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DIY Natural Shaving Cream
According to Gillette, shaving cream does four things: Hydration – keeps moisture in hairs during the shave, leaving them softer and easier to cut. When less force is needed to cut each hair, your shave can be more comfortable. Lubrication – creates a thin layer of protection between the blade and the skin, ensuring less…
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Super Easy DIY Hair Oil
In our Top 10 Carrier Oils for Hair post, we mentioned that we’ll be sharing some DIY recipes on our favorite and most effective hair oils. So, here we are today with this post! This tutorial is super quick and super easy. No fuss, and perfect for when you’re too tired to formulate a combination…
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Get to Know: Cosmetic Irritants, Allergens & Comedogens
There is a lot of information on the internet about cosmetic irritants, allergens and comedogens, but which is true and which isn’t? Check out this informative video (with factual references!) by Belinda Carli, theDirector of the Institute of Personal Care Science and Cosmetic Formulator 👇 Thank you Belinda Carli from Personal Care Formulations for sharing this…
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Top 6 Essential Oils for a Mood Boost
Feeling down? Unmotivated? Not willing down down another cup of caffeine or just want to feel less exhausted throughout the day? Considering adding any (or all) of these 6 essential oils into your daily routine! They can be incorporated into your personal care products (shampoo, lotion, moisturizer and more), used on their own as diffuser…
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About Vitamin E and Which to Use in Your Personal Care Products
Generally, we know that there are two kinds of the antioxidant Vitamin E: the naturally-occurring (the d- form) and the synthetic (the dl- form, and the acetate). However, there is more to it than just that. Vitamin E comes in 8 forms which belongs to two classes. So, which do you use? And, how much Vitamin…
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Flashback Friday – Beautiza Wrote About Us!
At Craftiviti, we’re always grateful and appreciative about the love we get from our customers and supporters. It’s always amazing meeting other passionate crafters, hearing from them and finding out about their love and support for anything craft-related! Today, we’d like to share one of the earlier blog posts we’ve stumbled upon that featured us:…
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DIY Gemstone Soap
Gemstone soaps are gorgeous. Not as entirely easy to make as your typical melt and pour soap (where you just melt and pour into molds, wait for them to harden and then, they’re ready to use), but definitely worth the extra effort! The following videos are two tutorials on how you can make your own gemstone…
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We Tried 3 Common Reed Diffuser Liquid Recipes and Came Up with Two More!
There are 3 common recipes on internet on how you can make your own diffuser liquid at home, and since we’re enthusiasts about aromatherapy, we thought, why not try them and share whether it worked for us or not? We also did some other experiments on creating other kinds of diffuser liquids. 1. Alcohol + Water +…
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About Sunscreens and How to Make Them
Formulating your own sunscreen can be tricky, especially when you want to formulate one that is SPF50+, doesn’t feel tacky and is actually water-resistant. The following informative video by Belinda Carli, Director of the Institute of Personal Care Science and Cosmetic Formulator to learn about SPF in sunscreens, the materials and ingredients used, issues faced when…
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DIY Aromatherapeutic Slime
The days of the slime craze has probably already passed (replaced by soap cutting and bath bomb slicing) but between the three of them, we’re pretty sure that slime is kinder to the wallet, generally safer (no sharp objects!) and it also lasts longer. So for today, we’re going to share our favorite slime recipe…
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