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Creating a Hydrating Eye Magic Gel-Cream in less than 10 minutes with SIMULGEL EG! Part one, the formula!

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SIMULGEL™️ EG hydrating eye magic gel cream. A white airless pump sits on a digital scale. In front of it is the lotion from the bottle, a white creamy emulsion.

Last June, I joined Jen and Jaimie in the Lotioncrafter lab to create a few new awesome things! My favourite is this Hydrating Eye Magic Gel-Cream we made in less than ten minutes using SIMULGEL™️ EG and some awesome actives to make the skin around your eyes appear brighter, tighter, and less puffy. We based...

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Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ fun: Making botanical extract filled shampoo, facial cleanser, or body wash (part five) – finalizing the formula without so many extracts!

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A bottle filled with a light yellow shampoo with an orange pump cap sits on a black dashboard

I really loved this shampoo I made in 2023 – Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair – so I thought I’d make it again with some other botanical extracts as well as this gorgeous hair active, Fision® HydraTress (INCI: Water, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Seed Extract,...

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Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ fun: Making botanical extract filled shampoo, facial cleanser, or body wash (part four) – adding too many solvents by accident! 

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A bottle with a silver pump sits on a white counter in a bathroom. The bottle contains a red- purple liquid, a body wash with too many extracts.

I really loved this shampoo I made in 2023 – Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair – so I thought I’d make it again with some other botanical extracts as well as this gorgeous hair active, Fision® HydraTress (INCI: Water, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Seed Extract,...

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Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ fun: Making botanical extract filled shampoo, facial cleanser, or body wash (part three) – adding more botanical extracts!

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A dark red liquid foaming facial cleanser in a foamer bottle with dragon's blood extract in a bottle on one side, bilberry extract on the other. They're all on top of a scale.

I really loved this shampoo I made in 2023 – Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair – so I thought I’d make it again with some other botanical extracts as well as this gorgeous hair active, Fision® HydraTress (INCI: Water, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Seed Extract,...

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Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ fun: Making botanical extract filled shampoo, facial cleanser, or body wash (part one) – the formula! 

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A yellow liquid in a Pyrex jug with a large fork on it on a scale with three bottles of surfactant beside it. Taken in portrait mode.

Eeek! I am out of everything here at home! I make almost everything we use – except for toothpaste, anti-perspirant, and sunscreen – but I haven’t had a workshop day devoted to stocking up the essentials in a while, so I took some time before our Zoom workshop in February to make the base of...

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