Formulas

Formula

Creating an awesome shaving bar for my gorgeous husband, Raymond, that would work as a hair or body conditioning bar (part one, initial formula) 

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Waaaay back in Winter 2019 – in the Before Times – I taught a conditioner bar class at Voyageur Soap & Candle and shared this formula as a solid conditioner bar, shaving bar, or body conditioning bar formula. We made some changes based on the ingredients we had at hand* – you’ll see those shortly...

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Blast from the past: Emulsified sugar scrubs (aka body polishes) with a base formula and so many links!

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May 18, 2023: With summer coming, I know we’re all thinking about exfoliating and scrubbing and doing all kinds of moisturizing, so here’s my long post on emulsified scrubs! You can make with all sorts of exfoliants – sugar, salt, pumice, jojoba beads, walnut shells, and anything else you like! It’s super simple – melt,...

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Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part four): The formula and process! 

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Welcome back to this four part series in which we’re making a shampoo filled with a veritable botanical bounty of fantastic ingredients for normal to oily hair! In part one, Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part one): Overview and choosing surfactants!, we looked at what it meant to...

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Linkorama! All the links to liquid shampoo formulas on this site!

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One of the very first products I made was a shampoo to help with my very oily hair, and I fell in love with making hair care products at that moment. I’ve made so many in the last 14 years, and here they are! You’ll see the e-books I’ve written on the topic at the...

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#alltheingredients: Poly Suga Quat L-1010P (INCI: Polyquaternium 78) with formulas!

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This conditioning ingredient profile appeared in its original form in the e-book, Shiny things, volume 3: Things that distracted me, issued in November 2019. This is is the kind of material I share in these e-books – ingredient profiles, emollient profiles, other profiles along with formulas to show you how to use them.  Many are exclusive...

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