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How to add better foam or lather to your homemade products
If you’re just starting out making your own soaps and cleansing products, you might be wondering how to get a lather as good as in the store-bought products you’re used to. DIY cleansers, effective as they are, don’t always produce quite as much foam… But we love a light, creamy lather that makes soaping up a pleasure! Homemade products CAN lather up great, though: it’s just a matter of formulating your recipe so that they do. If you’ve been disappointed in the foaming power of your DIY solid shampoo or homemade soap, you’re not alone! We’ve received a lot of messages recently asking us how to get a great lather…
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This homemade face mask has real Orange Appeal
This easy face mask recipe has a very appealing ingredient We don’t often associate the colour orange with beautiful skin. But the fruit is another matter! Did you know that bitter orange powder, made from the peel of bitter oranges, has a wealth of skin benefits? It cleanses and tones your complexion, leaving it with a healthy glow. So, we’ve come up with an ultra-easy face mask recipe to introduce you to the Orange Appeal! To make this face mask, you need just four ingredients. Bitter orange powder tones and exfoliates your complexion, while also adding radiance. Colloidal oatmeal softens and hydrates your skin, pink clay purifies and brightens it,…
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Let this DIY soap take your skin on a Honeymoon
Happiness and gentleness unite in this DIY soap with honey It’s time to take your skin on a Honeymoon… without leaving your house! How? With this homemade honey soap! Formulated for sensitive skin, it cleans gently, lathers up beautifully, and leaves your skin soft and delicately scented. It’s so wonderful, you’ll wish you could marry it. Though why not skip the ceremony and head straight to the Honeymoon? If you’ve never made soap with honey before, keep in mind that this ingredient speeds up trace. But don’t worry, we’ve carefully constructed our recipe so that it won’t be a problem here. Thanks to the high ratio of water to sodium…
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Learn how to make “My First Swirled Soap”
Set your sights on swirls! In the fabulous world of soapmaking, you can create homemade soaps of all kinds, colours, and shapes. You can tackle many exciting challenges, dream up recipes, and try out new combinations! Of course, when you’re just beginning, it’s not easy to know where to start. But we’re here to help you out! This article will teach you how to make “My First Swirled Soap”: a cold process soap recipe that unravels the mysteries of creating lovely swirls in your DIY soaps. The pattern is beautifully simple and easy to achieve. You can of course change the colours, scents, or even the number of hues. Feel…
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How to prevent scent from fading in homemade soaps
Has this ever happened to you? A month ago, you made a divine, summer-scented soap. But now that your soap has cured, your wonderful coconut-orange-pineapple creation smells like… nothing at all! It’s not always easy to keep your homemade soaps smelling strong. A number of influencing factors may cause scent to fade, if not disappear, over time. Luckily, there are solutions! That’s why we decided to put our many years of soapmaking to good use and share all our secrets for making scented soap and preventing that scent from fading! Trick #1: Use the right scents in your homemade soap. There are three kinds of notes in perfumery: Top notes,…
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