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I am terribly sorry if you visited the Dot & Lil blog over the past 2 days and everything or anything looked strange. I was doing some technica...

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coming out of hibernation!

Ok, so I let February get me down. I have not blogged since half way through last month, which is just awful! But, as the snow melts and the skies ...

sustainable business part 2

As Dot & Lil starts to grow, we are looking for ways to minimize our carbon footprint when we undertake tasks like shipping our products. Curre...

sustainable business, part 1

Part of the original concept for Dot & Lil was that it should be a sustainable business. Minimizing our carbon footprint is one of the key oper...

links

I have been adding to the "links we like" section over the past few days. Most are fellow Montreal crafters, artisans, or really cool people! Take ...

the scents are coming the scents are coming!

I literally turn into a small child waiting to be allowed into a toy store when I am expecting a UPS delivery of fragrances and soap making supplie...

save that soap!

Well, seeing as I sold lots of soap this weekend at La Reine du Coeur Crafty Affair, I thought this might be a good time to talk about how best to ...

Le Carnival Artisanal de La Reine du Coeur!

Sooooo.....craft fair time! Dot & Lil will be participating in the Valentine's Day edition of The Rusty Plum, a show that we did just before Ch...

preservatives

I have been asked a lot lately about preservatives and whether or not we use them. The short answer is no, we do not use preservatives in any of ou...

Fragrance Madness

Thought you might like to see a picture! Here I am hard at work in the old Dot & Lil workspace (much prettier than the current one, actually!)W...

Essential Oils

This will be part of an ongoing series that discusses our ingredients and why we choose to use them. Our goal is to educate while we cleanse and hy...

By Dot and Lil on 2009-01-01

Floral Waters&Essential OilsFloral waters (also called hydrosols or flower distillate water) are great because they are so incredibly versati...