Gina

I lit one of these  little candles last night an guess what I did.  Yeap I went to bed and forgot to blow it out.  This morning when I came in the office it was still burning low but steady.  This was 12 hours later.  Very impressive I decided.

Part of an article taken from Sponifier Magazine. Article written by Eric Spense 2011.

• 100 gram Bar of Soap Recipe
• 5 Minute Minderal Makeup
• Apricot Conditioner
• Avocado Lip Balm
• Basic Mild Shampoo
• Bath and Spa Products
• Bath Bombs
• Body Butter
• Cream Gel for Dry Skin with Papaya Fruit
• Creams with Aromulse or AS102
• Creamy Hair Conditioner
• Create your own Mineral Makeup
• Eye Products
• Face Masks
• Facial Toners
• Foaming Bath Butter
• Formulary Creams
• Hair Butter
• Hair Growth Tonic
• Hair Tonic For Him
• How To Understand Preservatives and their Actions
• Instructions for making mineral makeup.
• Jojoba Cream
• Lavender Bath Oil
• Lip Stick Made From Our Base
• Lipstick Base Recipes
• Lotions, Creams and Emulsions
• Make A Simple Lip Gloss
• Making a Jumbo Lip Pencil
• Making Balms
• Making Perfume
• Making Perfumes
• Making Your Own Lip Products
• Massage Bar Recipe
• Mineral Make-up in 5 Minutes
• Penny's Favorite Lotion
• Products for Baby
• Shampoo for Dry Hair
• Shaving Cream For Him
• Simple Avocadp Cream
• Tinted Body Lotion with Shimmer
• Tooth Paste made naturally
• Vitamin Enriched Shampoo with Botanicals
• Water Dispersible Bath Oils
• What you need to know about making hair care products.
• Wood Polish

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Bring out the beauty of your wood furniture with this moisturizing and conditioning wood polish. Rub onto wood in cirucluar motions and then wipe clean with a soft rag. Lightly scent with essential oils. Never use essential oils undiluted on your wood furniture as they will strip the surface!

Instructions

1. Melt the waxes and olive oil on the stove top
2. Add your essential oil and mix well
3. Pour into a wide mouth jar and let set till hard

Water dispersible bath oils are very easy to make. They have the great advantage over regular bath oil because they mix through the water. The oils cover your body rather than floating on top of the water. When you get out of the tub you can just gently pat yourself dry and there is no need to apply lotion. Best of all, the lovely fragrance of the perfume oils carry you through the day or night.
To make any oil water dispersible you add 10-20% of Polysorbate 80 and mix them well. For example:

If you are not a person that takes baths these oils can be applied directly to your skin after getting out of the shower. When you massage them onto the skin they mix with the water. Lightly Pat yourself dry. Don’t forget the man in your life. This is a great way for him to combat dry skin without having to apply a heavier lotion.
Here are some useful tips when making up these oils

• It’s always a good idea to mix an anti-oxidant into a bath oil formula to keep your vegetable oils from going rancid and your essential oils from deteriorating. I recommend Vitamin E or Rosemary Oleoresin.
• If you are going to color the oils make sure your colorant is “oil soluble” or it won’t mix in.
• Package the oils in either glass bottles or PET plastic. Some plastics start to collapse when they have oil in them and the essential oils “leach out” through the plastic.
• I use a higher percentage of essential oils in my bath oils. Usually you only need add one capful of oil to a tub of water. I usually use about 20ml of essential oil per liter of oil.
• Since there is no water added to the oils you do not need a preservative.
• You can add other ingredients such as lecithin to your oils for extra skin conditioning
• I’ve seen some nice layered bath oils. These are achieved by adding ingredients that don’t mix with oil such as Glycerin or Honey. Shake them up before adding them to the bath. If you add these ingredients you still need no preservative as they have their own anti-microbial properties.

Sheer Mineral Powder Warm Beige

 This will make 30 grams by weight or the equivalent to 6 x 10 gram powder jars. We suggest our powder pots with sponges to best avoid inhaling loose particles when applying the powder.

