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The advent calendar fairy crept into my house last night and left this PDF for you, the handout for lip balms from my Handmade Christmas class I would normally teach at Voyageur Soap & Candle this time of year. Since the apocalypse has made it impossible to teach in person, I thought I’d share this...
The advent calendar fairy crept into my house last night and left this PDF for you, the handout from my melt & pour class at Voyageur Soap & Candle! This 13 page document shares all kinds of information on how to make gorgeous melt & pour soap with including how to make basic moulds, layered...
The advent calendar fairy paid a visit to the blog early this morning, and left this special treat for you, my lovely readers! The always wonderful Jo-Anne, creator of the Syndet Shampoo Bars Facebook group, where I’m a mod, has created a visual tutorial on how to make shampoo bars that she’s letting me share...
As we’ll be working a lot with adding ingredients over this summer series and as this is a skill you definitely want to know to become a better formulator to modify or create your own formulas, I thought we should take another look at how to modify a formula when you add watery ingredients. I...
Join me on Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 11 am PDT (Vancouver, Canada time) for our meeting about overhead mixers and magnetic stirrers! We’ll be creating a body wash using xanthan gum and a face serum using Sepinov EMT 10 as I demonstrate how to use these devices. As a note, as of Saturday, I...