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Zoom workshop on Sunday, May 17, 2026 at noon PDT: Hydrolyzed proteins, amino acids, and peptides in facial products with special guest, Natalie Skiller of This Formulating Life! Updated with handout and formulas!

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Woo hoo! We have another Zoom workshop planned for Sunday, May 17, 2026 at noon PDT (Vancouver, Canada time): Hydrolyzed proteins, amino acids, and peptides in facial products with special guest, Natalie Skiller of This Formulating Life. She’ll be sharing a formula for a facial product with peptides, while I’m doing a quick foaming facial...

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Zoom workshop on pH meters: Let’s answer some questions from the Zoom workshop!

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Woo hoo! That was another fun Zoom workshop last Sunday on pH – testing and adjusting pH in a foaming facial cleanser formula along with learning how to calibrate our meters and test with pH strips. Let’s go through the questions you had in the chat! Check out part one of this two part series...

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Zoom workshop on pH meters: Links to the recording, handout, and modified formula for the gentle vanilla bean & chamomile foaming facial cleanser as well as the exfoliating version (part one)

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Woo hoo! That was another fun Zoom workshop yesterday on pH – testing and adjusting pH in a foaming facial cleanser formula along with learning how to calibrate our meters and test with pH strips. Let’s look at the formula we made, how we adjusted and tested the pH, then what we did when we...

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Shampoo bars: Video link and questions from the Zoom workshop in March 2026! (Formulation & Innovation subscribers) – part two

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A photo of three shampoo bars on the metal top of a digital scale. From right to left, the largest one is pink; the middle one is pink and smaller because it's been used; the final one is white and it's very small because it's been used a lot.

Thanks for joining me for part two of this short series of posts post-Zoom workshop on shampoo bars! I’m going through the chat from the workshop to answer questions we discussed in the workshop and questions I didn’t get to as there was so much going on, and I want to make sure I addressed...

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Zoom workshop on shampoo bars! Link to the replay video! Questions about substituting surfactants, my equipment, using starches, and loads of links to great information! (Formulation and Innovation subscribers)

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Woo hoo! That Zoom workshop was fun, eh? I’ve been going through the chat and I’ll be answering some of those questions here. I did answer a lot in the workshop, but let’s go through and make sure they’re answered properly with links and such. This post consists mostly of short answers to the questions...

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