Techniques

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Getting ready to sell or gift products by year end? A few ideas and suppliers! (Updated for 2023)

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It might surprise you, but the August is the busiest time of the year for our suppliers as everyone stocks up for markets or to make soap that has to cure for weeks before giving or selling it at Christmas. If you’re thinking about making products for upcoming holidays, you might want to consider making...

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Tips & techniques: You don’t need to test and alter the pH of an emulsion with a few exceptions…

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Welcome back to another instalment of tips & techniques! I thought I should create a separate and updated post on this topic because I see people going through all the work to test and alter pH for emulsions that are just fine on their own. As you’ll see, most emulsifiers are designed to create formulas...

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Tips & techniques: Don’t wash your packaging before use!

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A quick tip for you: You don’t need to clean your packaging before you use it. Putting your bottles and jars into a dishwasher before you use them for products can introduce contamination. Using dishwashing soap and a bottle cleaner can leave residue. There may be water in places you don’t expect and that can...

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Demythifying the myths: A super simple method to melt BTMS in a double boiler!

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There’s this weird idea out there in the DIY world that we can’t easily melt ingredients that contain behentrimonium methosulfate (BTMS), found in Incroquat BTMS-50, Incroquat BTMS-25, Rita BTMS-225, and many BTMS emulsifiers, in a double boiler. It seems that no matter how times I demonstrate it in a class or Zoom meeting or post,...

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Let’s talk about making substitutions for preservatives in my formulas! (Very long post!)

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This is a long post that didn’t have a logical place to make cuts, so rather than spend time re-writing it, here’s a few days of posts in one!  For a while now, I’ve shared charts with you so you can make substitutions for the preservatives that you have in your workshop if you can’t...

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