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Original post from July 13, 2009, modified today… Filling containers can be such a huge pain in the bum! Here are a few things I thought I’d share… Since I’m a surfactant junkie, I make a lot of bubble baths, body washes, and shampoos that need bottling. I find the easiest way is to get...
We’ve chosen a good recipe, we’ve assembled our ingredients, we’ve heated and held, and we’ve mixed! It’s time to add the cool down ingredients. What do we put into our cool down phase? (Click here for the original post.) We put in the ingredients that might be sensitive to heat, such as our silicones (cyclomethicone...
There’s been a lot of interest about mixing our products, and a lot of questions have arisen, so let’s take a look at a few of the comments from the post on this topic! Anonymous asked this question: Hi Susan thank you for the wonderful information so generously given here. After reading you post on blending...
Quite a few people have written to me to ask about double boilers. The reason for using one? It’s easier to control the temperature when we have our jug immersed in water as opposed to having all the ingredients in a pot on top of an element. There won’t be any sharp changes in temperature...
Cordy asked in this post on heating and holding: When heating and holding, do you take the temperature of each phase at intervals, or do you leave a thermometer in each container, or some other option? And Leman wrote in that same post: I always wonder whether I should be taking the temperature by not touching...