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Squee! We’re travelling abroad!

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EEEEE! I can’t believe we’re leaving today! First, we’re off to Liverpool, England, where my parents were born to visit family and scatter my mom’s ashes. At the end of the month, we’re off to London to meet up with Jane Barber (of Making Skincare and one of my partners in crime at Learn Cosmetic Formulation) … Read more

Welcome to March 2019

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Welcome to March with its miserable Smarch weather*. Where I live in the Fraser Valley, B.C., this means rain rain rain and more rain. I don’t mind it as we get all kinds of lovely flowers, including amazing cherry blossoms, but my hair requires so much anti-frizz spray to keep it from being unmanageable! It’s … Read more

Has it been 10 years already?

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Happy anniversary, blog! Today is the 10th anniversary of the date I consider to be the starting point of the blog, the day I started writing exclusively about creating bath & body products. If you had told me on February 28, 2009, that this little blog would lead to a life of writing and teaching … Read more

Non-subscribers and $1, $3, and $5 subscribers! Check out the new e-zine – Learning to formulate: Creating less greasy lotions

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PLEASE NOTE: If you’re a $10 subscriber and want to download the coupon for the e-zine, please visit this post to obtain your coupon code. That is the only place you can find the coupon code.  Since I’m calling this Learn to Formulate February, it only seemed appropriate that we should continue this theme into … Read more