Wow, it\'s been busy over on the new blog!On Saturday, I shared my new e-book, Shampoo Bars You Will Love: Creating pH Balanced Bars, as well as a shorter e-book with just the formulas, my first single formula issue, One shampoo bar, four...

What\'re you doing over here when we\'ve been having great fun making pH balanced shampoo bars over on the new blog" I see you accessing the old formulas, which is great, but why not stop by to see some of the new ones I\'ve created"For...

Join us over on the new blog this week as I share a duplication of the Lush Jumping Juniper shampoo bar, a post all about sodium coco sulfate (SCS), and shampoo bars using other surfactants that will be more pH balanced.We\'re still in the process...

The end of the month is always super busy around the blog as I get the e-zine ready and make sure I\'ve answered all the questions posed to me by subscribers.For subscribers, I\'ve spent the last week duplicating L\'Occitane Immortelle Divine...

I\'m so excited to share this month\'s e-zine that every $10 subscriber to the blog gets this month! Beyond Emulsifying Wax, part two: Modifications and Substitutions. It\'s not only the second part of last month\'s mammoth tome, the 70 page...

I\'m still writing up a storm over on the new blog, sharing more than 10,000 words a week or the equivalent of 50 pages of a novel, because I\'m having such fun!Yeah, I know I said I wasn\'t doing the digests any more, but Raymond\'s been...

We\'re having tons of fun working with cucumber hydrosol, liquid extract, powdered extract, and seed oil! So far we\'ve made...An anhydrous body butter using cucumber seed oil(Member exclusive) Cucumber hydrosol micellar water! A 99% natural...

This week on the blog we saw people enjoying the new e-Zine "Beyond Emulsifying Wax", many users switched over to direct subscriptions on the blog rather than the somewhat buggy Patreon method, an exclusive discount from Lotioncrafter, and some...

Just a reminder that I\'m not updating posts or responding to this blog any more. You can find most of the posts from here over on the new blog and we should have the rest over there shortly.I\'m also not updating any of the lists of links for...

I think last week was the last digest of posts as it can take upwards of two hours to gather all the information necessary to create one, and given how much time over the last two months I\'ve lost for things like preparing for two conferences...

Wow, so much has happened over the last week! As I mentioned in last week\'s digest, I\'ve had to cancel my attendance at the Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetic Guild\'s conference in Atlanta due to the excruciating muscle spasms I\'ve been having...

I\'ve been having such great fun sharing micellar water formulas with you, as you can see from the list of posts for the last week! I\'ve had to stop so you can try a few and share your thoughts with me. I have plans for a biphasic make-up...

We\'ve been whipping up a storm of exfoliating foaming bath butters and micellar waters over on the new blog, so I hope you\'ll join me on the new blog as we have fun formulating all manner of lathery, bubbly things!We?re continuing to move...

We\'re having fun over on the new blog creating exfoliating scrubs with jojoba beads!Suspending jojoba beads in foaming facial cleansers, including one with foaming silk & SiligelFoaming bath butter scrubs with jojoba beads! We\'ll be playing...

We?re continuing to move things over from the old blog to the new, so you can find things like the ingredients and emollients list under ?resources? on the site. That?s where you?ll find the list of links for the duplication formulas as well as the...

Weekly digest, February 25th to March 3rd, 2018Welcome to this week\'s digest of posts! I\'m sharing what\'s been going on over at the new blog with you on the old blog so those of you who receive these notifications by email can see...

Welcome to this week\'s digest of posts! I\'m sharing what\'s been going on over at the new blog with you on the old blog so those of you who receive these notifications by email can see what\'s happening!Just so you know, you can find posts...

As you probably know, I?ve been down for most of the month with searing muscle spasms that make it hard to sit up, and although I?ve been working on a new e-zine, it isn?t ready yet.To that end, I?m offering every $10 Patreon subscriber the e-zine...

As I might have warned you, I\'ve been going down rabbit holes and following my curiosity as I answer your questions and share formulas I\'ve been working on for a while. It may seem chaotic - and it kinda is when combined with heavy painkillers...

Join me on the blog for a Valentine\'s Day roller ball massage oil made with essential or fragrance oils or even some sweetened flavour oils. (Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more!)Don\'t forget to check out the posts on the new blog as that\'s...

I\'ve been having a blast playing with all kinds of surfactants and thickeners over the last 18 months, and I\'m getting ready to share them with you shortly.In the meantime, check out these new posts on the new blog about surfactants!Using...

I\'m sorry I haven\'t written more this week, but my lower back/hip has been killing me, making it hard to sit up or even balance my laptop on my knees in bed. I had to cancel at class at Voyageur Soap & Candle yesterday as I can\'t stand for...

I\'m having such great fun sharing those things I\'ve learned falling down rabbit holes as I research some of the questions you\'ve posed or ingredients I\'ve found. I had a great question from Derek about liposomes I\'ve been researching...

Welcome to the digest for the new blog for January 27th to February 2nd, 2018. As you\'ll see, I\'ve had a super busy week thanks to my new contacts! I\'ve been able to sit in my lovely chair and write for hours with these new ones, which is...

It\'s been a slightly slower week for posts as I\'ve been working like a demon to get the new e-zine, Botanical Extracts, part two: Oil soluble extracts & infused oils, ready for the $10 Patreon subscribers! I still have a duplication or two to...