[ruby2]

Hoozey, sorry I read that wrong, but it still sounds great! Where do you buy your liquid OO castille soap? It sounds fun to try. I had no idea how labor intensive some of these things are. Icecookies, thanks for all that info! You should write a book or something about all of this-you know ALOT and I am so impressed. Do you think you'll start your own company down the road?

[Thumper~]

Oh me ... I'm not so interested in starting my own company (that's just toooo daunting and besides, I have horses that keep me very busy!) but you can bet there are those here who could handle it in a snap!

Not this girl ... !

[Hoozey]

Originally Posted by ruby2

Hoozey, sorry I read that wrong, but it still sounds great! Where do you buy your liquid OO castille soap? It sounds fun to try. I had no idea how labor intensive some of these things are. Icecookies, thanks for all that info! You should write a book or something about all of this-you know ALOT and I am so impressed. Do you think you'll start your own company down the road?

I'll pm you the company that I buy the OO soap from. It is a really decent price and feels wonderful!

[Thumper~]

Oh man ... I still can't see links in threads! I need to make more posts but one of these days I'll see what the heck everyone's talking about. LOL!

[Yola]

Hoozey where do you buy the liquid soap? Please PM me too. Thanks. Icecookie could you PM me how you did it without a book? Thanks

[ALoHa]

Congratulations Cookies.

But for me

I'll just keep hunting for sales. With the sales, samples, and prices being so affordable for already made things I'll just keep having my fun that way Plus every week I'm seeing something on one of the sites that I really would love to have. Like Milans eye gelles, liners, and those perfumes. I can't see myself stopping wanting the new things that they all make and with the reviews on the boards for other companies and their sales I'd have a list of must buy this and that on the makeup sites and a lot of supplies sitting at home.

[AngelaGM]

That sounds like fun=)

[Ronnie]

Ice Cookies can you post some of your pictures of what you made?
Was it really easy for somebody with no book?
Do you have instructions or a website that gave you instructions? Thanks.

[nomi]

Originally Posted by icecookies

No problem Thumper. I'll email you and send you some links and notes.

icecookies, could you count me in and pm me any extra info please? thanks a bunch I think this is awesome!

[Thumper~]

Icecookies should be named Princess, because that's what she is. She's so helpful and sweet and kind ... Well heck, all of y'all are! But Ice says it's FUN to make her own mineral makeup. THAT remains to be seen ... It doesn't take a whole lot to confuse me! LOL!

[icecookies]

Originally Posted by Thumper~

Icecookies should be named Princess, because that's what she is. She's so helpful and sweet and kind ... Well heck, all of y'all are! But Ice says it's FUN to make her own mineral makeup. THAT remains to be seen ... It doesn't take a whole lot to confuse me! LOL!

Thank you Thumper for your sweet comments. I wondered if you got my email. If you want more notes I'll be glad to email them to you but I thought that the one that I sent you and those websites were really the ones that I used and that really made it all simple for me. Please keep us up to date on if you take the plunge or not. It'll only take you 1 or 2 full days to really get it all going and done. Once you start then you'll start duplicating other colors that you love. But guess what? I'm already bored with it. Maybe because I've got a ton of enough makeup now to last me for many many years and warm weather is here so I'm moving onto something else. Shopping for sandles, bags, and cruisewear!

But go for your first try by all means. If nothing else you'll have a perfect foundation for yourself and lots of blushes, shadows, bronzers, and all over face colors! Plus something to do if ever bored in the winter.

Originally Posted by nomi

icecookies, could you count me in and pm me any extra info please? thanks a bunch I think this is awesome!

You got it Nomi!

I wish my BF's were as interested as you ladies are They love my products but haven't asked once for a link or a note.

[Savvy_lover]

i wish i was still in us . in hk there is NOTHING like MMU~ none !!!! ppl here stil use horrible acne causing makeup >_< i came back after christmas and i asked if they haveit and they dont ~ they dun even know what MMU means.... :'( poor ppl

[icecookies]

Originally Posted by Ronnie

Ice Cookies can you post some of your pictures of what you made?
Was it really easy for somebody with no book?
Do you have instructions or a website that gave you instructions? Thanks.

