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Formula: Making a few Vick’s like products with essential oils for cold & flu season

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After sharing the post yesterday – Formula: Essential oil blend that might be like Saje’s Peppermint Halo Headache Remedy – Raymond remarked that we needed more of that Vick’s like jelly as one of us is bound to be sick sooner rather than later. Then I realized I hadn’t shared this with you, so it’s time...

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Formula: Essential oil blend that might be like Saje’s Peppermint Halo Headache Remedy

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I was leafing through my lab notebook today, and I came across these essential oil blends I made up some time in 2016 to smell a bit like the Peppermint Halo Headache Remedy by Saje. It seems like I need to use this one a lot lately… Their product, which is $29 for 10 ml!, contains peppermint...

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Experiments in the workshop: Emulsified sugar scrub variations – modifying the emulsifier

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I realized I was burning through a lot of these terms over the last two weeks, so I wanted to stop and take a look at what all this stuff we’ve been talking about means in terms of our products and our experiences as I think the best way to learn is to read something,...

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Experiments in the workshop: Emulsified sugar scrub variations – modifying the fatty alcohol

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Last week, we took a look at making this luscious emulsified scrub with tucuma butter & babassu oil. Today, let’s look at a few ways we could modify it! Let’s take some of the concepts we discussed in today’s other post – Defining some cosmetic chemistry terms: Spreadability, play time, cushion, drag, and melt point –...

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Experiments in the workshop: Emulsified sugar scrub with tucuma butter & babassu oil 

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I love emulsified scrubs so much! They’re relatively easy to make – melt, freeze, mix, package, use – and you can make so many changes to alter the skin feel and everything else! You’ll notice this formula is quite similar to the emulsified scrub bar I made back in July, and that’s because I wanted a...

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