Equipment

Overhead mixers & magnetic stirrers – our live Zoom meeting Sunday, May 17th at 11 am (PDT)

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Join me on Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 11 am PDT (Vancouver, Canada time) for our meeting about overhead mixers and magnetic stirrers! We’ll be creating a body wash using xanthan gum and a face serum using Sepinov EMT 10 as I demonstrate how to use these devices. As a note, as of Saturday, I...

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Live Zoom call Sunday, May 17, 2020, at 11 am PDT – Mixers!

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Mixers! Join me on a short tour of my workshop to take a look at how to use a magnetic stirrer and overhead mixer. We’ll wet, disperse, and hydrate some natural gums, starches, and gels, then use them in a product or two. If my ingredients arrive in time, I’m thinking I can show you...

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Acids, bases, and pH – oh my! Part 10: A short video about altering the pH of our products

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We had great fun in the workshop making a bunch of little videos about pH, pH indicators, adjusting, testing, and everything else to do with this topic. Here’s a little 2 minute video we made showing how phenolphthalein behaves when we add an acid and reduce the pH. We took a look at pH indicators...

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Acids, bases, and pH – oh my! Part 9: Reducing or increasing the pH of our products

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I went into quite a bit of detail in this post – Acids, bases, and pH – oh my! Part four: Testing our products with pH meters – but thought I’d write up a quick reference post on how to adjust the pH of our products. If you want to reduce the pH or make...

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Acids, bases, and pH – oh my! Part 8 : How does a pH meter work?

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If you want to catch up on this series, please check out the pH & pH meters section of the blog by clicking the link.  I thought I’d share a little more of the science of our pH meters with you as I found it really interesting! You don’t need to know this to test...

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