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Wow, is it really Christmas? Raymond, little Sasja, and I want to thank you all so much for your kindness and support of the blog and our family this year! 2020 has been an absolutely mind-bogglingly bad year with the pandemic and fires and murder hornets and brain-eating amoebas and everything else that’s happened, so we’re … Read more
I cannot find the post I wrote on this anywhere, so I either didn’t publish it or only imagined I shared this, so if you’ve seen it before, I apologize for the duplication. A helpful tip for making lotions, conditioners, and other emulsions: Don’t mix by hand. I’m sure the idea of “hand churned” lotions...
Let’s update our review page to see what we learned in part four of the series on viscosity before we start part five, surface tension. (You can find the home page for this combining emollients series by clicking here!) The larger the spreading value of an emollient, the lighter it’ll feel on your skin. The...
Welcome to section four, part five of this series on combining emollients! In this part of the series, we’ll be making an anhydrous body oil (one without water) with all the information we have about viscosity and spreading values to see how those might impact the choices we make to create a smooth cascade of...
Welcome to section four, part five of this series on combining emollients! In this part of the series, we’ll be making an anhydrous body oil (one without water) with all the information we have about viscosity and spreading values to see how those might impact the choices we make to create a smooth cascade of...