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Zoom workshop: pH meters & measuring – meeting links, password, and handouts. For Formulation and Innovation subscribers! Updated April 17 with formulas

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By popular demand, we’ll be taking a look at pH, including how to measure with strips or meters, how to adjust the pH of a few different products, and how to get your meter ready for use by calibrating it. We’ll be making a foaming facial cleanser that’ll need the pH tested and adjusted, and…what...

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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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Zoom workshop: Shampoo bars on March 15, 2026! (For Formulation & Innovation subscribers!) You must RSVP by email!

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Collage poster for the Zoom workshop on shampoo bars for March 15, 2026,

It’s time again for a Zoom workshop and in March we’re making the most awesome SHAMPOO BARS you’ve ever made, hard yet pliable, usable until the last sliver, and filled with all kinds of hair-loving goodies and conditioners! Join us on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at noon PST (Vancouver daylight savings time) for a two...

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Zoom workshop: Modified formulas from the workshop – Sepigel 305!

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A plastic container sits on a counter with a very white, thicker looking emulsion inside. This is a lotion made with Sepigel 305.

In this post, we’re looking at the formula for a cream or body butter viscosity with Sepigel 305 or Sepiplus 400 that we modified in our Zoom workshop on cold process emulsifiers that we held on Sunday, February 8, 2026. I can’t wait to do some more! (Make your suggestions for topics in this post!) The...

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