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I know you all know how much I love Lotioncrafter. Jen is a dear friend of mine, and quite the enabler when it comes to new, exciting ingredients! Her enthusiasm knows no bounds, and I’m honoured she shares her love of formulating with me! Have you checked out their site yet? It’s absolutely gorgeous and...
I love crafting so much! It’s such great fun to peruse my favourite ingredients suppliers’ shops to see what I could buy to make lovely things for my friends. I think about their skin type, hair type, favourite fragrances, much loved ingredients and those they hate, and so much more. This is also a very...
This November, I’m grateful for how awesome Lotioncrafter is and what a great friend I have in the owner, Jen! And Sasja’s thankful for Jen’s pups, whom she calls her cousins, Poppy and Winnie. I know it’s a dangerous thing for your wallet to tell you to pop on over to Lotioncrafter to take a...
Jen at Lotioncrafter is offering $10 subscribers a lovely coupon for October 2018 so you can get all kinds of wonderful and unique ingredients to make all kinds of wonderful and unique products! (I know I’m dying to get some NatraSil, a silicone replacement!) Oh, and that lovely mug is finally for sale! Woo! They’re...
Jen at Lotioncrafter is offering $10 subscribers a lovely coupon for September 2018 so you can get all kinds of wonderful and unique ingredients to make all kinds of wonderful and unique products! (I know I’m dying to get some NatraSil, a silicone replacement!) Oh, and that lovely mug is finally for sale! Woo! The...