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When you start out making bath & body products, we can get bumfuzzled by all the terms for different products, which makes it hard to figure out what to make. We might see a recipe and think we’d like to make that, only to find out that it isn’t what was promised or it was...
Yesterday we covered the basics of making products – what anhydrous means, what it means for something to be water soluble, and so on – so we’ll take a look at a few other ideas before resuming the Newbie Tuesday posts tomorrow. EMULSIFIERS You cannot mix oil soluble and water soluble ingredients without an emulsifier....
I’m thrilled by all the newbies visiting the blog eager to make products – welcome! Let’s start at the very beginning (which I’m told is a very good place to start), and take a look at some of the basics of making products based on the questions I’ve been seeing lately. Most of the products...
This lying in bed in pain thing is really working for me! I’ve created another visual tutorial, making whipped butters, which you can find on SnapGuide. I have a few more ideas, but I’d like to know what you think would work as a visual tutorial. Let me know!...
I do love my whipped butters! The feeling of whipped shea butter on my horribly dry skin in the winter or after a long and too sunny camping trip makes me so happy. It really is amazing how simple they are to make, but as with anything in the creation of bath and body products, it’s...