Updates on upcoming Zoom calls, cancelling this weekend’s workshop, and thoughts about text chat?

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Hi everyone! I’m sorry to say the Zoom workshop I had planned for Sunday, June 7th on solubility is being pushed back to June 21st at 11 am as I’m not feeling that great. I’ve been fighting with my never-ending muscle spasm headache, which is slowly going away thanks to the massive injections of Botox...

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Welcome to June 2020!

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Welcome to June! I hope you and everyone you love is hale and healthy and doing well! We’re entering our fourth month of the pandemic, and I’m finding it’s getting harder to remain indoors when there’s sun and fun to be had. (Yeah, I’m normally a winter girl who hides from the sun, but I … Read more

#alltheingredients: Plantapon SF – surfactant blend

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I’ve been playing a lot with Plantapon® TF, a non-ionic surfactant blend, using it in all kinds of cleansers, so let’s take a look at a relative of this surfactant blend – Plantapon® SF (INCI: Sodium cocoamphoacetate, glycerin, lauryl glucoside, sodium cocoyl glutamate, sodium lauryl glucose carboxylate), a naturally compliant, COSMOS approved surfactant blend that...

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Hey $10 subscribers! The May 2020 e-zine is out – Surfactants: Body washes & shower gels!

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Every month, I start off on the first choosing the e-zine. Sometimes, I start it completely from scratch; other times, I find something I started writing in a previous month and add to it. This month, I chose one of my favourite topics – making body washes/shower gels! – and started writing. I scoured through...

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Creating a natural hair oil with substitutions – modifying a formula from IPCS

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Let’s go back to the original post for a moment to see what we’re making! The basic formula for this natural hair oil from Institute of Personal Care Science is is 9.5% Cetiol CC, 0.5% essential oil blend, 0.5% Argan oil, 0.2% Dermofeel Toco 70, and up to 100% Cetiol Ultimate or Vegelight 1214 LC. As...

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