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What else can I make anti-itching for Raymond? What about a solid scrub bar he can use in the shower? This is a product I’ve made many times in the past – should I tweak it? SOLID SCRUB BAR FOR THE BODY 50% cocoa butter 20% mango, shea or other butter 3% cetyl alcohol 4%...
I love using mango butter in a solid scrub bar in the shower. It melts at body temperature, and it keeps its shape nicely. (For the original post on the solid scrub, click here.) If you have normal to oily skin, feel free to use 20% mango butter – if you have dry skin, consider...
Love your feet! It’s sandal season and you know your feet are going to take a beating. So let’s modify our solid scrub bar to give our feets a treat (yeah, poor English, but it rhymes!) So how is this going to be different than Friday’s scrub bar? For your feet you’ll want something heavier,...
Solid scrub bars are a fantastic way to get the exfoliating and moisturizing action of a sugar scrub in the portability of a bar (as Homer notes, the only way to get the awesome power of food is in a bar format, only ours won’t contain Chinese newspapers). Solid scrub bars are really modifications of...