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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Saturday, February 12, 2022

New picsart pics

Made these ones of me

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1GtXgq0GRLE2Jip3FLb_7DBW3tpnbf1Pb

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1eQ9lUVivR_ZxGwMxmsoYrqVjk9XC09w1

I made another one but it didnt save so in frustration i just deleted the pp. will have to try again maybe the app aves it but I doubt theyll give me my work so easily if they have to dig around for it. Its free. It was a semi topographical nude turned green and cut out and pasted on an image of an artists redition of a wormhole. Actually i looked at the pics and it looks like how adaw met ave remember that story i came up with the three realms the paychedelic one, the one with more people and the one woth le people and why and how it was so trippy lol i must have been maliciously given pcp or something cos indidnt know i was crazy at the time. Oh well ce la vie as its said in a foreign language life is beautiful and it is what you make of it.

Saturday, May 02, 2020

bergamot tip !

im making a bergamot recreation and its already super realistic with 6 ingredients! just found 5 more to add in small amounts. im only using essential oils and its a lot of fun, like doing a puzzle or mind game, if you like those.... been making dilutions all day and im so glad i invested in 100 tiny bottles! .30 cents a piece is a small price to pay for the convenience of use! so many dilutions!
ive made a few formulas for other perfume ideas and some of the accords i made are turning out really well. if i didnt get that thanaka lime also known as persian lime (its those little black ones for food) which is citrus x latifolia (key lime and lemon) i wouldnt have been able to make this wonderful bergamot recreation!
some of the ingredients im using are
bitter orange (citrus x aurantium) respiratory, lemon (citrus limon), blood orange (citrus x sinensis), ...... woops ! dont want to give it all away! specially now that im getting better. at making perfume formulas. its like when you get that click in your head..all my years of reading and learning and smelling are now exploding and i kind of finally know what the heck im doing making these perfumes. so this one is all essential oils. if i get these oils as therapeutic grade this blend would be the best! cos its got so many other beneficial plants in it ... this blend would be great as an

oil and it will be my first experiment with roller bottles and making a "perfume oil" but actually its an aromatherapy blend... but dont tell anyone that! atomizer blend! its for my lungs, a stimulant, it will refresh your system (conceptually) im reading about the medicinal properties of the individual chemical constituents in the oils im using to "recreate bergamot" which has an interesting lineage! but i think calling it a perfume would be more chic. i think im going to call it Bergamot 41.... for my "original" birthday creation. of course i had a little help along the way from all the little avatars on basenotes..... (a lot of help in the form of nudges i got from comments and posts and i would make mental notes while doing the work of smelling/memory and creation) if it works out its a simple accord and also a complicated formula. I got the lime to rework the cannabis accord actually.. wanted to try to make a bergamot with lemonile and triplal but will play with these maybe have a version with a.c.'s to add structure and longevity and strength.. and while trying to find out what triplal and lemonile was and how it could be bergamot, i ended up making a bergamot, 1, because i go a nature identical "essential oil" and a real one from the same vendor but drat could not find the bergamot, which has aired out. i did however have my old sample still and used it as a reference instead but have been using my suppliers analysis to recreate the bergamot. it would also be good as a tincture or super dilution as a flavouring there is ... ok i will give up more ingredients... hyssop (hyssopum officianalis and chamomile (chamomelum nobille) blood thinner which are beneficial get so excited with dumb things i learn i want to tell everyone and find out what they know about it too. im such a doofus of course everyone hates this kind of behaviour. when i made the second version and smelled my last bergamot sample from new directions as a comparison i could not believe how accurate my choices were!!! of course it needed fleshing out but wow! ive never done this before picture me on the sofa on the coffee table all these bottles everywhere sniffing one palm then the other giggling with glee and shock (the bergamot from new directions was inexpensive though, do you think it was diluted, the sample on wikipedia is green almost like olive and ive never bought one like that) (i wondered if after all the good stuff was done how many more passes ethyl alcohol will have on the pressed peels) interesting bit is learning about the history of lime, which originated from a philippine citrus, from the south, not for food use but rather cosmetic in use due to its use as a shampoo (the citric acid i suppose closes the hair shaft, cleanses the scalp, and makes the hair very shiny and the oil makes the hair fragrant) it might have also coloured the hair to orange or lighter brown because of the high bergapten in the oil. which is photosensitive, then down the line as the fruit was passed along as a gift- because it would have been rather precious to tend to a live plant across the ocean if they were just using huge galleons at the time. . .i guess they brought seeds but the live plant as a gift is def the way to go and totally believeable because why import a plant that has no nutritional value (oh wait..scurvy) at some point this lime was crossed with lemon to make the key lime probably adding more pulp as described in wiki, then this fruit was paired with the bitter orange to make bergamot . . . the rest is history !-- ok wait im a bit confused here. so citrus micrantha is bred citrus limon and then with bitter orange to make bergamot. in world war 2 italy was banned from exporting bergamot by the allied forces (united nations) to tone down their aggression during the war so other countries took over the bergamot trade for a while using sweet limes from brazil so the smell is not the same which is why (maybe) there are two bergamot oils. the original one and the fake one. and also to note bergamot oil i guess is classified as a fragrance oil because it was bred for cosmetic use. isnt that a weird spin. there isnt much study on the medicinal effects of bergamot as of 2017. the poison is the dose is why the original limes were small and had not much juice. the strength of the scent carried it through and its origin was not lost because the fragrance could be traced. much like language and genes.

