There are new additions to the lip line for Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s makeup collection for Marks & Spencer and they are […]The post Ro ...
I can’t say I’m too fond of the ’90’s style revival that’s in full swing right now. Chokers make my chin look ...
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One of the only loyalty cards I use regularly is the Boots one as the points really do build up. It’s now become a bit of a tradition for me ...
Wow, it\'s been busy over on the new blog!On Saturday, I shared my new e-book, Shampoo Bars You Will Love: Creating pH Balanced Bars, as well as a sho ...
What\'re you doing over here when we\'ve been having great fun making pH balanced shampoo bars over on the new blog" I see you accessing the old formu ...
Join us over on the new blog this week as I share a duplication of the Lush Jumping Juniper shampoo bar, a post all about sodium coco sulfate (SCS), a ...
The end of the month is always super busy around the blog as I get the e-zine ready and make sure I\'ve answered all the questions posed to me by subs ...
I\'m so excited to share this month\'s e-zine that every $10 subscriber to the blog gets this month! Beyond Emulsifying Wax, part two: Modifications a ...
I\'m still writing up a storm over on the new blog, sharing more than 10,000 words a week or the equivalent of 50 pages of a novel, because I\'m havin ...
We\'re having tons of fun working with cucumber hydrosol, liquid extract, powdered extract, and seed oil! So far we\'ve made...An anhydrous body bu ...
This week on the blog we saw people enjoying the new e-Zine "Beyond Emulsifying Wax", many users switched over to direct subscriptions on the blog rat ...
Just a reminder that I\'m not updating posts or responding to this blog any more. You can find most of the posts from here over on the new blog and we ...
I think last week was the last digest of posts as it can take upwards of two hours to gather all the information necessary to create one, and given ho ...
Wow, so much has happened over the last week! As I mentioned in last week\'s digest, I\'ve had to cancel my attendance at the Handcrafted Soap & Co ...
I\'ve been having such great fun sharing micellar water formulas with you, as you can see from the list of posts for the last week! I\'ve had to stop ...
We\'ve been whipping up a storm of exfoliating foaming bath butters and micellar waters over on the new blog, so I hope you\'ll join me on the new blo ...
We\'re having fun over on the new blog creating exfoliating scrubs with jojoba beads!Suspending jojoba beads in foaming facial cleansers, including on ...
We?re continuing to move things over from the old blog to the new, so you can find things like the ingredients and emollients list under ?resources? o ...
Weekly digest, February 25th to March 3rd, 2018Welcome to this week\'s digest of posts! I\'m sharing what\'s been going on over at the new blog ...
Welcome to this week\'s digest of posts! I\'m sharing what\'s been going on over at the new blog with you on the old blog so those of you who receive ...
As you probably know, I?ve been down for most of the month with searing muscle spasms that make it hard to sit up, and although I?ve been working on a ...
As I might have warned you, I\'ve been going down rabbit holes and following my curiosity as I answer your questions and share formulas I\'ve been wor ...
Join me on the blog for a Valentine\'s Day roller ball massage oil made with essential or fragrance oils or even some sweetened flavour oils. (Nudge n ...
I\'ve been having a blast playing with all kinds of surfactants and thickeners over the last 18 months, and I\'m getting ready to share them with you ...
I\'m sorry I haven\'t written more this week, but my lower back/hip has been killing me, making it hard to sit up or even balance my laptop on my knee ...
I\'m having such great fun sharing those things I\'ve learned falling down rabbit holes as I research some of the questions you\'ve posed or ingredien ...
Welcome to the digest for the new blog for January 27th to February 2nd, 2018. As you\'ll see, I\'ve had a super busy week thanks to my new contacts! ...
It\'s been a slightly slower week for posts as I\'ve been working like a demon to get the new e-zine, Botanical Extracts, part two: Oil soluble extrac ...
Yay! Voyageur Soap & Candle has just posted the schedule for the next few months! We have some one off classes planned - Valentine\'s Day, Mother\'s D ...
I\'m finally feeling better and posting like silly over on the new blog! I\'m so happy to share one of my new favourite ingredients, Varisoft EQ 65, a ...
Ick, Raymond and I have both been down with something awful this week - not quite the flu as that feels like you\'re going to die, not quite a cold as ...
