Q&A: Are there oils we shouldn’t freeze? Oils and titer points, surfactants and cloud points

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Quite a few times, Marta has asked this question, and I’ve been remiss in answering it. She posed it again in the Discussion: How do you decide what to make? What about mulitifunctional products? How do you store and inventory your stuff? and shared what she heard from Lotioncrafter. I emailed Lotioncrafter to ask why the...

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Thought for the day: How not to store dangerous chemicals in your workshop!

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Thought for the day: It’s not a good idea to store your sodium hydroxide (lye) or potassium hydroxide with your humectants, which draw water from the atmosphere. Doing inventory in my workshop today, we found a plastic box with a ton of humectants like propanediol 1,3, glycerin, sodium PCA, sodium lactate, urea, and Hydrovance all...

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Why did I buy that and what can I do with it? + #alltheingredients! Hoarders’ edition

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I’m a hoarder. There, I admitted it. That’s the first step, right? Can I go now? I have stuff in the double boiler I really should…oh, there’s more?  Sigh…all right, then.  Hi everyone, I’m Susan. I’m an aspirational hoarder of supplies. I buy ingredients, fabrics, and craft supplies in the hopes of having the time...

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Formulating Fundamentals Friday: Substituting one emollient for another in a lotion! 

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Welcome to this new series I’m calling Formulating Fundamentals Friday where I’ll be sharing all kinds of things I hope you’ll find useful in learning how to formulate your own products. If this is all completely new to you, check out the Beginners! Start here! section of the blog.  In my lotion formulas, you can...

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Welcome to January 2019!

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Wow, how did it get to be 2019 already? I remember as a kid thinking that the year 2000 was so far away, but here we are, 19% through the century! January’s all about making resolutions, doing something different, re-inventing ourselves to be new people. It’s about all the fast food places sending you endless...

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