The Great American Soap Swap
Welcome to the Great America Soap Swap : A Community Game for Soap MakersEvery soap maker is welcome to join. You must be either aContinue Reading
2022-03-28
Water & Oil Emulsions Make Beautiful Hand Made Lotions
Body care lotions are made from part water and part oil. Anyone who has ever tried to combine the two knows that oils do notContinue Reading
2022-03-25
Preservatives ~ A breakdown for lotion & cosmetics
As a first step to making your own products, we highly recommend enrolling on our free online course (over 17,500 students) www.learncosmeticformulation.com which comes with a PDFContinue Reading
2022-03-25
The basics of DIY lotion to body butter creation
Let’s walk through how to make a natural lotion, cream, body butter and moisturizer from scratch. Lotions, creams, body butters and skin soothers areContinue Reading
2022-03-25
How to Identify Mold or Bacteria in Your DIY Lotions
Once you embark on the path of hand made lotion making you will undoubtedly become familiar with a handful of popular preservatives in the DIYContinue Reading
2020-08-22
Can I save lotion that has separated?
Today’s topic is about how to salvage a batch of DIY lotion that you thought was just about to come out perfect, only to findContinue Reading
2020-04-28
Making A Christmas Holiday Wreath from 4 lbs. of Pure Soap
The holidays are here and you may be looking for the next craft idea in your soap makers tool belt. Let’s not stop at allContinue Reading
2019-11-28
FREE Chocolate Body Butter Recipe
Get this Free printable recipe for the Number 1 most popular recipe published at Thermal Mermaid. Chocolate Coconut Body ButterContinue Reading
2019-10-09
On Golden Pond – All Natural Cold Process Soap
Let’s make an Autumn inspired New England Cold Process Soap using only natural colorants and essential oils. This is a purely luxury bar. – On Golden PondContinue Reading
2019-10-01