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As you know, I’ve been asking for more participation and engagement, and one of my goals for 2018 is to create a space where we can connect and share. So to foster that sense of community, I thought I could start some of these discussions or open thread where we could share our thoughts, techniques, fails,...
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In the December duplicating post, Joyce asked: My question concerns formulating, in reading your blog you state when formulating a recipe, x%=xgrams. i have recently seen recipes with odd %’s, for ex. 0.80%. How do you measure .80 grams? Do we drop the 0 & make it .8grams, do we round up to 1 gram,...
In this post on Ritathix DOE, Kate noted: PEG compounds are excluded from ECOcert so I’m not sure how this could be claimed as natural. (Click on the label to embiggen if you want to read the entire list properly.) I’ve said this before…I don’t know what natural means any more. There isn’t a definition...
I made myself a really basic toner last week to moisturize and (I hope) de-redden my skin. I’m quite happy with it, but I think I need to dilute it! So this got me thinking about those sites that claim “no fillers”, with water being one of those fillers. Water isn’t some useless ingredient we...