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Substitutions: Playing around with a basic recipe

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As I mentioned in yesterday’s post on substitutions, I simply can’t make a substitutions list because substituting one ingredient for another is a matter of personal preference and context. There are some ingredients you can’t leave out – for instance, you must have an emulsifier in a lotion and no water containing product should ever...

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How can you tell it’s a good recipe? Do the math! (updated)

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Jenna wrote as a comment in this post on recipes: I have created this recipe and have made it before. There were moments that it worked and moments that it didn’t. So after finding your blog a short time ago, I finally have the courage to ask about my recipe.  water 300g  ewax 25g shea butter...

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Question: When making stuff, how do you know what to do? (Part 2 of 2).

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Let’s continue to take a look at how we might modify a template recipe to come up with what we really really want! (Click here for yesterday’s post!) What is my goal with this product? I want to make a nice glidy body butter for the upcoming dry winter months in the Fraser Valley. I want...

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Creating products: Packaging – too many choices! (updated)

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Packaging our products is more than just putting them in a pretty bottle! We have a few things to consider, such as what we’re packaging in the bottle and what kind of plastic we need for specific products. Here are two posts from the past to give you some things to think about when it...

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Creating products: Cool down phase (updated)

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We’ve chosen a good recipe, we’ve assembled our ingredients, we’ve heated and held, and we’ve mixed! It’s time to add the cool down ingredients. What do we put into our cool down phase? (Click here for the original post.) We put in the ingredients that might be sensitive to heat, such as our silicones (cyclomethicone...

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