Wow, we\'re having a great time on the new blog! The comments sections are jumping: I encourage you to come on over and join the discussions!Here a ...
I\'ve been getting a lot of questions about this blog and the new site, so I thought I\'d address them here.1. This blog isn\'t going anywhere. What y ...
Do you love oils" Sure, we all do! That\'s why I wrote this e-zine about more of my favourite oils and butters! Join me for some fun learning about an ...
I thought I\'d share a digest of all the links for what\'s going on over at the new blog! I\'m so excited by all the comments and discussions we\'r ...
Do you love oils" Sure, we all do! That\'s why I wrote this e-zine about more of my favourite oils and butters! Join me for some fun learning about an ...
I\'ve been working on this formula for quite some time, and I\'m happy to finally unveil it. Check out the post on the new blog! ...
Today, on the new blog I\'m sharing my formula for making a solid bubble bath bar suitable for more humid climates using less glycerin and more glycol ...
As I mentioned in this post, we have a new website and blog! I\'ll be doing all my writing over there from now on, and I\'ll post links to that work f ...
As I mentioned in this post, we have a new website and blog! I don\'t plan to abandon this blog, but I will be doing all my writing over there f ...
As I mentioned in yesterday\'s post, I\'ve more than 400 new ingredients - not including micas, colourants, glitters, fragrance oils, or essential iol ...
2017 was a brutal year as we continued to grieve the loss of my mom.Despite the pain, I had some amazing experiences at the 2017 HSCG conference as a ...
As we all do as December winds down, I\'ve been thinking about this year.I posted 187 posts on the blog this year as of December 28th. (Some of these ...
I\'m so excited about the December 2017 e-zine available to $10 Patreon subscribers all about oils & butters, something I\'ve called Emollients you wi ...
Join me today at 1 pm PST or 4 pm EST on the Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetics Guild\'s members discussion page on Facebook as we make some conditioner and ...
A very merry Christmas to you and yours from Raymond, Sasja, and me. As you know, it\'s been a very tough year for our little family, but it\'s gettin ...
As we all know, Christmas is coming on Monday, so I\'ll send out the e-books for which you donate as soon as I can during the hours I\'m awake until t ...
I realized I haven\'t posted any links to articles I\'ve written in Handmade Magazine for a while, so I thought I\'d share all the ones I could find t ...
If you can\'t think of what to get the crafters in your life, consider giving a gift card to a local supplier so they can take a class! There are so m ...
I\'m super excited to be offering a Facebook live event in the Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetic Guild members\' discussion group December 27th at 1 pm PST ...
Yesterday, we took a look at how changes in oils and preservatives might impact a lotion. What else could be an issue here"Fragrance and essential oil ...
In the November 2017 Q&A on Patreon, Marta wrote, I made your Silken Vanilla Latte Body Butter (Simusol 165) a month ago without any substitutions and ...
Let\'s analyze a potential formula here to see if I can include all the ingredients I want. In yesterday\'s post, we set out a list of things to consi ...
On November 27th, we started this review of cosmeceuticals by looking at different definitions. On Sunday, December 3rd we established different ...
Please note, if you have donated for e-books or purchased an e-zine, I send them out Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm Pacific Standard Time, except ...
We spent a great deal of time trying to define the idea of "cosmeceutical" and "active" in this post, so let\'s get to the next parts of the questi ...
As I mentioned in this post, Huge news that will affect the blog, I miss is being a part of a community of creators, connecting with people who love t ...
In the October Q&A on Patreon, Michelle asked: I am loving the latest e-zines with all the lovely cosmeceuticals. I am wondering what exactly is ...
We took a look at various pH meters yesterday, so let\'s ask the most important question of all today -Â Do you need a pH meter"Â And what\'s the ...
I\'ve been talking a lot about testing the pH of our products as it\'s so important when we start using different surfactants, conditioners, and activ ...
The other day, we spent some time getting to know each of the ingredients I like for this lotion, so let\'s make the darned thing already!As an aside, ...
This is a big announcement but...this is my job now. I know, right" Terrifying, but necessary. As much as I loved my job as a family counsellor, I was ...
Yeah, as a former English major, I love a good alliteration, but these are some of my favourite ingredients with one of my favourite new emulsifiers, ...
