by Kirsty | July 24, 2019 | Hair Products, Recipes & Tutorials
Myself and my family have been testing various shampoo bar recipes for literally months. We’ve had more than a few duds (a bar that turned to mushy goop as soon as it gets wet, or the bar with un-melted SCI noodles that look like worms to name a few) But now we...
by Kirsty | July 11, 2019 | Lotions, Recipes & Tutorials
REPOSTED 11 July 2019 This recipe was originally posted on our website waaay back in June 2015. Following some recent media coverage on how caffeine powder can be highly toxic and even deadly when ingested in large doses (which it absolutely is!), we thought...
by Kirsty | July 3, 2019 | Bath Fizzies & Soaks, Recipes & Tutorials
Ingredients Powders420g (51.5%) baking soda210g (26%) citric acid130g (16%) epsom salts14g (1.7%) white kaolin clay8g (1%) colloidal oatmeal Oils12g (1.5%) cocoa butter12g (1.5%) polysorbate 80 8g | 1% essential oil blend (3g lavender, 3g ylang ylang, 2g patchouli)...
by Kirsty | June 14, 2019 | Cold Process, Recipes & Tutorials, Soap
I was excited to receive my copy of Milk Soaps by Anne-Marie Faiola. I have all of her books, which I refer back to quite a lot, to come up with inspiration and soap ideas. I love using milk in soap, but in the past I’ve only tried goat’s milk, and more recently,...
by Kirsty | November 28, 2018 | News
We have just received some really bad news from our shipping agent. Originally they told us our fragrance shipment was due to arrive at the port of Auckland on the 12th of November. The 12th of November came and went and we were told that there had been a slight...
by Kirsty | October 11, 2018 | News
As some of you may already be aware the fragrance industry has been hit hard by two factory fires which destroyed raw materials used in manufacturing fragrance oils. Added to this we have the ever decreasing USD/NZD exchange rate, and to top it all off, rising fuel...
