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I’ve been getting lots of e-mail from people about calculating recipes in grams or ounces or percentages or volume, so I thought I’d address a few of these questions starting with this one – how big a batch should you make the first time you make something? When I make a product for the first...
Since no one seems to have any ingredients that bewilder them this week, we won’t be enjoying a why the heck did I buy this and what can I do with it Wednesday post. I had thought to write something, but I couldn’t think of an ingredient you might have but not know what to...
WHY IS MEADOWFOAM SEED OIL SO STABLE AND WHY DOES IT HELP OTHERS BECOME MORE STABLE?The picture to your left is of the conjugated linoleic acid molecule. You can see there’s a difference between the eicosenoic acid bonds and the conjugated linoleic acid bonds. So what does this mean? From this post on conjugated linoleic...
Happy Movember, everyone! What’s Movember? “Movember encourages men to join the movement by growing a moustache for the 30-days of November. After REGISTERING on Movember.com, these generous Mo Bros start the month clean-shaven, then grow and groom their Mo (slang for moustache), asking friends and family to donate to their efforts. With their new moustaches,...
I’ve finally had a chance to play with meadowfoam seed oil and I’m really enjoying it, so let’s take a look at this exciting oil before we do some formulating with it. Meadowfoam flowers are found on Vancouver Island in Canada and northern California and southern Oregon, which makes it a local product for me!...