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As it’s Father’s Day in North America, and you all told me you’d be busy today, there is no Zoom meeting today. We’ll be back next week with a workshop in conditioners! I’ll be on Discord at 5 pm PDT for a general chat on any topic or to answer your questions on my new...
In this month’s Q&A, Dalel Djegham asked, I’m looking for Incroquat CR to make a solid conditionner. I can’t find it easily. Here what I found: Purple Citrus, Saffire Blue, The Herbarie, CoChem (sample), Croda (sample), somewhere I found Quatrex CRC (by Chemron Corp). (Is it even the same thing?) So my questions are: where do I...
One of the most awesome bits of our weekly Zoom meetings is hearing all the questions you have and seeing you sharing your thoughts, suggestions, and answers with each other in the chat! I’m doing my best to answer them, but some things just need a little more time to swirl around in my head...
In the April Q&A, Cristina asked: Hi Susan! How do I adjust a formula that calls for a powdered extract but I have the liquid version and viceversa? For example, if the formula says 1% powdered X extract, but I have it in liquid, do I still use 1% of the liquid version? Would I...
In the January Q&A, Emma asked: I have a question about some products I recently received as a gift from my brother in Berlin. There is a really nice store there called Urban Cosmetics and they have a lot of natural products, hydrosols, etc. Reading the ingredients I notice they put silver in their serum and...