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If you read this when first posted, you probably realized I had not included any of the new exciting ingredients from the speciality ingredients post! I guess the painkillers from the knee injury are making my brain woozy! So let’s tweak our original recipe to include these exciting new ingredients! My changes are in green...
So you like your moisturizer, but you want those extra fancy ingredients to treat specific issues you might have…so what to do?There are literally thousands of ingredients you can add in small amounts to your moisturizers, and, as much as I’d like to, I can’t spend the rest of my natural life reviewing them (hey,...
Yeah, I know, once you find a moisturizer you like, it’s really hard to try a new one. I was forced to make my own after my favourite decided to change an ingredient and my acne prone skin broke out like silly! So what is the difference between a light lotion and a moisturizer? The...
We’ve made a regular lotion (about 70% water) and we’ve made a thick cream (about 60% water), so let’s take a look at light lotions. They are great for body and face – you might call them a moisturizing milk or a facial moisturizer. They’re fine for bottling in non-pump bottles as they are quite...
I don’t tend to take pictures of lotions – surfactant creations are much prettier! – but this is an example of a little kit you could put together of your body butter, scrub and, and bath salts. Plus, I was getting tired of not having pictures on the site! So you’ve made your first...