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I’ve been surfing through a few forums today and I noticed three things… First: Everyone seems to call me Swifty! I’m SWIFT (or swift) not Swifty. There is someone else named Swifty and I’ve already changed my name once to avoid confusion. (If you see someone named Celeritas, that might be well be me –...
I’m really excited to see all the tutorials popping up around the ‘net for bath and body products – one day we’ll all be making our own stuff and the giant corporations will fall (insert evil genius laugh here) and we’ll all have lovely skin and shiny hair and overly white teeth that blind anyone...
p suggested…You know how you posted on how you duplicate a product? I would absolutely love an analogous post on how you research ingredients and formulations. You shed so much light on topics that other sites discuss only casually. Do you do your research mostly through books? Or is the web actually a really good...
I am asked all the time about how much emulsifier to use. If you are using Polawax, the general rule of thumb is to use 25% of the oil phase. So if you have 20% oil, you’d use 5% Polawax. If you have 30% oil, you’d use 7.5% Polawax. And so on. So why am...
I’ve received quite a few queries asking why can’t we use CP soap as a shampoo. I know the perception out there can be CP soap = natural, therefore good and surfactants = processed, therefore bad, and I know I did a post on carboxylates recently, but there are good reasons we don’t use even...