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Newbie Tuesday: Learning how to read a formula and convert it into weighted measurements (updated)

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You cannot make good bath and body products using volume measurements. It is hard to scale the ingredients to make smaller or larger batches, and, in general, people assume that volume is the same as weight. It is not, and it is vital for the success of your recipes that you get this concept! HOW...

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A few thoughts about recipes…

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If you’re new to bath and body products, please don’t try to create a recipe when you’ve never made anything! (I’ve said it before, but I thought it bore repeating considering the e-mail I’ve been getting lately!)I know you want to put things in that recipe that sound cool or that you’ve just bought, but...

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Newbie Tuesday: Creating Christmas presents – bath bombs

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One of my first projects was making bath bombs. This is one of those things that can seem completely easy or unbelievably hard, and I’m not really sure why some people succeed so well at making them and others have so much trouble! One of the big issues is water – whether you’re adding it...

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Newbie Tuesday: Creating Christmas presents – bath salts! (updated)

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These are easy peasy to make – the key is to avoid the urge to add a ton of colouring because too much water in your bath salts can lead to bath rocks in a couple of days! No one wants a big ball of hardened bath salts for Christmas, except maybe your mom when...

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Newbie Tuesday: Creating Christmas presents – helpful hints!

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If you’ve never made a product before, start with something fairly foolproof this close to the holiday season. Our bath & body products generally need us to give them time to figure out what they will do over a long period of time – for instance, grow mold, turn brown thanks to the vanilla fragrance,...

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