fragrance

Smell Ho! Why does using a fragrance oil with vanilla make our products brown? (part five)

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Four vials of lotion sit on a table. The first two have a brown/beige colour. The third is almost a bright white. The fourth is a lighter beige colour. Used to illustrate the impact of vanilla on a formula.

Welcome to a new part in the series on fragrance oils series that you can always find in the fragrance oils part of the site, found under the “ingredients” tab in the menu bar. In today’s post, let’s take a closer look at why our products might get a little brown when using a fragrance...

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Discussion: Dessert- and sweet-themed fragrances are in this year! What are your favourite fragrances for this summer? And find links to some of my favourite formulas!

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Finally, it’s my time to shine! I love food-related fragrance oils, and they’re all the rage this year! Read about this a bit in Forbes. (Warning: It is full of pop ups and ads and distracting things.) The yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for normal to oily hair you see below smelled of Tropical Meringue...

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Q&A: Can I make up batches of product and scent it later? How do I do that? And a disclaimer on how much fragrance oil to use in a formula!

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Original post from November 16, 2010… An e-mail question came in asking this question…Can I make up batches of lotion and scent them later? What about things like body wash? The answer to this is simple. Yes. I’ll make up a large batch of lotion with all the ingredients, except the fragrance oils, and store...

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Last minute, easy, and festively impressive Christmas crafting: Creating reed diffusers (plus #alltheingredients: NATRA Reed Diffuser base

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Smell Ho! Let’s talk about fragrance & essential oils: Other things to consider when shopping for or using fragrance oils (part four)

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Welcome back to part four – the final part – of this short series on using fragrance and essential oils! In part one, we took a look at some things to consider when using fragrance and essential oils, and how much we might use in a product. In part two, we took a look at...

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