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Super quick, super easy products for gift giving: Emulsified foot scrub bars!

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Three foot scrub bars - oval bars made with various butters and pumice - sit under a pink violet.

I thought I’d share some of my favourite, easy-to-make, quick, inexpensive formulas you might want to sell or give as gifts this year. You can find the original formula in this post – One ingredient, five products: Stearic acid in foot scrub bars! I’ve modified it quite a bit since I shared it then.  My...

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Let’s make a 10 minute rinse-off conditioner with all kinds of humectants, botanicals, conditioners, proteins, and more: Part seven – adding more conditioning ingredients 

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Hi, everyone! I’m sorry this series has taken so long to finish. I’ve been working on loads of great stuff over the summer for upcoming series and e-books, and this series wasn’t completely written up until now.  Let’s create an awesome conditioner into which we can add all kinds of wonderful ingredients, including the awesome...

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Super quick, inexpensive products: Lip scrubs!

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I thought I’d share some of my favourite, easy-to-make, quick, inexpensive formulas you might want to sell or give as gifts this year. I’m starting with one of my favourites – this really easy lip scrub!  One of the easiest and fastest products you’ll ever make are these lip scrubs, based on the ones from...

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Let’s make a 10 minute super moisturizing rinse-off conditioner with all kinds of humectants, botanicals, conditioners, proteins, and more: Part six – adding butters!

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Butters measured into a Pyrex jug, sitting on the metal plate of a digital scale. For decorative purposes.

Let’s create an awesome conditioner into which we can add all kinds of wonderful ingredients, including the awesome new-to-us humectant XYLISHINE™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Maltitol (and) Xylitol (and) Pelvetia Canaliculata Extract). In part one, we looked at what a conditioner is, why we’d use certain ingredients, chose our conditioning emulsifier, then we created...

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Let’s make a 10 minute rinse-off conditioner with all kinds of humectants, botanicals, conditioners, proteins, and more: Part five adding oils!

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A beaker filled with conditioner sits on a countertop with a thermometer in it and an immersion blender next to it on the counter

Let’s create an awesome conditioner into which we can add all kinds of wonderful ingredients, including the awesome new-to-us humectant XYLISHINE™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Maltitol (and) Xylitol (and) Pelvetia Canaliculata Extract). In part one, we looked at what a conditioner is, why we’d use certain ingredients, chose our conditioning emulsifier, then we created...

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