Creating products: Assembling your ingredients – preparing your space (updated)

I’m not an organized woman, but I think I’m doing okay in the workshop. I have all my ingredients organized into different bins. If you look at at this picture, on the bottom row (from left to right) I have boxes of surfactants, oils, extracts and hydrosols, other ingredients, and powdered ingredients that aren’t salts...

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Creating products: Assembling your ingredients – obtaining supplies (updated)

The second step in creating products is to assemble and weigh your ingredients into the proper containers. Let’s take a look at obtaining our ingredients in this post. Where can you buy ingredients? At a bath & body product retailer, of course! I’m fortunate in that I have three retailers within driving distance – Suds &...

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Creating products: Choosing your recipe (updated)

Choosing which recipe to make can often be the hardest part of creating products. I can spend hours in the workshop looking at my ingredients, thinking about what I could make with those lovely new esters or surfactants, doing an inventory of what I need to make for my personal needs or for gift giving,...

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Creating products – an overview

I’ve had a few days to lie in bed and think about what I could be doing if I wasn’t ill, and I got to thinking about lotions. I think I can break the lotion making process into six stages – choosing the recipe, assembling and weighing the ingredients, heating and holding the ingredients, combining the...

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What can you share about lotion making? What do you want to know?

As I’ve been writing this series on lotion making, I’ve realized there are so many little things I do to make lotions, both in formulating and the process itself, that I wasn’t taught by someone else but learned along the way. And we all have those little things that we’ve figured out ourselves based on...

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