This recipe is for loose mineral makeup using your own iron oxides rather than a pre-blended base. Micas help give your skin a healthy glow.

You can use a mortar and pestle to mix and grind the ingredients or an electric mixer. We also sell a small hand blender that may be used. I have found the best mixers for small amounts are electric coffee grinders. They have enough power to truly mix the powders.

Note for ease of measuring we supply two sizes of scoops. Our small scoop is equal to 1/16 of a tsp and our large scoop is equal to ¼ tsp.

Blend these ingredients well using a mortar or our spatulas . Make sure there are no streaks of color. See our blending instructions . You can test it by smearing it on white paper.

Add Part 1 to Part 2 and blend well.

Fill Powder Jars.

Appearance: Off White Creamy 

The addition of Lamesoft™ aids in the replacement of natural fats that are stripped from the hair from washing. The addition of Honey helps add moisture. Guar Quat aids in contioning, wet combing and thickening of the product. I have not added oils to this formula as oil will generally cut down on the foam produced by a shampoo. Lipsoft with help regulate the foam in addition to thicken the product.
Note: to add fragrance or essential oils mix equal parts fragrance and Polysorbate 20 with your oil and then add it to the water. Generally never add more than 5% fragrance to any product. Less is best. Deduct the amount of fragrance and Polysorbate 20 added from you water content. For example if you add 10ml of fragrance to your water deduct 10 ml of water from the total formula.

Instructions

This shampoo may be made in a single stove top or microwave safe vessel.

1. Measure your purified (preferably distilled water) into a clean container and heat to warm. Sprinkle in the Guar Quat and let sit or mix till completely disolved. Next add your,  potassium Sorbate. When it’s dissolved then mix in your honey and lactic acid.  
2. Mix  in by hand ,  Clear Surfactant Base,  and Botanicals. Do not use a whipping blender as you do not want to incorporate air into your product.
3. Decant into a clean container.

High Quality Mineral Makeup need not cost you a small fortune.
We have put this recipe together specifically for our small battery operated hand mixer. This will loosely fill approximately

• 1 60 gram pot
• 2 30 gram pots
• 3 10 gram pots
• 2 powder dispensing brushes

There is no need to pre-blend your pigments with a base. Our mixer easily blends the mixture in 2 minutes. I turn the mixture upside down every so often and shake it as I am mixing to make sure all the powders are well mixed.

Instructions: Measure all your ingredients into the clear pot that screws on to the mixture. Screw on the lid tightly and turn on the button. Mix for at least one full minute. If the final color needs adjusting as your pigment as needed. Use just a tiny, tiny pinch at a time to adjust.
Variations:

• For a more ivory tone add a small pinch of yellow
• For a darker skin tone add a pinch of black
• For a rosier complexion add a pinch of red
• For a sallow complexion use a scoop of tan with a pinch of brown

These are suggestions and each person may need to make further adjustments to suit their own complexions.

a Luxurious Water Dispersible Bath Oil

“Blooming” water dispersible bath oils are easy and simple to make. Generally you need only add a capful to the bath tub so the amount of essential oil that you add it higher at a rate of 10%. Choose any base oil that you want to mix the perfume in. Generally it will be a single or mixture of liquid vegetable oils such as Sweet Almond, Apricot, Olive, Avocado or Calendula. By adding Polysorbate 80 to the base oil it makes it “water dispersible”. Polysorbate 80 is a mild safe vegetable derived oil dispersant. Rather than have an oil slick floating on top of you bath water the emollient oils mix through the water and coat your skin. The oil will be on your skin rather that the tub so clean up is easy. After you get out of the tub pat yourself dry with your towel. Your skin will be soft and lightly perfumed. There is no need for lotion or cream.

Bath Oil in the Shower

If you don’t take baths but prefer a shower you may still take advantage of the water dispersible bath oil. After you have showered sprinkle a small amount onto you hand and massage into the skin. Pat yourself dry with a towel. The oils will mix with the water on your skin.
Here’s a simple formula for making a bath oil:

Instructions

1. Blend all ingredients together.