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alchemy est. 1992

12/28/2015

 
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I've been mixing up natural skin care for my self and friends for 23 years. 

"Regular" people didn't have the internet when I started mixing up my own skin-care lotions. Ingredients weren't easy to come by; and there was no service to deliver 'diatomaceous earth' to my door. In fact, I had to go to the library to look up (in a card catalog) what it was and why it was in my recipe.

At the time, my favorite little emulsion was:

1 T Sweet Almond Oil
1 t vegetable glycerine
5-7 drops Neroli (which was a quarter of our monthly grocery budget for .10 oz)

Blended with a hand whisk in a porcelain tea cup -- and dabbed on clean skin. And a spritz of Rose Water.

It still gives me so much pleasure to create effective products for specific needs; finding the right essential oils for the treatment; mix masks. I love making fresh, custom blends for facials -- and finding the right small-batch creations of others to offer clients. 

Some favorites:
Featherheart Trading Company - whipped lotions & body oils

Marble & Milkweed - ANYTHING Briar makes is 'delicious'. But I'd like to suggest the Jasmine & Green Tea Matcha Masque, and the seasonal body oils

City Girl Soap and City Girl Lotion -- there's a short blod dedicated to WHY I recommend the goats' milk lotion especially.



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    The Art of Slow Living

    MONIQUE HERZIG
    artist and advocate for the Slow Life.

    BS in Recreation and Leisure Studies

    Licensed Aesthetician

    Life-long maker of beautiful things

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