I am taking pics now of many of my highlighters, shadows, and blushes and I will post them this week. Here is a link to the best basic site. Just use this as a base or a guidline and work from this. If you want to add hydrolyzed oat powder, squalene, vitamin E, or allantoin then just add a little lavender extract in your base too to act as a preservative. I learned all of this from a lady named Jenn on this site. She is extremely knowledgeable and will answer all of your questions. She's also full of links and notes and will share freely. I can't say enough good things about her really. Here's the link to where I found out really how to do this and where you can get your questions answered.http://forums.delphiforums.com/miy1/start

Here is another site with free recipes and you can also buy supplies from this site. I haven't bought anything from them so I can't vouch for the service or for the products but I did find the free recipes very useful for making my own, though I didn't follow the recipes. You know kind of like making chili or spaghetti, you get the idea of basically what is needed for ingredients and then you go from there.

Recipes for the crafter of mineral makeup
To make cosmetics Naturally:

Making your own cosmetics

By Joan Trebilcock, RN http://www.sweetscents.com

How to make your natural cosmetics:

Making cosmetics for personal use, and to sell is a growing hobby for crafters and professionals alike. Many folks are unsure of how micas and other mineral pigments can be used to color not only makeup, but also bath & hair gels, liquid soaps, bubble baths, and in soap making.
All of Sweetscents micas are ready to use right from the container, or you can "tweak" any color with the addition of another of our micas. Here we try to answer a few of those questions.
How can I make matte makeup eye shadows or eyeliners?
To create a line of matte eye shadows or eyeliners, you need to start with a base of white matte mica titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, boron nitride or the sericite base, all available at Sweetscents. If you wish to make a shimmer or low luster eye shadow or eyeliner, we suggest starting with mineral mica such as Snowflake or White Pearl. All of the products are completely natural and no chemicals are added to them.
Minerals and or oxides are used to create the longwearing quality shades of eye shadows and eyeliners. Frequently the eyeliners are applied with a wet eyeliner brush using the eye shadow as this makes them more dramatic. To use wet, take a liner brush, get it wet and pick up a small amount of the color you want to line with, make a paste on the back of your clean hand, then apply like you would a normal eye liner. Carefully apply to upper and/or lower lids starting as close to the lashes as possible.
The colors when used wet, they are easily blendable, and dry to a beautiful satin finish, and last till they are removed. When applying wet, the colors will dry quickly, but if they dry before your done blending, just dampen your brush and blend them till you like the look, then let dry.
For a smudged look, using your shadow brush, dip just the tip of the brush into loose powder, and then tap the brush on the side of the container to remove any excess powder. Brush gently on your lids, crease, or where ever you desire the color. To smudge the color, take a dry angled brush and simply move the color to the desired area, to blend one color or area into another color or area. Repeat the process till the look you want is achieved.
If you are wanting to create your very own matte finish color palate and want to mix your minerals from the start, we suggest using the white matte mica, along with either boron nitride, or sericite to increase adhesion to the skin, and a blend of iron oxides such as red, yellow, green, black and purple oxides which are available at Sweetscents. You will find the ingredients for blending your own color on the Sweetscents.com page titled "More Mica", under the heading of "Cosmetic Grade Mixing Powders" You will need to grind well the oxides into the micas and boron nitride or sericite to prevent streaking of your colors.
If you prefer not to mix your own colors, all of our minerals are available preblended, and ready to use soon as you get them by simply opening the minerals, and grabbing your mineral makeup brush and apply the minerals to your skin. These colors are found on the website under every heading with the exception of the "Cosmetic Grade Mixing Powder" area.
One of our customers has shared her method of making what she called a universal cream to powder blush. She said she used a tiny amount of our "Romance" color, and a tiny amount of our "Angelique" color and to that added a drop of water, and also a drop of glycerin, and stirred it to a cream consistency, and applied it by a tiny drop of color, and soon as it comes in contact with the skin, the creamy texture turns to powder. A little of this will go a long way, so you don’t need much. To get the color to a darker intensity, just apply another drop and work in with your brush. It lasts all day
A great tip for the mineral makeup from Sweetscents.com is that the mineral micas are naturally hydrophobic. If you swim, don't worry about your minerals washing off. All you need do when you come out of the pool is to gently blot your makeup, rather than rubbing it, and you will be able to retain most of that fabulous look.
Lip-gloss formula. Why doesn’t the color show up??
When formulating the recipe to be made into lip-gloss there are several things to consider. If you’re using the formula of oil and wax, you need to keep it soft enough to allow the mica minerals to show up. If the wax is hard, the color is unable to shine through. We suggest creating your color shades using a combination of different cosmetic micas. The iron oxides will make beautiful purples, and deep reds depending on the amount of oxide you use, the more used, the more dramatic the finished color will be. Only use a tiny amount of oxides, to keep the lip formula from feeling gritty.
The three ingredients that are not approved in the USA to be used in lip products are Chromium Oxide, Iron Blue and Cyanide, however are fine for any other toiletries application. All the ingredients on each color are listed on the Sweetscents website under the heading of INCI info. If you are outside of the United States of America, you will have to check your particular countrys approved ingredients.
Many folks like to use the petroleum jelly type products, and simply add mica to it, and mix well, which will provide a nice over coating of the lips. Also very reasonable to make or to buy is oils such as vitamin E, shea butter, or mineral oil. Many folks make a liquid by simply blending all these together well, and adding mica, which will also gives lots of shine to the lips, and with the vitamin E and the she butter oil, also moisturizes the lips. The clearer the solution you add the mineral micas to, the more the sparkly tone it will give off. Mica needs to have light refraction in order to shimmer. Dip a clean lip brush into your clear lip gloss/lip balm and then into loose powder. Apply the mix to your lips and blend well.
Here is a great tip from one of our customers Cindy, in Utah that you may find very helpful. She graciously allowed us to post it:
Just thought I'd pass on this little tip for keeping the micas suspended when making lip butter as it works better than anything else I've tried (I teach lip butter making so I've made A LOT of these babies over the last few years- made over 150 just today).

