How Do You Record Your Formulations? Do you make your own products or perfume? Are you a budding perfumer working on your own fragrances? If so how do you record your formulae? As I have a few weeks off from teaching classes I have been creating a lot of fragrances. I am working on my [...]
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Smelling Strips
Smelling Strips, Blotters, Mouillettes Whatever you like to call them they are essential for anyone with a passion for perfume. They come in all shapes and sizes and varying qualitity, so which ones should you choose? Buy Smelling Strips Here If you are studying raw materials, evaluating fragrances or learning how to make perfume then [...]
How To Use Jasmine Essential Oil
How To Use Jasmine Essential Oil This video shows the making of a jasmine and coconut oil with inexpensive ingredients to treat dry ends and fly-away bits in hair. Detailed steps are shown and explained. All ingredients are natural and proportions are provided. Today, I’m going to show you how to use Jasmine Oil. Jasmine [...]
How To Use Patchouli Essential Oil
How To Use Patchouli Essential Oil Get a quick tip on how to treat oily or aging skin, the natural way, from Karen Gilbert, perfumery and natural beauty expert. In this video, Karen teaches you how to blend patchouli oil into a lovely facial mask. Today, I’m going to show you how to use patchouli [...]
SHEA BUTTER BATH MELTS
Luxury Bath Melt Recipe 50g CITRIC ACID 125g BICARBONATE OF SODA 25g CORNSTARCH 50g SHEA BUTTER up to 30 drops Essential Oil of your choice MELT THE SHEA BUTTER IN A DOUBLE BOILER OVER A GENTLE HEAT UNTIL JUST LIQUID. LEAVE TO COOL MIX THE CITRIC ACID, CORNSTARCH AND BICARB TOGETHER AND ADD ESSENTIAL OILS [...]
Images of Beauty
Most of us, no matter how healthy usually let things slide a little over Christmas so we are feeling (and possibly looking) a little rougher around the edges than we usually do. Come January, magazines bombard us with diets, detoxes and post party season recovery tips which accompanied by pictures of stunning models doesn’t do [...]
Perfume Class Video
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Free Body Scrub Recipe
This year has been a bit of a whirlwind for me with so many changes. Last summer I decided to take a break from my retail business to focus on my first love perfumery with the view to writing a book. I have always loved teaching and sharing my knowledge so when I spotted an [...]
Perfumery – Covent Garden to Birmingham
I have just recovered from an intensive 2 days whizzing around the country teaching and talking perfumery. I always forget how much talking for 2 days solid strains your voice, I really must remember to drink more water! Saturday was in Covent Garden at the training centre of Neal’s Yard Remedies where I had 13 [...]
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Karen Gilbert: Thanks Zoe, glad you enjoyed it :-)...
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@HelenaLinder no worries, hope your new business is going well :-)
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