(Long) Weekend Wonderings: How to heat and hold on a stove, substituting surfactants. and where contaminants in our products arise?

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HOW TO HEAT AND HOLD ON A STOVE?In this post, Love writes: I know that heating and holding is very important but how can I control that the heat won’t go above 70˚C? On my stove, which is a generic stove, there are 3 different settings (1, 2 and 3). The problem however is that there’s no...

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Weekend Wonderings: Compensating for evaporation, adding water soluble ingredients to a serum, and citronellyl methylcrotonate.

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WHAT HAPPENS TO THE OTHER INGREDIENTS WHEN THEY EVAPORATE DURING HEAT AND HOLD? In this Weekend Wonderings comment post, Anitra asks: This one’s related to our heated water phases; When compensating for evaporation, do we need to compensate for any of the goodies (panthenol, glycerine, aloe, etc.) added to the heated water phase as well?...

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What do you think of this visual tutorial?

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I found this thing called SnapGuide tonight, so I created a guide to making an emulsified sugar scrub. I’ll be posting more on my channel – which is under my name, Susan Barclay Nichols, not Swiftcraftymonkey – when I have time! I only have the one guide so far, but I would love to hear...

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Sorry for the silence…

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It has been one of those weeks! (Although I’m starting to think it might be one of those lifetimes…) I tripped on the stairs of my best friend’s house, and my herniated disk has been causing me great pain all week. I guess I’m not a Viking (yet). I’m one of those porcelain Victorian dolls...

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