Making Good Scents - Summer 97: The newsletter of handcrafted soaps, cosmetics, and perfumes

By Ololade Franklin

Make soaps, cosmetics, and perfumes at home with the Summer 97 issue of Making Good Scents. Read the following articles in this issue. Lavender: A brief article about lavender with ideas about how to use it in your cosmetics. Focus On Bath and Body Oils: Valuable information about bath and body oils with seven recipes for you to make at home. Recipe Potpourri: Make nine different items including Citrus splash soap and Watermelon bath salts. Testing Your Products: Information that you should know about testing your products before selling them. Also contains book reviews, and resource and supplier listings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387930807

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Letter from the publisher:

Juicy watermelons, succulent peaches, zesty oranges.  One of the pleasures of summer are the wonderful fruits that come into season.  Just as wonderful are the scents of these fruits that can be enjoyed in your cosmetics.  The theme for the Recipe Potpourri in this issue is The Scents Of Summer.  In the Recipe Potpourri section, you will find several recipes that take advantage of the wonderfully fruity scents of summer.

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Ololade Franklin, Publisher

Making Good Scents (ISSN 1088-0518) is published quarterly by The Franklin and Franklin Company, P.O. Box 6271, Vancouver, WA  98668.  Publisher: Ololade Franklin.  ©1997, The Franklin and Franklin Company.  No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of The Franklin and Franklin Company.

No part of this publication is intended for the treatment of disease.  Those who have a disease of the skin or other parts of the body should seek advice from a qualified health professional.

Special Ingredients: The Sweet Scent Of Lavender

Lavender is an ingredient that I consider indispensable to the home cosmetics/perfume crafter.  It's essential oil has a fresh, clean scent which can be used alone as a fragrance, or can be successfully blended with other oils to create fragrances for both men and women.  Lavender essential oil is naturally antibacterial and gentle to the skin making it an excellent additive to cosmetics for children and adults.  Lavender essential oil is one of the few natural essential oils that is affordable and pleasant