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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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This homemade shampoo provides Care 4 Curls
This DIY shampoo does wonders for type 4 hair (and types 2 and 3, too!) Each and every hair type has its own specific needs… and kinky hair is no exception! Afro-type hair is often very dry and requires specific products to nourish and hydrate it. Enter Care 4 Curls, a solid shampoo for kinky hair, commonly known as coily hair or type 4 in Andre Walker’s hair typing system. We specifically formulated this shampoo recipe for type 4, but it also works great for types 2 (wavy) and 3 (curly). We used one of our new products, moringa oil, in this homemade shampoo recipe. Moringa oil does marvels for…
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Turn your shower into a treat with these DIY shower steamers
Who says baths are the best way to relax? A soak in the tub is a marvelous way to de-stress, but what if you could turn your shower into a spa-worthy experience? Now you can, thanks to our latest creation: DIY shower steamers! You use these homemade steamers much like a bath bomb. Pop one into the corner of your shower, before turning it on. The humidity will cause the steamer to dissolve, releasing its wonderful scent, for an exhilarating aromatherapy experience complete with the benefits of essential oils. Tempted yet? Just wait until you hear how easy they are to make. The basic recipe calls for only three ingredients,…
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Dermocaustic and photosensitizing essential oils
Essential oils are great, but use them with caution! Essential oils are very useful ingredients in homemade care products. They confer benefits to your DIY cosmetics, while imparting their lovely scents. However, they can’t be used willy-nilly! It’s important to read up on the essential oils you want to use. Some are dermocaustic or photosensitizing, meaning that they can irritate your skin or make it sensitive to sunlight. You might be wondering why we use these essential oils in our recipes at all. Well, you can still use them as long as you take specific precautions and use them in the right products. As long as you stick to…
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Essential oil blend recipes
Our scent blends are now yours! If you’ve been following us for a few years, you probably know that we used to sell essential oil and aromatic essence blends, carefully crafted in our workshop, that you could use to scent your creations. As we no longer offer them, we thought it would be nice to share our natural scent blend recipes with you, so that you can make them yourself and add them to your candles, soaps, and creams. Perhaps these recipes will also inspire you to create your own blends… The possibilities are endless! For the sake of simplicity, the recipes below each yield 50 grams of scent blend,…
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