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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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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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A DIY deodorant for Natural ExStinktion
An all-natural deodorant recipe to keep BO under control It’s tricky to come up with a natural deodorant that provides you with long-lasting, effective protection. We wanted our latest deodorant recipe to be made with 100% natural ingredients and gentle on the delicate skin of your underarms—but above all, we wanted it to really work! This means the deodorant has to be able to kill the bacteria responsible for the smells we associate with sweat. And so we came up with Natural ExStinktion, an environmentally friendly way to fight off bacteria, wipe out BO, and keep your underarms dry all day! This creamy, high-performance deodorant works through the combined effects…
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This deodorant recipe will leave you Pit Perfect!
This homemade deodorant is gentle on your skin but tough on smells! It happens to us all: at some point over the course of the day, you notice an unpleasant odour beginning to seep out from your armpits… That darn deodorant has let you down again! Now, you’ll have to spend the rest of the day with your upper arms glued to your body, like a human T-Rex. It’s cute for a moment, but it gets boring pretty quickly. So instead, why not opt for this homemade deodorant recipe? It’ll leave you smelling Pit Perfect! It will last all day, won’t irritate your skin, and will prevent you from turning…
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A homemade soap that says, “Spring is Sprung!”
A DIY soap that’s as pretty as a May meadow Every year, it’s the same story. When winter first arrives, we gush over each fresh snowflake, but by February, the frosty season starts to feel like it’s dragging on. Especially here, with our famous Québec winters that last half the year. So, as soon as a ray of sunshine breaks through the clouds, a tiny bud appears, or the mercury inches above zero, we at Coop Coco joyfully cry out, “Spring is Sprung!” It’s our little way of passing the time patiently until spring really comes. And this cold process soap recipe is our homage to these exclamations we let…