Writing well! It’s and its!

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Learning to write well is one of the most important skills for marketing your business, creating awesome blurbs or descriptions for marketing materials and websites, generating amazing social media posts, and communicating with your clients about what you have to offer. One of the easiest ways to elevate your writing is to master little things,...

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Specific gravity: How you can use it to figure out how much you’re spending on ingredients! (Updated with downloadable Excel spread sheet!)

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I thought I’d share a little more on the idea of specific gravity and how we can use it for our products. I shared a series on specific gravity in January 2022, so if you’d like more information, definitely check out these posts… Let’s talk about specific gravity (relative density or specific density) – part...

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Let’s take a shower with my favourite products (link-o-rama!)

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It’s Wednesday — that means it’s shower time! You can’t join me as I sing very very loudly*, make quite a mess with all that foam and lather, and probably have it far too cold for most people’s taste, but I can share some of my routine and all the products I make for such...

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#alltheingredients: Decyl glucoside (and) sodium lauroyl lactylate (aka polyglucose/lactylate blend)

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I have a post on the site about this ingredient as polyglucose/lactylate blend, but I wanted to update it with all the new information I’ve learned in the last 12 years and with this awesome chart.  The blend of decyl glucoside and sodium lauroyl lactylate can be found under a few different names – Ritafactant 138...

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Welcome to March 2022!

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Welcome to March, the month of spring and flowers and showers and maybe some cherry blossoms? February 28 is the official anniversary of this blog as Point of Interest, which started its life in 2008 as a way to share handouts and tutorials with the youth in our Rated T for Teen crafting program (on … Read more