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

By Ololade Franklin

Enjoy soap making, making cosmetics and perfumery with the Winter 97 issue of Making Good Scents. Inside you will find the following articles - Wonderful Aloe Vera: Find out about aloe vera and how to use it in your cosmetics. Natural Body Powders: An article with tips and recipes for making natural body powders at home. Our Version: make our version of a famous fragrance. Recipe Potpourri: Make twelve different items including sweet-as-honey soap, aloe vera soap and lavender-aloe bath salts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329510333

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Letter from the publisher:

Happy New Year to you! If you are like most people, you have probably set many goals for this year.  If some of your goals include making cosmetics and perfumes at home, then we want to help you achieve your plans.  We'd like to hear from you.  Let us know if you have a comment, suggestion, question, or a tip to share with other readers.  We'd also like to know how Making Good Scents™ has helped you. 

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The Franklin and Franklin Company, P.O. Box 6271, Vancouver, WA  98668

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:  Wonderful Aloe Vera

The aloe vera plant (also called Aloe barbadensis) is unique among plants for its importance in the cosmetics industry.  Cosmetic products made with aloe vera are used to treat everything from dry and scaly skin to chapped lips and dermatitis.  Aloe vera is most noted for its gel and juice which is widely used in creams, lotions, shampoos and a variety of other cosmetic preparations. Aloe vera gel and juice are available commercially in liquid and in dehydrated form.  An oil-soluble extract is also produced from the aloe vera plant.  It is sold under the names aloe vera oil and aloe vera extract. 

Aloe vera pulp is the clear, thick substance inside of the aloe vera leaf. (It is often called aloe vera gel, but it is usually treated before it is sold commercially).  Aloe vera juice is made by liquefying aloe vera pulp.  Aloe vera gel is made