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I decided I’d try behenyl alcohol in place of cetearyl alcohol in this recipe – the rice bran oil based hand protector cream I made as a duplicate of the Body Shop’s hemp hand protector cream for my husband. The original recipe is a very thick lotion that feels slightly greasy going on your hands,...
Randi from Creations by Eden sent me out some green avocado butter, which is “…made from solid fraction of raw-green avocado oil, then fortified with sal butter-stearic fraction and virgin oil de coco-crème® solid fraction.” It’s light green in colour and has a very earthy smell to it. It’s quite hard and would need to...
The weather outside here is frightful, and I need something more than my toner to protect my skin right now. An oil filled moisturizer isn’t an option at the moment as I’m having some fun new break outs on my face, so I thought I’d try making my min-maxed toner into a gel using Amaze...
I know this can be a demanding hobby/craft/art/calling/obsession and I know it can be an expensive one sometimes, but making mistakes and “wasting” supplies is part of the process. I know this is a hard thing to accept – I can’t count how many times I’ve kept a product around thinking I’ll try to fix...
Sorry, I didn’t get around to formulating with the emu oil as I’ve been running around testing everything with my pH meter, and got into the surfactants bin in the workshop! I’ll have some posts on emu oil shortly! My husband has started calling me “magpie” because I’m easily distracted by shiny things! Now that...