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I’m going to be featuring some of the mineral make-up recipes from craft group over the next few days. We’ll start with Emily’s Wonderland…2 scoops magnesium violet5 scoops red mica1 scoop base (alternate base)3 scoops lemon pop mica4 scoops tangerine pop mica So now you’ve found out how much fun making your own eye shadow...
This is the ferulic acid molecule as I couldn’t find one for rice bran oil! Rice bran oil (INCI: Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Oil) contains 16% palmitic acid, 2% stearic acid, 42% oleic acid (C18:1), 36.6% linoleic acid (C18:2), and 1.5% linolenic acid (C18:3). It contains tocopherols at 400 mg per kg of oil, which...
This is a squalene molecule – note the “-ene” at the end indicating it contains double bonds. It’s found in rice bran, olive, and wheat germ oil, as well as shark’s livers! (Make sure the squalene you buy comes from olive oil and not shark livers – it’s unlikely you’ll encounter this problem, but double...
Petra wrote to me and proposed a challenge. Could we come up with a recipe to duplicate Lush’s Sugar Babe Sugar Scrub, a bath bomb like scrub that manages to remain hard enough to cut into pieces when dry, but would offer exfoliation and moisturization in the shower? Here are the ingredients… Fair Trade Sugar,...
I love this technique. I went out to Michael’s last night to buy a few more clear stamps so I can make more of these for Christmas (all the clear stamps are at least 25% until Friday). If you get into the store, check out the $1 bins near the check out – they had...