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If you’ve been following the Newbie Tuesday facial products series, you’ll know we’ve spent the last three months making various cleansers for our skin. Let’s take a look at making toners today. What’s a toner? It’s a liquid or gel that we apply after we clean our skin to make it feel nice. I’ve seen...
Two weeks ago we talked about adding chemical exfoliants in our cleansers: Today we’ll look at turning them into foaming facial products using these cute foamer bottles. Sorry for being a week late on this. As you know, things have been pretty awful around here and we’re still trying to figure out how to do...
Yay! The day is here! We’re creating a very basic facial cleanser recipe for each skin type, which you can try out, then modify it with all kinds of interesting ingredients over the next few days. Then we can get together next Tuesday to look at what you thought of the product and what changes...
Sorry for the delay in posting the ingredients you’ll want to get for the first few projects for our Newbie Tuesday facial products series. The plan is to make these products… Facial cleanser Foaming facial cleanser Exfoliating facial cleanser Micellar water Toner And three gels – a gelled toner, serum, and an eye gel We’ll...
I asked and you responded – let’s do a Newbie Tuesday series on facial products! Here are the products I’d like to make! – Facial cleanser – Micellar water – Creamy cleanser (like a lotion) – Moisturizer – Toner – Gels of all kinds – toner, serum, eye gel – Serum, including spot treatments We’ll...