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.
This fragrance is a blend like none other. The twist of frostbitten berries, a high mountain meadow, a snip of spice, and a lingering evergreen are all wrapped up into one. It’s the perfect scent for clearing the air at home or work. I even think this will be my […]

Fragrance Friday: Alpine

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I’ve been enjoying the combination of Grapeseed Oil and Liquid Shea Oil in lotion, a soap, and in a scrub that I made last week. What other things could I make with this combination of oils? Oh, I know! A lip balm! I’ll have to add some beeswax as well […]

Grapeseed and Liquid Shea Lip Balm

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Lemon Zinger has been a favorite of mine for decades – we’ve had this fragrance in our catalog a very long time, and for good reason! The catalog description reads: “Summertime is the time to get refreshed with lemonade! A fun citrus that we have blended with other fruity scents […]

Fragrance Friday: Lemon Zinger

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This week’s been focused on salty things. We did a salt scrub fragranced with Sea Salt Fragrance Oil, a Soleseife (salt brine) soap, and today we’ll do a salty scented lotion, again using Sea Salt Fragrance Oil. The salt scrub we made on Tuesday contains grapeseed oil, liquid shea oil, […]

Sea Salt Lotion

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Soap made with salt has always fascinated me, but I have never tried to make it. Today that will change! There are two ways to make soap with salt. The first way is to simply add salt to the soap batter for a scrubby bar. This works well using fine […]

Soleseife (Brine) Soap

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This week we’ll consider all things salty. To begin, I’m making a salt scrub scented with Sea Salt Fragrance Oil. It’s a simple place to start. Scrubs are a great way to bring the spa experience home. I find that my extra dry hands love a quick wash followed by […]

Sea Salt Scrub

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We often are asked about how to create a lotion formula. Today I’m going to discuss what goes into lotion. The five necessary components are: • water • oils • emulsifier • humectant • preservative Everything else is optional and either added for label appeal or specific properties. WATER Water […]

Bones of a Lotion Formula

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I set out yesterday to make soap, but what I made was a mess. Because this might help someone else, I’ll share my experience here. The recipe I used was just fine, and I ran it through our Lye Calculator to determine how much water and lye needed to be […]

Soap On A Stick – DRAT!

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Babies have the most incredible skin – so soft and new and wonderful. Today I’m going to make a simple massage oil to support that baby skin and help baby relax. I’ll start with Apricot Kernel or Avocado Oil. Both oils offer nourishing components and have minimal risk of allergic […]

Baby Massage Oil

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I was thinking about how to make my lotions more liquid. I seem to always end up with thick creams instead of fluid lotions, even when I set out to make a more fluid formulation. When encountering a problem like this, I find it’s very helpful to contact our Technical […]

Making A More Fluid Lotion

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