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Super quick, super easy products for gift giving: Emulsified foot scrub bars!

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Three foot scrub bars - oval bars made with various butters and pumice - sit under a pink violet.

I thought I’d share some of my favourite, easy-to-make, quick, inexpensive formulas you might want to sell or give as gifts this year. You can find the original formula in this post – One ingredient, five products: Stearic acid in foot scrub bars! I’ve modified it quite a bit since I shared it then.  My...

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Super quick, inexpensive products: Lip scrubs!

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I thought I’d share some of my favourite, easy-to-make, quick, inexpensive formulas you might want to sell or give as gifts this year. I’m starting with one of my favourites – this really easy lip scrub!  One of the easiest and fastest products you’ll ever make are these lip scrubs, based on the ones from...

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Q&A: Do we need to add extra preservative to an exfoliating scrub to cover the extra exfoliants?

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In the monthly Q&A, JimmieTF asked, Hi Susan, I’ve made 2 sugar scrub bases, one with sodium cocoyl isethionate or SCI (it’s thick like syrup, so it does not separate) and one with SCS (sodium coco sulfate), and both of course have a preservative in them. Optiphen Plus (INCI: Phenoxyethanol (and) Caprylyl Glycol (and) Sorbic...

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Happy holidays! Download a creamy foaming exfoliating cleanser & scrub with gorgeous extracts from my spa day class at Windy Point Soap Making Supplies! 

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This is a decadent creamy facial and body cleanser we made at our first spa day class at Windy Point Soap Making Supplies in autumn 2018, one I make regularly today for my face and body because it’s just so creamy and cleansing and moisturizing. Leaving my skin feeling soft and conditioned without being tight...

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Q&A: What can we do to make the floor less slippery after using an emulsified scrub?

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In this month’s Q&A, Eliza asked, I’ve just prescribed with your blog😊. I am working on emulsified body sugar scrubs. I have tried your recipe emulsified scrub with BTMS. I love the feeling of the skin after this scrub, it’s moisturised and supple. I love this emulsifier on a skin. But the shower floor is quite...

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