Demythifying the myths: You don’t need to pH test and adjust your formula after the addition of every ingredient!

It feels like there’s a lot of misinformation being spread about how to test and adjust pH when making a formula – emulsion, cleansers, body washes, shampoos, conditioners, and so on – and I thought I’d share some good information with you. Related section: pH & information about pH meters, always found under the “resources”...

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Tips & techniques: Testing and adjusting the pH of a emulsion with a pH meter

Welcome to this detailed page on how to test emulsions – like lotions and conditioners – with a pH meter! If you’d like to read a longer post with even more information, you can find it here – Acids, bases, and pH – oh my! Part four: Testing our products with pH meters!  If you’d like...

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Questions from the recent Zoom workshop on shampoo bars: pH, pH testing & pH meters

Thanks for joining me today. In this post, we’ll be taking a look at the questions you had about the pH of the shampoo bars we made in the Zoom workshop on June 14th, 2020. I’ve been going through the chat you were having – which was awesome! – and trying to answer the questions...

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Join me this Sunday for a Zoom meeting on pH & pH meters (Download formula & handout here!)

pH & pH meters! Join me as we take a look at pH and our products. We’ll calibrate our meters, then use them to test a few different products. I’ll show you how to prepare your your product for testing, create pH adjusting fluids, measure the pH of your product, and adjust the pH.  Topic: pH...

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How the ingredients determine the pH of a shampoo bar, and testing Lush’s Jumping Juniper bar

When we were at Windy Point Soap Making Supplies two weeks ago, we had great fun testing the pH of various Lush products, including three shampoo bars – Jumping Juniper, Montalbano, and Trichomania – as well as two “self-preserving” shower gels, Honey I Washed the Kids and The Olive Branch. Let’s take a look at...

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