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In this post, Iron Chemist: Sodium lactate, Raffella asks: I bought sodium lactate in powder form. When you say to use 2% in your recipes, can I just weigh out the powder or are you talking about liquid sodium lactate? If so, how do I reconstitute the powder? In my recipes, I’m generally talking about the liquid, which...
I’m so far behind on comments – I think I might be in mid-April at this point – and I’m trying my best to answer the best I can. I’ll be posting quite a few on the blog over the next little while as I answer them in the order in which they were written,...
So what did I make yesterday? Cold process soap!!!!! I know, right? It was so much fun!!! Michele from Windy Point Soap taught me how to make two batches of soap yesterday. Both were coconut, palm, shea, and olive oils. The pink was fuchsia mica with strawberry jam fragrance oil; the other, neon orange with blood...
Happy Victoria Day! We’re still on the road after my incredibly exciting weekend teaching at Windy Point Soap in Calgary, and it’s hard to update the blog as the Blogger app crashes constantly, but I really wanted to share some of my excitement over the project Michele taught me today! It’s not ready yet, but...