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Question from Patreon: How to include many extracts in a product? How to include powdered extracts? How to deal with the colour?

June 25, 2017 by SwiftCraftyMonkey

On my Patreon feed, Laura asked: Question about botanical extracts: I want to avoid using liquid extracts because mane contain Phenoxyethanol and my clients DO NOT want it. Nor do they want Sodium Benzoate. There are not many available preserved with Leucidal Liquid. I do use some powdered extracts, but they tend to not dissolve, settle…

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