble, in differing amounts. Each contained conditioning agents, usually as a cationic quaternary polymer as opposed to an intense conditioner as a cationic quaternary compound (like...
I don’t tend to make New Year’s resolutions often, but I did last year and posted them here…Just for fun, let’s see how I did! WHAT I WANTED TO CHANGEBecome more organized: Slightly better than this time last year as I have organized my sewing and jewellery making supplies pretty well, but the bath &...
Let’s take a look at another heat protecting hair care product – ghd Thermal Protector. Like the Nexxus product yesterday, this is a water based product. Ingredients: Water, SD Alcohol 40-B, Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate, Propylene Glycol, Polysorbate 20, Aminomethyl Propanol, AMP-Acrylates/Allyl Methacrylate Copolymer, Benzophenone-4, Butylene Glycol, Citric Acid, Cocodimonium Hydroxypropyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Helianthus Annuus...