DIY Essential Oil Blends For Perfume and/or Skin Products
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free skin care · Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:32 pm

Often the sites of official perfumes give some idea of the kind of scents that are in it. Important is to know about top notes, middle notes and ground notes, and fixatives to make a 'real' perfume.

Scents can be organised in the same way as music scales. This may sound funny, but it's serious. And you combine notes to make a harmony, a chord, and just like any composer you can make that chord as complex as you choose.
Use google to find lists that assign musical annotations to scent notes. The fixative often used by DIY perfumers is ground orris root. The trickiest part is to keep all notes equally 'loud' for as long as possible - which is quite difficult. You often end up with only the ground notes (patchouli being a notorious one in this respect) remaining and all the middle and top notes gone. In the top notes, tonka is quite a persistent one. Just try out, find out what you like, test it and make your own signature scent. It can be done, and it can be fun.

free skin care · Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:46 pm

Khoobsurat21 wrote:

Hi Kassy ,

Love reading all your posts, diys. Could you share the recipe of the night cream with the glutathione

Thanks
Khoobsurat21

6oz No Brainer A,C,E & Glutathione Cream

3 1/2oz distilled water brought to 120F in a 16oz pyrex glass meausuring cup.

In a separate smaller glass utensil put in;

1 TBS e-wax (or polawax if you like it thick, thick)
1 TBS refined shea butter (you could use the regular if you don't mind the smell)
1/2 TBS evening primrose (or borage) oil

Heat the oil phase till just melted, which should be close to the temp of the water.

You'll need 2 little shot glasses for your active/cool down phase

glass #1 decant 1 TBS water and after it cools just a bit add 1 tsp glutathione, and 1/2 tsp preservative

glass #2 decant 1 TBS of the oils/wax and working quickly, add in the contents of 12 vitamin A gelcaps, 10 vitamin E gelcaps and 1/2 tsp of ascorbyl palmitate (oil soluble vit C)

Using a little stick blender, drizzle the oil phase into the water phase while continually blending (at least 3 minutes.) When the temp is 100 or below you will add the active phases and continue to blend well.. (If you place the cup on your inner arm and it just feels warm, you are good to go and don't need to check the temp. Don't skimp on the blending/mixing. You should spend a good 7 or 8 minutes in total.

Pour into a container before it's completely cooled. It will thicken up as it cools. Don't put any lid on until it's cool.

I scented mine as indicated in my post above, and it's very nice. If you use unrefined shea butter, I'm not sure how best to cover that smell.

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