I buy those little plastic condiment cups from a restaurant supply place- I get the 1/2 oz. size and I buy a package of lids while I am at it. I will prepare my lip butter base and have it melted, ready to go, in a pyrex measuring cup. I sweeten my base after it's melted.

I place the mica I need for one lip butter pot into the condiment cup- this is your chance to mix colors etc. before you are committed. Next, add the flavor and fill the condiment cup about 1/2 full with base. I stir it with a popsicle stick making sure to scrape the sides as I go. When the base cools to the point that it starts to harden a little on the sides but is still liquid in the middle, I know that I can pour it without the mica sinking to the bottom. I'll scrape the little bit that has set up into the middle to remelt it then pour it quickly and cleanly into the lip butter pot. Don't put the lid on until it cools.

The result is a smooth top and evenly mixed mica- no sinking. You'll also have a perfectly clean container since you did the mixing in the condiment cup. You might have to try this a few times before you can recognize the perfect pour point. If you don't get it quite right, put the condiment cup in the microwave for 15 seconds to remelt and try again. If it is lumpy and you've already poured it into the container, put the container in the microwave for 10 seconds or so. Not enough to completely remelt it but enough to make it soft. Then tap the soft mixture on the counter to settle the contents. Again, wait until the product cools completely to put on the lid.

If you have extra lip butter in your condiment cup when you're done pouring, just put the plastic condiment cup lid on it and you can save it for later or use it to refill the lip butter pot when it is empty.
One of my customers also used her hair dryer to re-melt the top of the lip butter that was lumpy. It worked like a charm she said- I haven't tried this myself though.
It actually happened because I do a lot of birthday parties for girls and they always made such a mess mixing in the containers. I did it initially to cut down on the mess but ultimately found it kept the mica from sinking as a bonus!
If you are making lip glosses, an easy formulation to use is to add melted lanolin into your oil in a water bath, if you don’t want to use lanolin, substitute glycerin or honey, however the latter ingredients sometimes separate out. You can use beeswax in the formulation to harden it; however too much will make it stiff and hard. When your oil & wax preparation is melted, stir in your micas and oxides…pour into your lip-gloss tubes or jars when still just slightly warm. If you pour it into your jars or tubes when to warm, the micas and oxides will tend to sink to the bottom, so do it as late as you can in the process.
You can keep the mica color suspended if you pour the warm lip preparation into your lip tube, or jar, and immediately cover the tube or jar with a small piece of plastic and place the lid on, and invert it till it cools. You can also apply lip color when you apply a good lip gloss base, and blend your mica minerals over the lip gloss. Add more powder for a darker look, then wait about 10 minutes before blotting, and then lightly blot as its sets itself on your lips and wont come off till you remove it. To keep the glossy look, simply apply more lip gloss during the day. It is removed easily with soapy water or makeup remover or a baby wipe.
How do I use the micas to color my bath gels, hair gels, shampoos and lotions?
In order for your product to be colored, you will want to use the mica minerals in a thick gel consistency to keep the mica particles suspended. If you want a pearly look to your formulation, we suggest using white pearl mica, for a sparkly look you might like our Diamond Cluster or our absolutely fabulous City Lights Evening Star, which is a large sized particle, and gives off total diamond looking glitz.