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Hand care set: mild liquid soap and nourishing cream
Because your hands deserve the best Treat your mitts to ultra-hydrating care with this super pair: a DIY liquid hand soap and nourishing cream. Formulated with high quality ingredients, our liquid soap cleans your hands without stripping them of their natural oils, while our nourishing cream protects them and provides relief for dry skin. This perfect pair promises to leave you with clean, soft, hydrated hands! Recipe 1: How to make liquid hand soap Ingredients Phase A 36 g (15%) orange blossom (neroli) hydrosol or demineralized water 14.4 g (6%) vegetable glycerin 4 g (1.5%) xanthan gum Phase B 96 g (40%) decyl glucoside Phase C 13 g (5.5%) castor…
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Power Gel: The shower gel for a hundred smiles per hour
The power of the perfect lather Our latest shower gel recipe has the power to win you over! It produces a lovely, creamy lather, deeply hydrates your skin, and contains no chemical products. Now that’s what we call a Power Gel! With its neutral formula, it will both cleanse and hydrate your skin. What’s more, this DIY shower gel is so easy to make! You can even tailor it to your tastes and needs. We provide guidance on which vegetable oils and scents are best suited for your skin type, so that your homemade shower gel will be just right for you. Isn’t DIY empowering? Now are you convinced? Then…
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Skin ’n’ Tonic: a cocktail for glowing skin
Say goodbye to dull complexions with this DIY lotion Has winter left your skin looking a little lacklustre? You’re not alone! The cold and reduced daylight hours over long, snowy months have left many a complexion weary. Good news, though! We have the perfect pick-me-up: Skin ’n’ Tonic, a homemade face lotion featuring a cocktail of revitalizing ingredients to give your skin the boost it needs to glow again. In developing this natural lotion recipe, we opted for ingredients with toning, revitalizing, and comforting properties—including a skin-brightening orange peel powder infusion and soothing chamomile hydrosol. Xanthan gum and Olivem 1000 combine to give it a delicate gel-like texture that…
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This recipe has us crying out Olé for Oleogel!
This homemade oleogel brightens dull complexions If you’re not yet familiar with oleogels, get ready to fall in love. A light, versatile skincare product, they can be used as a face serum year-round, or even replace your face cream or lotion in the summer months. When we finally perfected our very first oleogel recipe, COCOÉCO headquarters erupted in cheers: Hooray! Bravo! Olé for Oleogel! But what exactly is in an oleogel, you ask? Oleogels are composed of aloe gel (to hydrate, comfort, and revitalize your complexion), vegetable oil (to nourish and soften your skin), preservatives (to preserve your precious product, of course), and active ingredients (for that extra oomph!). We…
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This DIY lotion gives combination skin Simple Symmetry
This lotion is a poem for your complexion Oily mien shining too bright / your dryness is also a blight / what immortal hand or eye / could revive thy Simple Symmetry? With all our apologies to William Blake… Combination skin is not always easy for us mere mortals to manage! People with a combination complexion often have an oily T-zone—that is, forehead, nose, and chin—but dry or normal skin elsewhere on their face. For proper skin care, you need a product that controls oily skin without drying out dry areas. Happily, there’s Simple Symmetry! This balancing homemade face lotion is specially formulated for combination skin. One of its key…