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Castile soap: One product, endless uses
Three Castile soap recipes for a happy home Our whole team LOVES Castile soap: it’s so effective and multi-purpose! Our version of this gentle, natural soap is made from coconut and sunflower oil and, when used correctly, it can do everything from cleaning your floors, sinks, and work surfaces until they shine to gently washing babies’ delicate skin. It truly does it all! In this article, we’re sharing three great recipes featuring this wonder-soap, so you can learn how to use it if you don’t already or expand your Castile soap horizons if you do. 1. Mild baby soap How to make baby soap Ingredients Phase A 24 g (9.6%) vegetable…
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A DIY body scrub with plenty of perks
Get soft, nourished skin with this homemade body scrub Sometimes a scrub just ain’t enough: your skin longs for nourishment too! Enter our latest body scrub recipe, which foams up beautifully and cares for your skin, even as it rids it of dead cells. It’s all thanks to a winning combination of ingredients! Sugar and cranberry seeds provide exfoliation, while vegetable glycerin deeply hydrates your skin. Mango butter nourishes and protects it, and sodium coco-sulfate (SCS) ensures it lathers up beautifully. This easy-to-apply body scrub instantly boosts your well-being, while leaving your skin incredibly soft, smooth, and glowing. Read on to learn how to make your own! How to make…
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Enjoy your shave with this trio of products perfect for face or body use
The key to silky soft skin! Our shaving trio is specially formulated for the gentlest of shaves, free from irritation and discomfort. It’s more than gentle enough to be used on your face, while being perfectly adapted for body use too. It includes a light shaving foam to protect your skin from irritation, a soothing aftershave to comfort and soften your skin, and a beard oil to nourish whiskers, leaving beards and moustaches looking visibly healthier. With these three recipes, you can easily make a complete DIY shaving kit from the comfort of your home, and benefit from these wonder products every time you shave. Before you begin For all…
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10 golden rules for making your own products
There are so many benefits to making care and household products yourself: you save money, while ending up with beautiful natural products that are good for you and the environment. But there’s a lot to learn when you start out! With time, DIY becomes quite easy, you just need to pay careful attention to the trickier steps and get to know your ingredients and key techniques. If you take the time to learn and understand the basics when you start out, you’ll set yourself up for success and you’ll be free to experiment later. So today, we’re here to help you take your first steps on your journey into the…
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What is essential oil dispersant and how do you use it?
A few weeks ago, we shared a recipe for a revitalizing hair spray treatment… and one ingredient in particular caught your attention: essential oil dispersant. What is it? What does it do? Can you replace it with something else? We answer all these questions and more in our article—which includes our famous recipe for a rosemary-scented revitalizing hair treatment, plus three more! What is essential oil dispersant? This ingredient suspends essential oils and vegetable oils in an aqueous solution and prevents them from separating. It consists of a water-soluble head and an oil-soluble tail, so that it binds to both oil and water. A dispersant is therefore necessary when you…
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