I wrote a piece.
Short one.
Based on the interviews and articles I scoured the internet for.
Wow I love this mans life. His brain. Also I thought he was sexiest at ages 40-50 and again at ages 70-83 (because by 85 he gained weight again, but, I would still love him) Can you believe it. Have you seen a hottie woman at age 75? Let me see the picture.

Anyway this is what I wrote. I want to update this post with all the great articles, interviews and videos I found.

.:
quality was lost
there is no ugly vintage.
“bad taste came after, with the industrial era”
luxurious products are exclusive by price due to the quality of craftsmanship and paramount design.
when the quality fell, the talentless flourished, bad taste became the norm.
the beauty of well and long crafted pieces and objects vanished with
the new rise of modernism, fast food, minimalism, the attention civilization lost on object creation by an individual has caused a rift in the collective psyches concept of worth in a way that disconnects the self from environment. the cause and effect concept has become diluted and washed thin which diminishes the value of time spent reflecting the origins of our world while creating a simple meal from scratch, hemming a piece of cloth, to building an entire city.
the standard of quality has always been defined by luxury, but when money becomes disconnected from its origin luxury becomes distasteful and stale.
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There are no pictures of Karl Lagerfeld undressed. Not a single one! I cannot find a inch of his skin apart from his face, neck, and hands. Amazing!


"If fashion is your trade then when you're naked you must be unemployed"

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Lilac - Syringa Vulgaris Botanical Illustration

Aromatherapy Toronto

Lilac Soap

Finely crafted Handmade 100% Coconut oil soap

Free Poster for download for personal use (gift making, scrapbooking, inspiration, etc.)

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DIY!
Support local thoughts and products, produce and manufacture!

The fragrance I used is a mixture of Lilac fragrance and naturals.

There are a couple formulations so there are two distinct labels.

This soap has aroma molecules blended to smell like Lilac, and natural isolates to enhance the fragrance and longevity of scent.

Hand drawn illustration by me.

This formula contains coumarin, a natural isolate, also known as Tonka Bean. Smells sweet and nice. Since this is a restricted ingredient in the fragrance industry you are meant to label it if it is above 100 ppm for rinse off products (.01% for rinse off and .001% for leave on products) so the ingredient is listed because it is at ~~.125%~~ .06% for this Lilac fragrance blend I made for this batch of soap (this is why lot numbers are essential for cosmetic labeling) and also for those obsessed with this scent. It causes an allergy to 1.2-6.8% of patients with suspected fragrance contact allergy according to this study: https://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_sccp/docs/sccp_o_061.pdf
Here is another article on Coumarin https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsomega.7b00562

large bars and mini soaps

Purchase these from me on Etsy, Im selling three sets! They are packaged as pictured!

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/665994920/fresh-lilac-rebatch-bar

Other soaps available!

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Published on

12/18/18, 11:55 AM
Eastern Standard Time

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

MANDALAS vs MKICRATTZZI

Saturday, February 12, 2022

New picsart pics

Saturday, May 02, 2020

bergamot tip !

Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Why I was so affected by the passing of Karl Lagerfeld

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Lilac - Syringa Vulgaris Botanical Illustration

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

MANDALAS vs MKICRATTZZI

Saturday, February 12, 2022

New picsart pics

Saturday, May 02, 2020

bergamot tip !

Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Why I was so affected by the passing of Karl Lagerfeld

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Lilac - Syringa Vulgaris Botanical Illustration

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