For the love of all that is good and holy, please don’t make this: Pumpkin spice body butter!

A friend alerted me to this absolutely atrocious recipe the other day, and I couldn’t not share it with you! This is an excellent example of a really poorly created recipe – or as I like to call it a “terrible recipe” – from a DIY page that was shared by a supplier – argh,...

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Let’s analyze a “terrible recipe” to learn more about formulating: Part four, looking at a final potential formula, analyzing it a little more with information on how to spot terrible recipes and where to find trusted resources

Welcome back to this series in which we’re analyzing what I’m calling a “terrible recipe” for a lotion to learn more about formulating lotions from scratch. In part one, we took a look at the original recipe in volume and by weight, then we considered a few things, like temperatures, what went into which phase,...

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Let’s analyze a “terrible recipe” to learn more about formulating: Part three, reviewing the weighed version of the recipe, calculating the formula by percentage

Welcome back to this series in which we’re analyzing what I’m calling a “terrible recipe” for a lotion to learn more about formulating lotions from scratch. In part one, we took a look at the original recipe in volume and by weight, then we considered a few things, like temperatures, what went into which phase,...

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Let’s analyze a “terrible recipe” to learn more about formulating: Part two, converting the recipe from kitchen to metric volume measurements and reviewing the recipe again

Welcome back to this series in which we’re analyzing what I’m calling a “terrible recipe” for a lotion to learn more about formulating lotions from scratch. In yesterday’s post, we took a look at the original recipe in volume and by weight, then we considered a few things, like temperatures, what went into which phase,...

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Let’s analyze a “terrible recipe” to learn more about formulating: Part one, reviewing the terrible recipe and instructions

As we get into the busiest time of the year for making products, and as we seem to have a lot of beginners joining us – Hello! Welcome! Warning, this is very addictive stuff! – I thought we could take a few posts to analyze a recipe I found in the wild we can use...

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