Tag: skin care
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Top 5 Essential Oils for Beautifully Scented Soaps
One of the greatest joys of making your own soap is the ability to customize it with beautiful scents. Unlike commercial soaps that often rely on artificial fragrances and chemicals, handmade organic soaps can be scented naturally using essential oils. These plant-derived oils not only add wonderful aromas but also offer a range of skin…
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Cold Process Soapmaking
Cold process soapmaking is a rewarding and creative craft that allows you to create nourishing, beautiful bars of soap right in your kitchen. It involves mixing oils and lye (sodium hydroxide) to initiate the chemical reaction known as saponification, turning liquid ingredients into solid bars of soap. Unlike other methods, the cold process doesn’t involve…
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Essential Tools and Ingredients for Organic Soapmaking Beginners
Soapmaking is an ancient craft that has experienced a resurgence in recent years, especially among those seeking healthier, more natural alternatives to commercial products. While store-bought soap often contains synthetic additives that can irritate the skin or harm the environment, organic soap offers a gentler, eco-friendly solution. If you’re eager to try your hand at…
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The Benefits of Organic Soap: Why You Should Make the Switch
In today’s world, people are becoming increasingly aware of the ingredients in the products they use daily, and for a good reason. From food to cosmetics, the shift towards organic and natural alternatives is growing as consumers look for ways to minimize their exposure to chemicals. One area where this awareness is particularly important is…
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pH Made Simple – Understanding How pH Works With Skin Care Products
The pH in our skin determines how products are going to respond. pH determines the acidity or alkalinity on a scale of 0 to 14. Anything below 7.0 is acidic and anything above 7.0 is alkaline. Therefore, 7.0 is neutral which actually extends from 6.5 to 7.5. The pH scale is on a logarithmic scale…
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Important and Active Ingredients for Proper Skin Health
Important Active Ingredients Allantoin: Biogenic skin softener which accelerates healing and improves skin hydration Arabinoglactan (Galactoarabinan): Immune stimulating, anti-aging polysaccharide with gentle stimulating properties Collagen Amplifier System: Peptide based, stimulates collagen production Beta Glucan: Enhances skin immunity and wound closing, protects against UV damage and hydrates skin CoQ10: Helps energize new skin cell growth Decyl Polyglucoside:…
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pH Balance and Skin Care
What is pH? Acidic and basic are two extremes that describe chemicals, just like hot and cold are two extremes that describe temperature. Mixing acids and bases can cancel out their extreme effects, much like mixing hot and cold water can even out water temperature. A substance that is neither acidic nor basic is neutral.…
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Understanding Skin Care Ingredients
I was a beach bunny back in the day, long before there was sunscreen, you know the baby oil thing! Well, today my skin has shown signs of all that sun bathing. My skin was very damaged when I went back to school; however, by the time I graduated four months later, my skin had…
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Let Your Skin Tell You if A Skin Care Line Works
Skin Care Lines There is so much information out there about ‘this is good for you’ or ‘that is not.’ We get confused trying to figure out who is telling us the truth. Most of us are leery of advertisers any more because they misrepresent their claims — all for the bottom line. I know…