Soap tribute to Nunavut

If you saw my post yesterday you could see all the beautiful soaps that have been created as part of an exchange between passionate soap. Today I will show you mine…

For this great swap I wanted you to travel to my home country, the Canada. A journey far North, beyond the coniferous forests,… to land ice. I was inspired, you'll understand, of glaciers in northern Canada. More exactly to the Nunavut. Nunavut with its large tracts of land, water and ice inhabited by a multitude of fabulous animals. This beautiful area is north eastern canada… and hits very close to Greenland. I am passionate about the native cultures of these regions since childhood. So I wanted, sort by soap, honor them.

Their culinary traditions and cosmetics is mostly composed of animal products. Here I tried to imagine a product 100 % plant that might suit them. Help them with their daily, the cold climate and lack of light. For indeed the seasons are marked by great period of day and night sides of… up to several months in a row.

Here is the olfactory composition of my soap. It contains grapefruit, for the sun side. Of verbena, for his part in a good mood the blues. Then the oak moss, herbaceous and woody smell this, very natural that resembles what one feels when the snow melts.

So I wanted to give the appearance of my soap glacier; these glaciers tinted turquoise depths, white and black. You might recognize as being the polar bear… emblem of Nunavut ! For the marbling technique will be explained according to the recipe.

Without further ado here is my recipe…

Coconut oil 30 %
Olive oil 21 %
Grape seed oil (macerated verveine) 28,35 %
Hazelnut oil 13 %
Huile macadamia 2 %
Beurre de karité 4 %
Huile de palme 1,65 %

Water and soda to recalculate
Greasing to 7 %

The trace :
Synergy 3 % (Grapefruit essential oil, vervain and oak moss absolute)

Neon blue dye + a hint of neon green
White titanium oxide
Black coal + Shiny charcoal gray pearl cosmetics

INS : 140,63

Difficulty : Conservation : Several months

Traditional method of soap cold
Melt the oils together. Add soda water (not the other) and cool. When both mixtures, water and soda, are room temperature, pour the soda / water in your oil and mix until the appearance of the trace. Add the rest of your ingredients (essential oil, oil, oxide, mica) and pour into your molds. Wait 48 h and unmold your soaps with gloves. Place in a dry place for a minimum of cure 6 weeks.

Why these quantities ?
Just because I worked with what I had at home. I wanted to provide maximum softness and texture soap. Then with these curious quantities I could get a soap that my faith pleases me well. Then it stays in the theme also, because winter is done with what we had when we lived in the far north ! 🙂

Presentation
I sent these little soap about 60g in small pack of craft paper… as if it were a fragile box came directly from Canada. I have not had time to take a picture but you can see here, around here and is. I had also this label to accompany. We find the logo of the Government of Nunavut, I invite you to discover : www.gov.nu.ca

What technique of marbling ?
Here I used the technique to the hanger. Which involves stacking sandwich our different colors into a mold and gently move a hanger for marbling. By cons here I have not done as usual… I twisted my hanger to give it a shape of fingers and I do not go to the length but the width of my mold. As the picture. By movements up and down until the end of my mold. When cutting I added a little polar bear with his star, The logo comme de Nunavut, a small stencil that I made all applied with a little white mica.

 

Finally, this exchange was a wonderful opportunity for me to express my respect to a little-known people. So I wanted to honor them, they who seek to preserve their languages ??and traditions, while facing the laws of species protection and environmental. This is where some traditions and environment happiness.

Let us know more precisely to protect our natural large water !

The Illuminator foundation… home !

This is the end of summer… la fin de la bonne mine des vacances. L’automne est là, resumption of work, le retour en cours bref le retour du teint des buildings comme dirait ma mère. C’est quoi le teint building… le teint gris comme ceux des grattes ciel de nos grandes villes. Je suis certaine que vous voyez de quoi je parle. Mais voilà parfois un peu donner un petit coup de main à la nature avec une petite touche de maquillage, the blush… yes… but also a light touch.

I love these compact four-color… turning the brush and hop ! Ce que j’aime moins c’est leur prix… I oui 20 euro c’est beaucoup pour un truc futile. Alors voici une belle façon d’en faire un soi même pour le huitième du prix ! Here is the recipe…

Base powder
4 g arrow root
3 g magnesium stearate
0.5 g of plum butter (or shea, coffee, lawyer, etc.)
1 to 2 macadamia oil drops or hazel
0.5 g Dioxyde of titane
0.2 g soft key

Here the mixture for 4 colors

Beige
0.30 g mica beige

Rose
0.10 g mica rose bonbon

Violet
0.05 g oxide purple
0.08 g mica brillant

White
0.23 g mica brillant
0.07 g mica or

Difficulty : ––Conservation : 6 month —–Capacity : 10 g

Method
Faites votre mélange au mixeur de vos ingrédient pour la base. Lorsque le tout est bien homogène, séparez celle ci en quatre. Ce qui reviendra environ a 1.75 g of base for each color. Mélangez au mixeur 1.75 g with your basic recipe for beige, book and then do the same thing with the pink, ainsi de suite. Vous devriez avoir maintenant quatre pots contenant vos quatre couleurs mélangé chacune à de la base.
Pour roughly one in these cosmetic one cup, afin de former une espèce de forme en tarte. Compressez le tout et appliquez votre godet dans son emballage cosmétique.

