I bought Sarafina!!!

[Xarata]

Karen, I have the ingredient's list for a few of his other products. It's not recipes but if you felt like playing with them, they were loved:

http://forums.delphiforums.com/mineralm ... sg=13940.1

*Also, the foaming cleanser came in a foaming pump bottle just in case that wasn't shared with the recipe. Bob really got hooked on it and my mom liked it too. I loved it for summer.
I second Rhys on the fruit enzyme facial. I kept mine in the shower though and label dissolved. Do you have ingredients Rhys?

Silk Cleansing Balm- souffle consistency. yuzu scented. INGREDIENTS: spring water, stearic acid, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Sweet Almond Butter, Avocade Butter, Grapeseed oil, polysorbate 20, vegetable glycerin, pearl powder, silk powder, methylsulfonylmethane, decyl glucoside, cocamide DEA, Allantoin, germall plus, aromatic oil (yuzu scent)

Anti-Aging Sunscreen- IINGREDIENTS: hyalauronic acid, octyl methoxycinnamate, oxybenzone, vegetable emulsifying wax, algae extract complex: [nannochloropsis oculata extract and pulullan], acetyl hexapeptide-7, vegetable glycerin, apricot kernel oil, c12-15 alkyl benzoate, cetyl esters, stearic acid, cyclomethicone, tocopherol acetate, creatine, absynnian oil, acai oil, blueberry seed oil, kiwi seed seed oil, pomegranate seed oil, cationic guar gum, germall plus

Foaming Bath Melt-I love Love LOVE this. I ration out my stock very carefully. It waaaaay indulgent and moisturizing. A single use size was around 1/4 cup i think. INGREDIENTS: sodium bicarbonate, citric acid, sodium sulfacetate, cocoa butter, shea butter, mango butter, sweet almond oil, polysorbate 20, aromatic oil (english rose)

Pure Life Body Wash *Discontinued*-my fav. scent was coconut lemongrass. it reminded me of a spa. INGREDIENTS: olefin sulfonate, decyl glucoside, coco betaine, aloe vera leaf juice, sorbitol, glycol stearate, cocamide DEA, PEG-7 glyceryl cocoate, shea butter, myreth-10 adipate, hydrolyzed soy protein, [chamomilla recutita (matricaria) flower extract, salvia officinalis (sage) leaf extract, urtica dioica (nettle) extract, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract (and) aloe leaf extract], pentaerythrityltetrastearate, germall plus, aromatic oil, disodium EDTA.

[zeebs]

I don't know Sarafina, but I'm excited to try!!! That's fantastic, karen

[Shirin]

Congratulations Karen!!

I am so happy for you! You know I have a vrey strong intuition and sometimes I can even foresee the futur, I wanted to let you know that I have a certain feeling that you will be extremely succesful soon!
One can tell even from online that you are a correct person with integrety and besides being good at one does, that is just as much important for success, there is a reason for everything in life and if one listens to one's inner voice and believes in it, one will always succeed! Believe in your dreams, always!

I was thinking that if you need anything I could do for you, like for example, if you want to put up pics of women without and with make-up on your site for publicity, pics of ordinary women like us, and not take the hassle of employing a model, you have a volunteer here, would be glad to help. (My husband is a brilliant photographer, not professional, but he is teh photographer at his work, and he has a great Nikon D 700 camera)

Best of luck to you, will pray for your success.

Mahsa

[eekypooh]

wow, the Silk Cleansing Balm sounds really interesting... never heard of Sarafina, but anything Karen makes, I'd love to try! ^__^

[krenee]

I really liked the Silk Cleansing Balm. He was giving away samples of it I think and I got one after asking for one on MMM - it was the consistency of yogurt or maybe a little thinner - my skin will freak about everything for no reason and it was very gentle and didn't cause any reactions. Marcey is exactly right though, when I went to buy it he had discontinued it. That was the only thing I had a chance to try. The other girls are very correct - he pulled products on and off the website so quickly that by the time you had a chance to read about something you were interested in trying (there were a lot of posts about his products on MMM) that product was gone. There was some Yuzu Mango body butter that I remember wanting to try also - and those bath melts that Sam mentioned, I think?

