In the beginning..

I put in an order from Tasmania last week for a few other ingredients and oils, but they haven't even charged my card yet so I'm not too sure when they'll be arriving on my doorstep.

So while I wait I've been down to Auroma in Hawthorn and have come home with a bag full of goodies. Sweet almond oil, vegetable glycerin, grapefruit seed extract, emulsifying wax, bergamont essential oil (non-phototoxic), raspberry cream flavour oil, lip balm jars and plastic cosmetic jars. I dropped into the shops on the way home and picked up some pure lavender oil, round labels and some sticky tape.

So what are all of these ingredients going to make?
Firstly, I'm going to make up some lip balm with cocoa butter. Bergamont (orange), Raspberry and Lemon Myrtle. Its a shame you can't get raspberry essential oil, so flavour it has to be.

Secondly, into the cosmetic jars will go a batch of face cream. Lavender and geranium oil are amazing together but the geranium oil is on order so I might have to see what I can put together with the oils I have already.

What is the plan?
My plan is to make up a batch of lip balm for each of the different flavours to send to Royal Doof to be sold on the stall being organised. I have 40 tubs so maybe 10 of each to begin with. To make the tubs look interesting I'm going to make up some labels to put on them. One for the bottom with ingredients and another for the top with the flavour. I'm not a designer so I don't know how great they'll look, but sometimes simple is best so I'll see how I go.

Why did you choose bare skin?
I chose the name bare skin because bare implies 'the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable'(1). I want the things that I make to be free of complex, unnecessary or hidden ingredients. Products that contain only natural perservatives and colours. With the pollutants in the air and the products we put on our skin every day it seems all the more important for the first moisturising layer to be natural. That is what I am trying to make.

Alright, time to whip together my first batch. Here we go...