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As we continue to spend all our freakin’ time working on getting the links to the PDFs working on the blog, please enjoy this post on making a lip scrub! My best friend, Wanda, is in love with a certain company’s lip scrub, which seems to consist of a few ingredients like jojoba oil, peppermint,...
We took a look at making a toner by including Ultrez 20 with a neutralizer, and we made a toner/oil free gel moisturizer for normal skin types by adding ingredients to pre-made gel yesterday. Let’s take a look at making a chamomile and cucumber oil free gel moisturizer/toner both ways. VERSION 1: MAKE A GEL, THEN...
You shared your opinion here, by e-mail, and on my new Facebook page for the blog, so we’ll be spending a few more weeks on creating gelled products with Ultrez 20 and Sepimax ZEN. Last week we took a look at adapting a toner to become a gelled toner by incorporating Ultrez 20 into your recipe....
Wow, I’m really off track again thanks to the intellectual property theft and plagiarism I’ve been dealing with lately, and I ask your indulgence as I try to figure out how to fit all the things in that need to be done and keep up with posts on the blog. I hope you enjoyed making...
Oh my gosh! It’s here! The day on which we start making a facial cleanser. Are you as excited as I am for this? Woo! We’ll be taking a look at the process of creating a foaming facial cleanser over the next few days – so it’s really not a Tuesday only thing for this...