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Hi everyone! As you can tell by the subject line, this month we’re offering a $15 coupon instead of the e-zine that you can use on anything you find in the shop. For the e-zines, I have a number of them going at any one time. Some are written over a period of days when...
FOR JULY 2020 $10 SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Thanks so much for your patience waiting for this month’s e-book! I love conditioners so much, that if it hadn’t been for having a month end deadline, I’d still be writing! This month’s massive e-zine – The big book of conditioners, two: Building conditioners – is all about creating...
We’ve been getting ready to leave for England on March 5 for a few weeks of family time before the In Cosmetics Global convention in Barcelona on March 31, April 1, and April 2, and I just ran out of month (even with the leap year). I’ve taken on far too much these last few...
Thanks so much for your patience as I finished up this super lengthy e-zine this month. I’ve been working on this e-zine series since last year, and there was just so much I wanted to share with you! Oh wow! 25,902 words and 74 pages long, this e-zine is all about hydrocolloids, natural and modified...
It’s been a wonderful year of adding new ingredients to my workshop, and in this e-zine, I’m sharing my process and base formulas for trying new ingredients in warm and cold lotions, hair conditioners, moisturizers, and more, and playing with five new ingredients – tamanu oil, cloudberry seed oil, Iselux Ultra mild surfactant blend, a...