Anhydrous

Formula: Making a few Vick’s like products with essential oils for cold & flu season

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After sharing the post yesterday – Formula: Essential oil blend that might be like Saje’s Peppermint Halo Headache Remedy – Raymond remarked that we needed more of that Vick’s like jelly as one of us is bound to be sick sooner rather than later. Then I realized I hadn’t shared this with you, so it’s time...

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Weekday Wonderings: Why make an emulsified body butter over a whipped butter?

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I used to do a thing on the old blog I called Weekend Wonderings where I’d find comments you’d made over the previous week and share them in a post. I stopped doing it as there were so few comments on the old blog and a lot of them were things that had been said...

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Creating an awesome new emulsified scrub bar with my new butters!

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Last week, I introduced you to one of my favourite new butters – tucuma butter – so I thought today  I’d share with you the awesome new emulsified scrub bar I created with it. When I make scrub bars, I tend to make the base, then add the scrubby stuff outside of the main formula...

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Subscribers’ Q&A: Can we freeze oil soluble extracts or essential oils to prevent rancidity? 

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In the June Q&A, LY asked: I saw a post about freezing oils to keep them from going rancid. Can you also freeze oil soluble extracts without them losing their potency? In the same post, Amber asked: What about Essential Oils? The main reason to put anything in a fridge or freezer is to slow down the process...

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Potential duplication of L’Occitane Divine Youth Oil (part three)

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On Monday, we reviewed the ingredient list of this anhydrous facial serum. Yesterday, we reviewed the list to see what was important and how much of ingredient to use. Today, let’s see how we can create a potential formula. Okay, we have an idea of how we’ll make this duplication with all those oils, but...

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