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I’ve been getting a lot of questions about this blog and the new site, so I thought I’d address them here. 1. This blog isn’t going anywhere. What you see here is what will remain here for the most part. (This will be referred to as the “old blog”.) We simply can’t import more than...
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about this blog and the new site, so I thought I’d address them here. 1. The old blog isn’t going anywhere. (That’s the one you read at swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.ca) What you see there is what will remain here for the most part. We simply can’t import more than 2,900...
Packaging is such a huge and important topic, and it’s one I haven’t written about much for some strange reason. (When I did a search on the old blog to gather resources for a question posed by Carmencita in the Patreon: January 2017 Q&A section, I realized how little I’ve written about it.) There’s just so...
In the January 2018 Q&A post, Linda asked: I am not sure if you have posted about using the Vitaplex from Lotioncrafter*, but if you have I can’t seem to find it. It says it is for hair and skin, but the required pH seems to be a bit high for hair, so that has me...
In this post, How can we adapt our formulas to be more natural: Gelling agents, Catherin asked: What is the meaning of positive and negative charge? I wrote about this topic in this post on the blog – Anionic, cationic, and non-ionic – but I realized I’ve learned so much since 2011 and there are...