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SNOW DAY! Day two of Snowmageddon in the Fraser Valley! It’s more than one Sasja high! Time to get into the workshop and make some super awesome winter products. What’re your favourite winter ingredients or products? I love love love allantoin at 0.5%, always in the heated phase at 50°C (122°F)! No lower or you’ll...
A very merry Christmas to all who celebrate to you and those you love on this wonderful day! And to those who don’t celebrate, I hope you’re having an equally lovely day. Raymond, Sasja, and I wanted to take a moment to thank you for all your kindness this year! We are truly the most...
Hi everyone! I’m working furiously on two e-books, posts for the site, and this upcoming Zoom workshop, which will take place on Friday, December 29, 2023, at 2 pm PST (Vancouver time, -8 Greenwich time), which I think will work for a lot of time zones? It will likely run 2 hours. I will share...
Hey everyone, as I mentioned in the Welcome to December post – which I definitely suggest you read as there are all kinds of information in there each month – I’d love to do a Zoom workshop on something later this month, during the Christmas to New Year’s break (25th to 1st). The 25th and...
Way way back when I was just a starting formulator who still bought personal care products from the shops, I searched for an oil-free moisturizer for my very oily, acne prone skin. The helpful young woman at Shopper’s Drug Mart recommended a product that contained not only sunflower oil, but shea butter too! I was...