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Welcome to the world of tomorrow! It’s mostly like the world of yesterday except it has a “1” at the end, but it’s still cause for celebration when the celestial odometer rolls over, eh? Welcome to the first day of the first month of the year that we’ll best this horrible virus and be allowed … Read more
Wow, this has been quite a series! Let’s review what we’ve learned and put it all together to make sense of it. Let’s recap! Click here to see the home page for this series! In section one, we took a look at the concept of combining emollients to create interesting sensory experiences. In section two,...
I know this has been a hard year, so I thought I’d focus on some of the wonderful things I’ve made and loved over the past year or two, some for skin, some for hair, and some for both! This month’s e-book, My favourite formulas of 2020, was my way of looking back over a...
Welcome back to part two of section seven of our combining emollients series! It’s been an exciting ride, and there are only a few concepts left to review before we can start playing with loads of different ones over the next few days! Yesterday, we took a look at interfacial tension and polarity. Today, we’re...
Welcome back! Join me today as we take a look at how interfacial tension and polarity of a molecule can influence the spreading values, viscosity, and more. Then we’ll take a look at molecular structure, shape, size, and weight tomorrow before practising all this wonderful stuff we’ve been learning in this series! Let’s recap! Click...