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In our Zoom workshop last Sunday, we made the formula you can see in this week’s Newbie Tuesday post for hand & body lotion with Polawax, e-wax NF, Phytomulse, or Natragem EW. This will product a lotion with a pH between 5 to 6.5-ish, which is where we want it to be for our skin….