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So, I’m a bit of an idiot. I was ordering a few things from New Directions Aromatics, and didn’t want to incur their “small order” fee ($100 is not small!) so I threw some lime butter into my basket. And when it came, it turns out I bought a kilogram of it! Thank goodness it...
As I mentioned yesterday, I presented at Voyageur Soap & Candle’s grand opening at their new store in Surrey! So many of you came down to say “hi”, and I can finally put some faces to the names I see around here! Thank you so much for joining me yesterday to talk about formulating while...
I can’t believe I didn’t share this here! ARGH! It’s been a weird week! Sorry! Here’s my tentative schedule for the grand opening of Voyageur Soap & Candle’s new store this Saturday, September 22nd on the Surrey/Langley border (British Columbia). I’ll be demonstrating how to make gorgeous whipped butters at 10:30, and floofy exfoliating foaming...
I realized I was burning through a lot of these terms over the last two weeks, so I wanted to stop and take a look at what all this stuff we’ve been talking about means in terms of our products and our experiences as I think the best way to learn is to read something,...
I realized there were a few more terms I had to share before we get into the natural gum thickeners. Plus, I needed to give you the date of the quiz. Nah, just kidding…or am I? 🙂 On September 7th, we started this series off by looking at why xanthan gum might pill or ball...