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SwiftCraftyMonkey To everyone who has written to me in the last week or to those of you wondering why I haven’t posted…I’m sorry I haven’t been more available, but I’ll try to get to your emails and write some posts tomorrow. My schedule is such that I have been out of the house every night (after...
I just received a donation of these metal candle making moulds from Voyageur Soap & Candle, but we really can’t use them in craft group as they would take forever to harden. (We’re keeping the smaller ones, but the larger ones are really large, as you can see.) If you live near me – the...
I’m all about the multi-tasking, but before you decide to make a product that’s both a floor wax and dessert topping, decide if you might be better off having separate products for each task. (And not just because of the ewwwww factor!) When I first started making products, I went on a mighty quest to...
I’m still on a quest to figure out the answer to this question…so let’s review information I’ve found so far. What is a humectant? “Humectancy or hygroscopy is the tendency of a substance to attract water from the surroundings by absorption and adsorption at defined conditions (temperature, humidity).” (page 26, this review). Is glycerin a...
What are electrolytes? (And are they really what plants crave?) “An electrolyte is any substance containing free ions that make the substance electrically conductive. The most typical electrolyte is an ionic solution, but molten electrolytes and solid electrolytes are also possible. Commonly, electrolytes are solutions of acids, bases or salts.” (From Wikipedia). In other words, when you...