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How to make a chocolate shampoo

20 Feb By 4 Comments

How to make a chocolate shampoo

Chocolate has now moved from the category of goodies into the ranks of popular cosmetic ingredients. Chocolate body wraps, masks, lip balms added with grated cocoa conquer the cosmetics industry with its first use. Chocolate cosmetics can transform not only the skin but also the hair. We will show you how to make chocolate shampoo that gives hair shine and softness, as well as significantly increasing the amount of hair.

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We will need:

  • - 55 grams of chamomile hydrosol
  • - The basis for shampoo Organic 30g
  • - Cocoa beans 5 g
  • - Soluble castor oil 3 g
  • - Peptides cottonseed protein 3 g
  • - 2 g of cetyl alcohol
  • - Lactic acid, 1 g
  • - Phenoxyethanol 0.8 g
  • - Chocolate mousse flavor 0.2 g

Weigh hydrosol and put it in a heated water bath.
Cocoa mass, cetyl alcohol, and water-soluble castor oil should also be weighed and put in a water bath until they are completely melted.
Pour the hot chocolate mass into a hot hydrosol.

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$175 Undereye cream, 3 winners!

15 Dec By 44 Comments

If you know anything about me at all you know that I love all products beauty and fashion related. I’ll try just about any face cream, shampoo, makeup, or lotion at least once. In fact, I can think of 6 kinds of shampoo currently sitting around my tub at the moment.

I can’t help it.

It’s a sickness.

When I was younger everyone would tell me how young I looked. I hated it. When I was 18, I was told I couldn’t be more than 12. When I was 21..I looked 16. Now at nearly 34, I am happy to look like an adult, but I would give anything to have the “you look like your 21″ again speech.

Well…you know…come to think of it, when C and I were on our way back from Disney a lady at the gas station said she thought we were sisters till I learned in and said something to her and she realized I was her mother. It made me feel warm and fuzzy.

No matter how many products I have tried there are a few things I have learned that hold true:

1) If you live a stress free life, your face and skin will reflect that.

2) Stay away from smoke and smoking

3) Its never too early for good lotion. Ever. If you have a 5 year old daughter, teach that girl about SPF now.

And if you somehow missed all that growing up, you turn to advanced products to help stop, reverse, or at least hide, the affects of aging. Right now as a single mom to two kids, I cannot tell you the amount of times I get to wake up with black circles under my eyes. So I was super interested when Artistry by Amway came out with an under eye circle cream and presented it to MomDot to share with you.

About Artistry
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Creme Luxury Eye is the newest product from Amway’s Artistry.

Unlike most eye creams, Creme LuXury Eye targets the signs of aging that impact both the upper and lower eye areas, delivering a total 360˚ transformation around the eye. The creme contains CellEffect technology, featuring Cardiolipin (worth 30 times its weight in gold), which re-energizes the skin and boosts its natural ability to repair, helping it act up to 15 years younger and reduce the appearance of wrinkles.

At $175, the price point is fairly high, I am not going to deny that. Most luxury creams are, but you are talking to a girl that spends $80 a bottle on Shampoo…so if something works, Ill pay it.

For your upper eye area –

  • Visibly lifting the eye area, giving it a look of energy and vitality.
  • Reducing the appearance of saggy skin around the eyes.
  • Increasing firmness and elasticity for more supple skin in the eye area.
  • Helping sculpt the eye area for a lifted look.

For your lower eye area –

  • Reducing the appearance of dark circles.
  • Visibly smoothing puffiness.
  • Softening the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles in the under eye area.
  • Helping prevent visible fine lines with a moisture surge.
  • Diminishing the appearance of expression lines.

The real question is…does it work?

I can’t tell you.

Yet.

I have some on the way to me and I’ll update if I see dramatic results.

 

Giveaway

For now, Artistry by Amway has offered THREE MomDot Visitors a chance to have their own full size bottle worth $175 to help lift their eyes and combat that “mommy looks like she is going to kill someone if she doesn’t get some sleep” look. If you cant get real sleep, the next best thing is to LOOK fresh, am I right?

 


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How to get Big, Celebrity Hair

31 Mar By 20 Comments

The other day, after changing my profile picture on Facebook, my friend Cat from the blog 3KidsandUs made this comment:

 

And so I thought…is there a secret to big hair?

To be honest, good hair is something that is often made, not something everyone is born with.  You can have crappy hair and still get it back to soft and silky. I know in my life I have had pink hair, green hair, bleached  out hair; hair has been something of a hobby of mine. I have messed up my hair so badly in the past that I have had to cut it above my ears.

Really.

*you dont want to see those shots….”Elf” is not a style I rock well.

So I wanted to share with her (and you) a few tips on how to get your hair “fluffy”. I call my personally preferred style “Celebrity from the 90′s” or A La Cindy Crawford.

Health

Whether you choose to have your hair long or keep it up to your shoulders, maintaining your hair health is as important as maintaining any other part of your body. As a teenager I used to get my color out of a box, but as an adult I bite the bullet and go to a professional salon. Somewhere along the line I learned that putting chemicals into your hair does require some sort of skill. While I am educated on bleach, color, and everything in between out of experience, I take my knowledge to a professional and have them do the dirty work in the end.

As a result of my alternating bleach and color from season to season, I do not take lightly the maintenance of deep conditioning ( I do Professional Keratin treatments every 6 weeks) and the times I have to let my hair ‘rest’ by not blowing out every day. I also use quality shampoos and conditioners.

My top choice for Shampoo and Conditioner if budget isn’t an issue? Pureology.

But getting big hair is something that takes practice and here are a few steps that I found work for me.

How to get Big Hair

Step #1: First wash and condition as normal.

Step #2: At this point most people would go for the blow dryer and curling brush. However I found that what works even better is to let your hair dry naturally…no brush to flatten it out. I usually just put up in a pony tail and let it air dry for a few hours and then let down. If it still has some tinges of wet to it, Ill then take a blow dryer and finger dry the rest of the way. Don’t worry about what it looks like, it will probably be messy and crazy.

That is OK.

Ignore your husbands sideways looks at this point.

(Step 1 – Step3)

Step #3: After its dry, I pull half my hair half way up so my under layer is visible and take a 1 inch to a 1 1/2 inch barrel ( I use a Revlon curling iron where you can set the heat..it cost me about $9.99 and I set on the highest setting of 30) and hand curl the under part. Then I slowly let down layer after layer curling each section as I go.

This process can take 5-20 minutes depending on length and thickness. Because your goal isn’t to have even curls around your head and you just need to get it curled in general, do not worry about how it looks AS you curl it. It takes me about 20 minutes and I have a TON of hair.

I watch cop TV while I do it. Goes by quick.

Note about Revlon Curling Iron: I found that it works great, although the reviews of it online are poor. Your hand DOES go over the dial that changes heat setting, that’s a badly executed design, but for $10 at Walmart, I have been using it for 6 months with no issues…I would buy a new one if this one broke.

Step #4: Once its curled, I turn my head upside down and fluff up with my fingers and flip my head back up.

At this point you can choose to spray it if you like with hairspray (I do not) or use some kind of smoother depending on your hair type. I prefer to put a few squirts of Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrient Spray (which is a leave in conditioner) in it while its still upside down and then turn over and smooth. Don’t go overboard if you use that…it has natural oils in it and can make your hair greasy if you over spray.

I found my hold stays the entire day, even without hairspray, and the curls make for a cute pony tail if you decide to put up.

Here is the finished look:

If you have tips to maintain healthy and big hair, feel free to leave in the comments!

 

~Trisha

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