Fit & Finish

Tips & techniques: A few notes on the importance of process, following instructions, and measuring temperatures! (Updated June 2022)

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I’ve written a lengthier post that you can find here – The formula is only the start: The process is everything! – that I’d like to draw your attention to in this post. I can’t stress this enough – if you’re following my formula, you must follow my process and instructions for making it. Failure to...

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Tips & techniques: Quick look at active surfactant matter (ASM)!

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What’s active surfactant matter (ASM)? This is the percentage of the surfactant as presented, the actual foamy, bubbly, lathery™ surfactant in a liquid or solid ingredient. Liquid products can range from 10% active to 60% active, but most fall in the 25% to 40% range. The rest of the ingredients will consist of water and...

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Packaging! Everything you wanted to know about measuring caps for bottles and jars!

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In the recent Zoom workshop about mixers, Liz mentioned in the chat, I would love a post on how to decipher the bottle/jar lid size code, and how to figure out what lids to buy for my vintage glass bottles/jars. Great idea! Thank you for the suggestion! As a note, I have a section in...

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Discussion: What tools or small pieces of equipment rock your world? 

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I admit that I’m a bit of a tool freak in the workshop. (Wow, that sounded way less suggestive in my head…) I love finding something that’ll make my life slightly easier when it comes to measuring, mixing, creating, testing, packaging, or anything else! One of my new favourite things is this giant fork from...

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Math and active surfactant matter calculators

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It seems that everyone wants to calculate the active surfactant matter in their surfactants before adding them to products. I’ve been loathe to suggest any calculators as I think we need to practice math to get better at it, and these calculations are much easier than you think. Example: If we have a surfactant than...

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