Bath and body

The Day After Christmas – Bath Salts

Discover these revitalising “The Day After Christmas” Bath Salts featuring a refreshing blend of sea salt, Epsom salt, activated charcoal, peppermint, and lemongrass essential oils. Perfect for a morning after holiday festivities, this invigorating soak provides a luxurious mix of skin revival and mental clarity after the holiday hustle. A quick and easy tutorial for the perfect last-minute gift! […]

Bath and body

Gingerbread – Body Scrub

Do you love the warm, sweet, spicy scents of Christmas? This delicious Gingerbread body scrub not only captures the essence of the season but is also quick and easy to make. Perfect for a last minute gift! But likely you might want to keep it for yourself, because it leaves your skin feeling soft and smooth, and it smells oh so yummy! […]

Cold process soap

Ukraine Soap – with natural colourants!

A pure olive oil soap using a two-technique colouring method with natural botanical colourants to create this layered Ukrainian flag inspired design. Making soap using different techniques simultaneously can seem daunting, but with a little planning it’s as easy-peasy as making your first soap. Well, nearly anyway. […]

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The philosophy of skin care formulation

How do you define ‘natural’? What does natural mean to you? What is your philosophy when it comes to skin care and formulation? And why should you care? Why are you using a particular ingredient? How does that ingredient fit in with your philosophy? These questions and more are discussed in lesson 1 of the Masterclass. […]

Natural cleaning

Natural Surface Cleaning Spray

Unlike most DIY surface cleaning sprays, this one actually works! Very effective at removing both oil-soluble and water-soluble dirt and grime, you can use this as a general spray and wipe or as a heavy duty cleaner. And best of all? It’s completely natural! […]

Cold process soap

Snow soap

A pure and natural Christmas soap with a special blend of essential oils reminiscent of the freshly fallen snow in a pine forest. A cold process soap, which would also work with hot process technique! […]

Cold process soap

Natural orange spice soap

Orange spice is the classic Christmas fragrance with sweet orange and spicy notes of cinnamon and clove. Using only natural ingredients – essential oils for fragrance, and calendula petals and cinnamon spice for colour – this soap is palm-free, vegan and 100% natural! […]

Bath and body

New Zealand lavender bath bombs

Lavender is not something you usually associate with New Zealand, so it comes to a surprise to many to hear that there are several dozen commercial lavender growing farms here in New Zealand […]