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I’m always happy to get e-mails and comments looking for why a product didn’t work, but I’d like to make a suggestion if you’re making a product for the first time…make a basic version of it. I’m receiving e-mails from people who have shampoos – especially shampoos – that don’t work, and it seems like...
I touched on this idea a little in this post – how to research ingredients – but I thought I’d add a little more on finding data bulletins or data sheets. Let’s say you find an ingredient that looks interesting – let’s say Amphosol CG – but you want to know more about it. You...
I’ve been surfing through a few forums today and I noticed three things… First: Everyone seems to call me Swifty! I’m SWIFT (or swift) not Swifty. There is someone else named Swifty and I’ve already changed my name once to avoid confusion. (If you see someone named Celeritas, that might be well be me –...
I’m really excited to see all the tutorials popping up around the ‘net for bath and body products – one day we’ll all be making our own stuff and the giant corporations will fall (insert evil genius laugh here) and we’ll all have lovely skin and shiny hair and overly white teeth that blind anyone...
p suggested…You know how you posted on how you duplicate a product? I would absolutely love an analogous post on how you research ingredients and formulations. You shed so much light on topics that other sites discuss only casually. Do you do your research mostly through books? Or is the web actually a really good...