[zeebs]

Congratulations Karen!!

I am so happy for you! You know I have a vrey strong intuition and sometimes I can even foresee the futur, I wanted to let you know that I have a certain feeling that you will be extremely succesful soon!
One can tell even from online that you are a correct person with integrety and besides being good at one does, that is just as much important for success, there is a reason for everything in life and if one listens to one's inner voice and believes in it, one will always succeed! Believe in your dreams, always!

I was thinking that if you need anything I could do for you, like for example, if you want to put up pics of women without and with make-up on your site for publicity, pics of ordinary women like us, and not take the hassle of employing a model, you have a volunteer here, would be glad to help. (My husband is a brilliant photographer, not professional, but he is teh photographer at his work, and he has a great Nikon D 700 camera)

Best of luck to you, will pray for your success.

Mahsa

I like that suggestion of before/after. That's a good idea! I love seeing other everyday women in advertising photos (preferably not digitally enhanced) instead of models. It helps us see an attainable version of beauty, not an air-brushed fantasy person.

[new2pgh]

That's great news! Bill had some great products...can't wait to see the SN skincare line expand

[Rhys]

I second Rhys on the fruit enzyme facial. I kept mine in the shower though and label dissolved. Do you have ingredients Rhys?

Hi Sam -

I think Karen bought the Fruit Enzyme Facial formula, but yes, I have the ingredients: Spring Water, Vegetable Emulsifying Wax, Vegetable Glycerin, Olea Europea Fruit Oil, Castor Bean Oil, Avocado Fruit Oil, Gotu Kola Extract, Wheat Germ Oil, Sunflower Seed Oil, Bentonite Clay, Guar Gum, Essential Oils of Sweet Orange and Rosewood.

Sam, you wouldn't by any chance have the recipe for those great little cleansing plus exfoliation pads Bill used to make would you? I truly loved those, have kept in touch with Bill from time to time, but he told me he didn't keep the formula, dammit. They were so convenient, they worked, and were the only cleansing or exfo pads I could ever use.

[pinkpomelo]

I've never heard of Sarafina either. And yes, the Silk Cleansing Balm sounds wonderful -- Yuzu scented! That's a pomelo -- haha! I love Pomelos!!!

[Xarata]

Rhys-So sorry, i don't. I only ever had a sample jar (it was a really large sample jar from the beginning of sarafina) and you know how he wasn't always good about listing ingredients on products. I'm sure it had aloe vera leaf juice in it (everything he made did) and obviously a percentage of AHA.

Some ingredients from other natural places that seem to go along with Bill's choices:

radiant skin clinic: Purified Water, Glycolic Acid, Witch Hazel, Ammonium Hydroxide, Polysorbate-20, disodium EDTA, Sodium Benzoate, Menthol, Acetone, Imidazolidinyl Urea. (i don't love on the acetone and menthol in this one though. lol)

Desert Essence: Witch Hazel, Grain Alcohol (Organic), Eco-harvest Tea Tree Oil (Melaleuca Alternifolia), Calendula (Organic), Chamomile German (Organic), Lavender Spike, Lemongrass Oil (Organic), Extract of Chamomile, Goldenseal, Hawaiian White Ginger, Bladderwrack, Neem Oil

MMBB AHA Toner: Water, Grapeseed Oil,Jojoba Oil, Emulsifying Wax NF, Palm Stearic Acid, Evening Primrose Oil, Vitamin E, Phenoxyethanol, Witch Hazel, Xanthan Gum , Organic Black Willowbark Extract, Mannan, Neem Oil,Rosemary Oleoresin, Tetrasodium EDTA, Citric Acid

Have you tried the MMBB toner? I'm sure you could get a screw top jar and some cotton rounds and MAKE your own AHA pads soaked in the toner. just a thought. i know if karen made it based off of that one she'd probably ditch the phenoxyethanol