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As you know now, we are working on a basic formulation that has slight changes to determine WHAT effect an ingredient has. Today’s recipe is this: 6 oz wt Hydrogenated Soybean Oil 5 oz wt Coconut Oil 4 oz wt Olive Oil 1 oz wt Lanolin 6 fl oz Black […]

Cold Process Soap, Day Three

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People can spend a lot of money on soap molds for cold process soap. We try to use what is easy to find for our test batches. Certainly we aren’t looking for equal-sized bars or perfectly shaped edges. We make soap in disposable cookie trays like the elf cookies from […]

Cold Process Soap, Day Two

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Sometimes, when a delivery man comes to our receiving door, we will hear comments of how nice it smells. Yesterday afternoon, we had a delivery man come in. He sniffed and said “Your place always smells better than the other places I deliver.” After we told him thank you, he […]

MMS Snapshot

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Today I won’t go into depth on the hows and whys of our soap recipe, but I will give you one. I want to cover the basics of how to get ready as our primary focus. HAIR If you have long hair please pull it up in a clip or […]

Cold Process Soap, Day One

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I thought that rounding out our scrub week with a scrub specifically for the lips would be nice. This scrub is great for helping remove the dry skin on your lips. Needed Items: Macadamia Nut Butter Macadamia Oil Vitamin E Natural Flavor of your choice, we are using Cucumber Melon […]

Lip Scrub

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What about salt scrubs? I decided that we needed to add a salt scrub to our Spa Week. One of the recipes that was in our research and development recipe book is similar to the Body Shop scrubs. The notes that accompany the recipe say people think this recipe is […]

Awesome Salt Scrubs!

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So far this week, we’ve worked on scrubs. Now we’re going to make a scrub using the Glycerin Scrub Base. This base has a similar sudsy effect to yesterday’s Cranberries & Lime Body Polish, but it creates a few more bubbles. We are going to use the Glycerin Scrub Gift […]

Glycerin Sugar Scrubs

I’m going to expand on yesterday’s post. We are going to make the Cranberries & Lime Body Polish, using sugar instead of salt. We’re still going to have oil and an exfoliant, but we are going to add the Shower Gel & Liquid Hand Soap in One for a slight […]

Cranberries & Lime Body Polish

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Today I’m going to start our spa week with a simple Sugar Scrub. Last week, with my mistake on the Coffee Butter Latte Cream, I realized that testing and comparison are always needed to find your favorite products. When making a sugar scrub, you need to choose the oil you […]

Simple Sugar Scrubs

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Hi, my name is Kandie. I’m the guest blogger for the day. I work in the order department here at MMS. I once studied massage therapy and graduated as a massage therapist. I have massaged clients in the past and used a wide variety of massage oils, and I’ve often […]

Massage Oil

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I’ll admit it, I’m a complete and total java junkie. I love curling up with a good book and a cup of coffee. Around here, every time Coffee Butter has to be packed, there is a small race in the warehouse as soon as people realize that the Coffee Butter […]

Coffee Butter Latte Cream

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Sometimes I need to make a new lip balm because I’m out of lip balm again. Yesterday I made the Kissable Lip Gloss and I thought since I was thinking about lips, I might do a lip balm. One of my favorite wintertime Lip Solutions is the Mango Butter Lip […]

Lip Balm with Mango Butter Lip Solutions