The Jen Spice channel is all about beauty crafting around the world. I share in my culinary kitchen when I find something that may increase inner health and beauty. I also regularly take you into my cosmetic lab to create soap and other lovely outer beauty enhancing products. I love to teach and travel so I will be taking my students abroad with me to find treasures around the world for cosmetics (May 2024- Southern Morocco).
My name is Jen and I have been making soap and beauty products for over 30 years. I have an ASc in technical biology and a BSc from the University of Victoria. I have finished at the Ghana Soap School and am currently formulating my own NA black soap. I am also a Formula Botanica Graduate and am active in The Lab which keeps my natural beauty formulating current. I have finished the Practical Cosmetic Formulation course taught by Perry Romanovsky.
I am currently enrolled in the cosmetic chemist degree program at The Institute of Personal Care Science.
Since it’s cold processed, you can just pour the lye solution to the oils & it will still be fairly warm even if oils were not warmed up & at room temperature.
AI is interesting to work with. It worked quite well this time. The first one I made for making lipstick added ground meat mixing, and I could not edit ot out😂
Basic Sweet Drink Bomb Recipe (Margarita Style) 1 T. Citric Acid 1T. Baking Soda or Sodium Bicarbonate 1T. Calamansi Sweet Lime Powder 1 c. icing sugar (or finely grind your own castor sugar) 1/2 c. castor sugar (table sugar) Mix dry ingredients well. This is your Master Drink Bomb Mix To 1/2 c. of mix add... zest of 1 lime 1/4 teaspoon fresh lime juice (add half at a time) Mix well and quickly. Pack into the mold (1/2 teaspoons work very well). Use within 8 hours for floating fizzy bombs or serve in shallow glasses for a fizzy tablet style drink bomb. For Tart Drink Bombs (increase citric acid by 1-2 T. add sugar if necessary and make the bombs smaller--these will be very sour). I made a bunch of these last night. I also increased the regular sugar for texture and sweetness in the 3 T. of citric recipe Taste as you go along when you tweak it so you get a yummy bomb that suits your palate. It's kind of addicting once you get started. Using a master mix is a great idea so just make a larger quantity and create a few bombs at a time. The flavors I tried lately were Orange Cream with orange zest, Cherry Orange, Black Cherry Lime, Cola, Cherry Cola, Margarita, and Red Velvet. I used soda flavor concentrates and bakery emulsions this time, but use your imagination.
I am going to try putting us into anime for that video we made, lol. The last time I tried I ended up looking like an old crone. If it works not to our advantage, I will share it privately.
I LOVE Morocco and plan on coming back soon. I already have plans to return for a family wedding in September. Looks like I will have family in Morocco soon and have even more reasons to visit, LOL!
I am in Germany 🇩🇪 right now and am considering having some bratwurst or weiner schnitzel. Living the high life, but the red-eye fight is messing me up 😂
Incha'Allah. We hope to see as much as we can. We made it to the weekly market (so much better than the Medina) and took a tour of the Kasbah Ameridil. Amazing architecture that would be awesome to recreate today. Loved it. So cool inside 😎 despite the scorching heat of the day .
I wish I caught this live. I would to know your favorite Asian hair care. I never tried. This is amazing information you are sharing. If you ever had an online class. I would be interested. Where do you get your Multibase EL from?
Next time! Thank you so much. I will be offering the Moroccan Beginners Masterclass online when we get back. It will include private messaging time for you to ask questions and get troubleshooting with your own creations made in the program. I will be teaching everything from color cosmetics to skin care. We will of course be making Moroccan and African soap as well! 14 lessons in total. The video program will be shot on site in Morocco. I will be choosing some really beautiful areas to do the demonstrations and creation as well as the places we tour. Catch the re plays and say hi!
I bought it by the pallet from Vitapure (now out of business in Canada) but a number of online merchants have something that is similar (I am ordering and testing from different companies to find it again for myself). Cajun Candles ( cajuncandles.com/easy-lotion-el-1-base ) that I think is the same formulation as mine and Aztec ( www.candlemaking.com/natural-multi-body-lotion-shea-butter.html ) also has a different more natural formulation. For now I am using what I have and it is working really well for a wide range of applications. I do have some in stock but it is not as inexpensive as the afore mentioned vendors. It is $20 plus shipping directly from me. Try the other guys first. I would start with Cajun Candles as it seems to be the closest to what I am using in the live streams.
I made a lotion trying to make it really moisturizing and I think I put too much stuff into it. I only added 3% glycerin, but also added ha and betaine and other stuff LOL but it's really sticky! I don't like it. So i think next time I'm not even going to add glycerin. IDK. .... And i was going to ask if you even sleep!! Hahaha
Rarely do I get to sleep, LOL. Just try reducing your humectant rather than eliminating it all together. Try 2% glycerine and keep the HA. Total humectant should never exceed 5%. Take out the rest and only add one at a time until you love the feel of it. Keep good notes and evaluate the next day. Happy Formulating Melissa!
@@JenSpice thanks for the tips! Good note taking has been one of my downfalls but I now realize that I need to take notes and be more organized. Although not sure if I'll ever get organized! LOL
@@melissapeterson4202 I scribble notes on scraps of paper all the time, LOL. Then I promptly lose the notes. Get a formulation journal. It is handy to have when you get inspired!
The lemon bioferment that I added to leftover creams that didn't fit into my storage jars really felt nice as a overnight mask last night too.The edelweiss extract is lovely too. Having all these excess creams is fun to experiment with all my individual actives. It's incredible the impact the emulsifiers make on the final lotion skin feel. I honestly thought a lot more weight in the final texture, was my lipids selection.😅
Steric acid and even cetearyl alcohol add a lot to lotions. I have an oil free vanishing cream formulation that makes the cream appear pearlized! Fun stuff🎉😊
It shut off prematurely but said it was still live, LOL. I am just learning the live do's and don't. Not sure what I did wrong this time. Thank you so much for coming by and checking out my stream! I will try again tomorrow and see what happens if my life allows, LOL😃
I'm glad you like it. Sabon Beldi Hammam Olive Oil (pomace) 78.95% or 187.5g Coconut Oil 10.53% or 256.5 g Shea Butter 10.53% or 188 g Argan Oil ( Superfat: Add after cook and cool) 20 g Black Olives (add to water and mix with lye) 1/2 c (I used the whole can including the juice) Water: 425 g Lye (KOH): 195 g (7% Superfat) Essential Oil 25 ml 1 T. Charcoal Powder
LOL. It really was fun. I have never had such smooth feet. Unfortunately I cannot seem to get a team of fishies here in Canada to hire for my regular pedicure routine, LOL Health Canada feels the same way you do AD, 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I still thing you should come with me, LOL. It was so much fun dancing and eating doughnuts with you on Freemont St. Good times. We need to get together again next year. Have you been to the Heart Attack Cafe?
