blog — ingredients
What’s your skin care game changer?
Posted by Renee Harris on
- Tags: ingredients, skin condition
Know the Ingredients in your Lotion [and how they affect you]
Posted by Renee Harris on
- Tags: allergy, eczema, ingredients, low carb skin care, petroleum, psoriasis, rash, skin condition
Beesilk Jr as an Emollient and Beesilk Lotion as a Hard Lotion Bar...
Posted by Renee Harris on
- Tags: beesilk, beesilk jr, children, eczema, ingredients, petroleum, shea butter, travel
Burt's Bees Mama Bee Belly Butter - what's in it?
Posted by Renee Harris on
A question that came in: "Hello, I’m interested in some of your products. My wife is 6 months pregnant and I was looking into belly butter…what is your version of this and is the price comparable?" He attached a photo of Burt's Bees Mama Bee Belly Butter (with the tagline "Be Good to Your Bump" - ahh, love that tagline!) What a great question to research. At first peek, their first ingredient is water, which makes it completely different than ours. We purposefully avoid water because it introduces the need for other ingredients, like these: glyceryllaurate, sodium stearoyl lactylate, sucrose...
- Tags: allergy, ingredients, pregnancy
Making Perfume from Essential Oil Blends
Posted by Renee Harris on
Researching essential oil blends for perfumes is actually somewhat stressful for me (unless it has lavender... then it should calm me, right? 🤣) There are so many factors involved - the obvious is that I need to love the scent blend. But there's more to it than that. What to know before making your own perfume bottles: What percentage of essential oil to carrier oil? Which essential oils are safe for the skin? Within the overall percentage of essential oil to carrier oil, what percentage of individual oil should I consider to 1.) keep it safe, and 2.) balance out...
- Tags: DIY, ingredients