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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…