Yesterday, we made some suggestions for gifts you could give to your favourite crafter. I can\'t believe I forgot all about mixers! Click here for ...
Everyone I know tells me it\'s hard to shop for me as I make everything I want, so I thought I\'d share a list of things you could buy for the bath & ...
In the September Patreon Q&A, Sally asked: How can i make a shower gel concentrate" Â I want to be able I want to make a large batch using some sci ...
I have removed all the charts I created for oils, butters, preservatives, and more as well as all the free PDF tutorials and handouts as I\'m tired of ...
In the November Q&A on Patreon, Sawyer asked: Are there limits to how much carbomer can be used in a oil in water face cream" It seems to be a common ...
In the November Q&A on Patreon, Ingrid asked: I understand the heat and hold process when making lotions and creams. Can you please tell me if I do th ...
In the Q&A thread for October on Patreon, Lisa asked: I?m trying to emulsify silicones and oils. They keep separating. No water phase. Just silicones ...
Is it" It\'s not even Hallowe\'en yet! But for us crafty types, we need to start planning early! If you\'re a soaper, your busy season started in Augu ...
We\'ve had some fun with coffee butter over the last month. We made a whipped vanilla latte coffee butter for National Coffee Day in September, and ma ...
Check out this quick, cold emulsifier lotion using coffee butter! (I\'m not able to type much due to my arm injury, so please do a search for the ingr ...
A few weeks ago, we met this new gelling ingredient, Siligel  I\'ve made a gel with it and magnesium chloride, often called "magnesium oil" as it c ...
Leave in conditioners that you find on this blog are supposed to be thin enough to spray from a mister bottle. (That\'s the one on the far right.) I\' ...
Thank you all so much for your lovely and thoughtful words about my recent post about taking a break. I feel so honoured that you think so kindly abou ...
In this post, Using black cocoa butter in emulsified scrubs, Vintage Blue asked: If I\'m reading this right the preservative goes into the mix before ...
This is a neat new gelling agent that\'s considered green, eco-friendly, and natural. Siligel (INCI: Xanthan Gum (and) Lecithin (and) Sclerotium Gum ( ...
In this post, Newbie equipment, Chinny asked: What are the cup-like things in the second picture" I guess they are heat proof"They are! These are tri- ...
Hi everyone! I\'m up to mid-September in the comments, and I continue to work through them. Thanks for your patience. A few thoughts: Why does ever ...
In September Q&A for Patreon, Jaime asked: How on does May Lindstrom\'s Honey Mud cleanse your skin without a surfactant" Ingredients: Raw Honey w/Bee ...
I\'m super excited to share my new e-zine, Shiny Things, volume 1: Ingredients that distracted me. In this month\'s e-zine, chock full of new ingredie ...
Let\'s get formulating with coffee butter! We met this interesting ingredient yesterday, and I think we can make some luxurious whipped butters good e ...
I can\'t believe I haven\'t posted about the classes at I\'m teaching at Voyageur Soap & Candle in Surrey, B.C., starting on Monday!We\'ll have mor ...
I admit it: I don\'t like coffee. My parents were very British, and we were a family of tea drinkers, so I didn\'t get much exposure to coffee until m ...
Oh my gosh, did we have fun at Windy Point Soap in Calgary! The classes were so much fun - we had a blast playing with new ingredients like  coffee ...
The class schedule at Voyageur Soap & Candle is up for anyone who wants to take classes with me in Surrey, B.C. in October.We\'ll be doing the day lon ...
Hi everyone! I\'m off to Windy Point Soap in Calgary to teach some classes, and posting here can be difficult as the Blogger app crashes constantly an ...
For a while there, it seemed like honeyquat smelled like dead plastic fish and I couldn\'t use it in anything, even things that had loads of fragrance ...
In the September Q&A on Patreon, Allison asked: I recently read an article on the blog for Majestic Mountain Sage where they advocate what they refer ...
In September\'s Q&A on Patreon, Doris asked: Does "safe for color-treated hair" on shampoos have any real meaning" Â Are there any common surfactant ...
In this post on Spectrastat G2, Ally D shared, So far I have had success with this in my shampoos. However, at 1% usage (recommended usage is 1-1.2 ...
When I find a new ingredient, I do a search of all the materials on my computer or iPad, then I look for prototype formulas to give me an idea of what ...
