Denise

About Denise

I'm a crazy goat lady who got into making my own soap with goat milk, found MMS to order supplies, and now I get to combine my love of creating skin care products with a job to pay the feed bill. I live in Alaska and greatly enjoy the unique aspects of my northern home - summer days when it never gets dark and the Northern Lights dancing above in winter. Favorite scents include Wild Mint and Ivy, Rhubarb & Sugar Cane, and Eucalyptus Spearmint.
Discover the ancient art of Feng Shui with this harmonious blend of bamboo and cedar entwined with lemon, tangerine, and ginger. Exotic, cooling, and refreshing. The men on staff loved this one, and the women took home samples for their honeys. I particularly love how Elements of Bamboo performs in […]

Fragrance Friday: Elements of Bamboo

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I’ve been playing with Wheat Germ Oil in different formulations. I’ve made a salve for rough hands and some soap featuring Wheat Germ Oil. Have you read about wheat germ? With the content of beta carotene and Vitamin E, this oil is great for soaps, lotions, and other skincare products. […]

Lip Balm with Wheat Germ Oil

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There’s something so delicious about a good coconut fragrance, and our Coconut Cream Fragrance Oil does not disappoint. We have some big coconut fans on staff, and they go nuts over anything coconut. This fragrance is worth all the hoopla. The sweet scent of fresh coconut has accent notes of […]

Fragrance Friday: Coconut Cream

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My husband works outdoors all day, and his hands get very rough, especially in winter. In an effort to help him with that problem, I crafted this balm. Beeswax and Cocoa Butter form the brittle part of this balm, but not too much. I want this balm to soak into […]

Balm for Rough Hands

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What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word massage? For me, it’s relaxation. Today I’m setting out to create a massage cream that will promote relaxation, both in the way it feels and with a little essential oil aromatherapy. Aloe Butter and Shea Butter are both […]

Relaxing Massage Cream

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Our Cherry Taffy Fragrance Oil is a trip down Memory Lane! Do you know those candy stores with a taffy pulling machine in the window? The ones where you walk through the door into a shop filled with captivating aromas? Fill your shopping basket with taffy, rock candy, gum, lollipops, […]

Fragrance Friday: Cherry Taffy

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Wheat Germ Oil is a marvelous oil for skin care. I’ve trotted it out in lotion, salve, and lip balm. Those products have all turned out quite nicely, so I decided to give Wheat Germ Oil a go in a soap. It’ll be a few weeks before I can test […]

Wheat Germ Oil Soap

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Yesterday I tried crafting an oil free lotion. I browsed our catalog and found all the ingredients that could qualify as oil free and created a formula. Unfortunately, I overdid it on the emulsifying ingredients, so the mixture failed to properly emulsify. Today I’m backing off the emulsifying ingredients and […]

Oil Free Lotion, Take 2

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Champagne Sugar is one of my most favorite scents. I’ve used it for years in cold process soap, but I most recently tried it in lotion and loved it so much! This is a lighter scent, sweet, yet not cloyingly sweet. It somehow managed to smell fizzy; I really like […]

Fragrance Friday: Champagne Sugar

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