Are your handmade products natural?

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The products I make from scratch are as natural as I can make them.  While I use natural ingredients where I can, I also use some ingredients that would not be found in nature (for example, the emulsifiers, thickeners and preservative in my Nurse's Hand Cream).  Non-natural or synthetic do not necessarily mean "bad."  Just as not everything in nature is safe, not everything synthetic is unsafe.

 

 

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How do you scent your body products?

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Some of my products are made with no added fragrance, and have the natural scents of the ingredients they are made with (for example, Nurse's Hand & Body Butter has the natural scents of cocoa butter and virgin coconut oil).

 

For the body products I add fragrance to, I use essential oils and/or fragrance oils.  The fragrance oils I use are manufactured for cosmetic product use.  Fragrance oils can be natural or non-natural.  Natural fragrance oils are derived entirely from plants and tend to have a lighter scent, whereas non-natural fragrance oils tend to have a stronger scent.  I have chosen to use mainly natural fragrance oils in my products, though I do use a few non-natural ones, depending on the scent I'm going for (for example, I haven't yet found a natural fragrance oil that allows me to create my cranberry-balsam scent for soaps in winter).

 

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