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Thank you so much for all your kind words and good wishes for my family this week. I have the loveliest readers, and your good thoughts and prayers for us have really helped me so much in what I think may be the worst month of my life. My mom is out of the hospital,...
I’m sorry I haven’t been responding to your posts and messages. My mom went into hospital earlier this week, and I’ve been spending all my time there as she was stuck in the ER in a chair, and only received a bed yesterday around dinner time. Now that she’s in a less crowded and more...
If you’re following along with our upcoming Newbie Tuesday series for making facial products, here’s your equipment list. (If you take $20 and go down to the dollar store, you’ll get just about everything you need there!) Digital scale: You’ll want something that can weigh 1 gram (meaning there’s no decimal on the scale). You...
Duplicating Tata Harper’s Concentrated Brightening Serum: Evaluating the base recipe $1+ patrons Aug 10, 2016 at 12:31pm The other day we took a look at the ingredient list, then we created a prototype recipe , so all that’s left to do is look at how the first try worked out! TATA HARPER BRIGHTENING SERUM DUPLICATION...
In this post, Emulsifiers: Lotionpro 165 in a lotion, Alana asks: Can LotionPro emulsify 38% shea butter and 3% stearic acid along with 3% menthol crystals? What is the max capacity of this emulsifier to emulsify oils? As Lotionpro 165 (aka Simulsol 165) is an oil-in-water emulsifier, we know the oil phase has to be...