It seems like life is so busy lately with all the preparing I'm doing for the Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetics Guild's conference in May in Las Vegas where I'm presenting a workshop entitled Facial Moisturizers 101, and with writing my new e-book on using cosmeceuticals in facial products and so many other cool and awesome things as well as a bout of the stomach flu that left me low for a lot longer than I expected. I'm afraid I haven't had time to work on the blog, and I apologize for not writing more often. I am trying to get to your comments, but there's just so little time to do anything right now, so I'll ask for further patience from you. (I'm up to March 20th for shorter answers, and I'm working on a few that will become posts here shortly.)  As a note, if the answer to your comment or e-mail is found in the FAQ or in the newbie section or found easily through a quick search, I won't be answering them. I'm afraid I don't have time to post lengthy answers or even links to the same ten questions I get every single day about things like where to get supplies, where I keep basic recipes for beginners, or information on ingredients I've written about at great length. I encourage you to take this tour of the blog to see where I keep information or how I categorize it as I know I have a lot of posts and some of them are very long! 
I know a lot of links to outside sources like studies or data sheets aren't working at the moment thanks to Dropbox's decision to stop...