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Welcome to February! I’m taking a bit of a break from the blog for the first week or so of this month. My batteries are wearing down, and I really need to take some time to recharge them. Thanks to the pandemic, we haven’t been able to meet indoors or out with anyone socially since … Read more
Woo! That was a great Zoom workshop we had on Sunday, January 17, 2021, on shear mixers, like immersion blenders and homogenizers, so I thought it was time to introduce you to amazing homogenizer, which we played with a bit in that workshop and will play with again in the near future in another Zoom...
A huge thank you to Tiffany, Chris, Monica, and MsBg for your feedback and photos and inspiring conversations as you work through this series! The header photo for this post of last week’s Formulating Friday formula by Tiffany! She’s colouring the lotions so she knows which is which! As I mentioned in the Newbie Tuesday...
In the monthly Q&A post, Liza asked, Has anyone used EZ Colours? If so, what can you do with it, other than add it to Versagel? (Link to Windy Point Soap Making Supplies where I, Swift, bought mine.) As a note, I know they’re called EZ Color without the “u” in colour, but my computer...
Yay, it’s here, the new e-book for January 2021 – Oh the weather outside is frightful! Winter hair & skin products! We started revising one of my first and favourite e-books I shared way back in January 2017 to include links to the blog and such, and I decided to more than double the size...