Thoughts and ideas from the world of Majestic Mountain Sage.

Lotions and Creams

Summer is coming, and I love to wear sandals and show off my pedicure. But unless you can afford to get a new pedicure every few days, your feet will start getting dry and calloused between visits to the salon. I created this overnight foot cream in hopes of keeping […]

Illipe Butter Overnight Foot Cream

18 Apr, 2019 in Featured Product / Lotions and Creams by Denise

I love lotion bars – both making them and using them! I’m firmly of the opinion that lotion bars are a treat for super dry and chapped hands as well as rough elbows and knees. Since lotion bars are easy and fun to make, I thought this would be another […]

Easy Illipe Nut Butter Lotion Bars

15 Apr, 2019 in Fast and Simple Gifts / Featured Product / Lotions and Creams by Denise

It may be spring, but my skin is staying horribly dry. I love products with cocoa butter, and since Illipe Nut Butter has a similar brittle texture, I decided to use it in a thick body butter. My goal is a very moisturizing cream, something to chase away winter dry […]

Illipe Nut Body Butter

12 Apr, 2019 in Featured Product / Lotions and Creams by Denise

Finished jars of hand cream for favors. — Welcome back! Yesterday I showed you some super easy lip balm wedding favors. Today we are going to make wedding favor lotions! Lotions are pretty easy to make, but when you are crunching for time and sanity, using our lotion bases makes the process stress-free. Similar to yesterday’s blog, we […]

K.I.S.S. Wedding Favors – Our Favorite Hand Cream

28 Mar, 2019 in Fast and Simple Gifts / Lotions and Creams by Katy

We have another exciting new product for our Adventurous Makers! Introducing Organic Baobab Butter. What is baobab? (I’m glad you asked because I was wondering the same thing!) It is a tree found in Africa with enormously wide trunks and bearing large, teardrop-shaped fruits. Baobab trees live for hundreds of […]

Lovely Baobab Body Butter

19 Mar, 2019 in Lotions and Creams / New Products by Denise

I was looking at lotion labels the other day, and I noticed that all of my favorite lotions contain dimethicone. I wondered how much this ingredient impacted my preference for those lotions. Come along while I try an experiment as I’ll make two lotions using a simple recipe. One lotion […]

What Does Dimethicone Change in a Lotion?

18 Mar, 2019 in Lotions and Creams by Denise

Turmeric is a delicious spice and is noted for its anti-inflammatory properties. You can get the same boost using turmeric externally as well, and we have the perfect new product: Turmeric Butter! We love this new butter with Turmeric Extract in a skin-loving base of Shea Butter, Palm Butter, Coconut […]

Turmeric Butter Lotion Bars

13 Mar, 2019 in Lotions and Creams / New Products by Denise

World Bartender Day was February 24, and I’m celebrating with a body lotion recipe inspired by the Mimosa cocktail. Equal parts champagne and citrus juice (usually orange juice), this tasty beverage is a staple at many Sunday brunch tables. The combination of sparkling wine and juice originated centuries ago in […]

Mimosa Lotion for World Bartender Day

26 Feb, 2019 in Lotions and Creams by Denise

Filled jars of foot cream. — This little piggy went to the market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had dry feet and cried all the way home. Today’s recipe is for a foot butter that will keep your little piggies as happy as can be. I chose to use our Body Butter Base […]

Foot Maintenance Week – Keeping Those Little Piggies Moisturized

8 Feb, 2019 in Fast and Simple Gifts / Lotions and Creams by Katy

Don’t panic! No one has to disrobe! (Whew! It’s kinda cold for that nonsense in Alaska in February!) Instead, let’s work on making naked products. My idea for today is to leave out extras like scents and colors while we just focus on skin-loving goodness in soap and lotion. Before […]

It’s Working Naked Day! (With Two Easy & Luxurious Recipes)

1 Feb, 2019 in Cold Process Soap / Lotions and Creams by Denise

Yesterday, I thought that my first comparison batches of body butter were too greasy. With my opinions in hand, I turned to our trusty technical support team for formulation assistance and advice. (Our tech support folks are great at helping!) After discussing my original formula as well as what I […]

Shea Butter-Sal Butter Comparison Body Butter, Take 2

31 Jan, 2019 in Lotions and Creams by Denise

Creating a light lotion with these two different butters made me wonder how much more prevalent these two butters would be in a creamier mixture. I took my recipe for the lotion I’d made before and tweaked it to get more viscosity. The first thing I did was to reduce […]

Shea Butter-Sal Butter Comparison Body Butter

30 Jan, 2019 in Lotions and Creams by Denise