Aromazone sells everything you need for this here plus explanations for your compacted powders. Faut prendre le coup de main mais une fois appris ce petit kit est très pratique.

Use
Il ne vous suffit que de vous munir d’un pinceau et d’appliquer cette poudre sur l’ensemble du visage. N’ayez pas trop la main lourde sinon vous risquez de faire fantôme ^^. Vous pouvez aussi l’utilisé par touche sur le haut des pommettes.

Verdict
I love the texture on the skin, l’odeur est délicieuse avec le beurre de prune. Par contre faut pas échapper son compact car on risque de retrouver le tout décompressé. Si vous avez une peau plus foncé… slightly exaggerate the intensity of the four basic colors.

Cliquez pour voir une photo plus grande rajouté suite à une demande de Letis 😉
I had already used the palette from which to defeat the right, rajouté suite à une demande de Letis 😉

Mask hides capricious

I do not know what is happening now but the arrival of autumn my skin a monster caprice. A true diva this skin !! Normally it's all mixed fatty, prone to blackheads and all that follows. I did so for masks, imitation of a popular product on the U.S. “Silver powder”. A product of M * B * rio descu. But I find it quite expensive and yet the ingredients seem pretty simple.

This mask is composed of ; Calcium Carbonate, Titanium Dioxide, Zinc Oxide. So more specifically calcium carbonate, Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. All of easy to find materials in our suppliers favorite.

But what are the benefits of these raw materials ?

Carbonate of calcium : Mild abrasive, gives texture to cosmetic.
Titanium dioxide : White for cosmetics, UV light, anti microbien.
The zinc oxide : antibacterial, antifungal, soothes irritation.

So you can easily reproduce this yourself powder. Knowing that the dosage varies depending on the order of ingredient, the first is still higher amount than the last. Apparently this mask is somewhat difficult to remove when applied to the entire face. It is not a miracle mask but it gives quite a boost !

I am inspired by this recipe to make my own mask…

Ingredients :
1 cc white clay (Purifying)
1 cc scale powder (healing)
1/2 cc of calcium carbonate (mild abrasive)
1/2 cc of the zinc oxide (anti-microbial and soothing)

Adding a mask applied to a button that area or black dots:
1/4 cc baking soda (drying)

Difficulty : ––Conservation : 5 month (in its powder)

Method :
That simply mix all the ingredients together and pour into a sterile container.
Keep your pot away from moisture ! When you want to use you just have to remove a small amount and add water until a smooth paste consistency but. Remember when you add an aqueous phase (water, gel, etc.) you can not keep this mask, so use it right away.

Why not replace the water with something else :

Gel d'Aloes : Lifting effect tightens pores so.
Hydrosol of lavender or tea tree : Purifying and treating acne.
Honey : Healing, soothes irritation and protects the skin hydration.
Lemon juice : Purifying and gives a glow to the skin.
Apple juice + cider vinegar : Brightness and light fruit acids.

The why of how

How to form comedones (blackheads) ?
An accumulation of sebum that forms in a channel and exposed to air it oxidizes the.

How to prevent those below ?
As always a healthy diet, Physical Activity (and yes it makes you sweat and eliminate toxins).

Other factors…
The stress, hormones are, the pollution, touching the face, comedogenic products and not well suited… in short everything is what.

How to fix it ?
Healthy lifestyle, exfoliate the skin gently and make steam baths on our face !

We can remove them ?
I think it is better to see a beautician for this stuff… any time if you do it anyway make sure to disinfect and apply an anti microbial because you might get stuck with an ugly scar and a button… which tends to be much more painful and seeing !

Useful link :
If you want to know more about skin… and why it sometimes flares of acne, buttons or other I invite you to view the video down below, made by an American dermatologist. If you have the chance please visit his website, is a mine of information and most importantly you can ask questions. Unfortunately this is all in English so… as for bilingual.

The website of Dr.. Neal Schultz : http://dermtv.com

Video : Why Touching Your Face Causes Acne Breakouts
He explains that a simple rubbing of a hat, headband, hair or hands can cause pimples