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I’m doing my final exam for math tonight, so this morning is dedicated to doing last minute revisions to those concepts that have refused to take up residence in my head. I started the class in January, and I can’t remember anything past last week. What’s up with that? I’m stuck on logarithms and exponents...
I love this creamy exfoliating cleanser! I can use it for my oily skin maybe once a month and my best friend with normal skin can use it once a week, but someone with dry skin could use it every day, although I’d make a version without the jojoba beads because you don’t want to...
I’m afraid that comments on all posts will have to undergo moderation until the spammer who is going through every post on my blog is finished. I promise the only comments to be deleted will be those spam comments. Sorry about this, but it has to be done until the spammer is finished bothering us...
The new e-book will be a formulating lotions book, how to do it from scratch, based on the formulating series from earlier this year. It is intended to be a lotion making 201 type book intended for those of us who want to take our lotion making beyond finding a recipe and have a few...
I’m working on the new e-book on formulating, and it’s been taking up all my time this weekend! Any suggestions or comments for me?...