We’re going to learn all about emulsification tomorrow (the pre-cursor to lotion making! Yay!) but here’s a tutorial to give you some of the basics in the form of a fun, water based fragrance spray. Oil and water don’t like each other, so oil based and water based things don’t like each other. But we...

Reviewed and revised May 20, 2020. My favourite make-up remover is water based. I don’t wear waterproof mascara, so this is perfect for my needs. It leaves a nice slightly oily feeling on my skin but doesn’t leave that oily film on my eye lashes. The key ingredient in a water based remover is a...

So you want to make an oil based remover. What are our goals? Something with glide Something cleansing Something emollient Fractionated coconut oil and shea oil are great glidy oils. Sunflower, safflower, soy bean – again, good glide. Avocado, hazelnut and grapeseed are “dry” oils, and not great with the glide, so save those for...

There are four ways to make a make-up remover, so this is going to use all the stuff you’ve learned so far….Surfactant based – this will be a foaming make up remover composed of about 10% surfactants, a few goodies, preservative, and water. It is vital the pH will cause no more tears, so LSB...

This is a lip balm left uncoloured on one side and coloured using ruby red mica on the other. It is intended as a lip gloss with a little titch of colour, so you are only using the micas to colour it. As you can see from the lipstick making post, if you are going...