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Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
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Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 13 9:43 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

Barefoot Andrew wrote:

vegplot wrote:

I hope you succeed.

Me too. I want to be a kept man

Kept where?

In the shed!

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 13 9:44 pm Post subject:

Wentworth wrote:

Rob R wrote:

Barefoot Andrew wrote:

vegplot wrote:

I hope you succeed.

Me too. I want to be a kept man

Kept where?

Probably in the lab instead of a rabbit

now there is an idea!

Barefoot Andrew
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Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 13 9:51 pm Post subject:
A.

Went

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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 13 10:22 pm Post subject:

Barefoot Andrew wrote:

Did you really think this was just a mess around - get out now before you're ex foliated and buffed

https://tinyurl.com/b7wkrl5

it is all planned out......

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 13 10:31 pm Post subject:
That scary Smithesque photo would Not make good advertising

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 13 10:34 pm Post subject:
If you need any allergic-to-the-21st-century testers, give us a shout

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 13 10:36 pm Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

If you need any allergic-to-the-21st-century testers, give us a shout

you're on x

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 7:50 am Post subject:
On the website side, I have found Serif Webplus X6 to be very useful.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 8:36 am Post subject:
Best of luck with all that Nell. I'm sure you'll do well.

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 11:25 am Post subject:
I am going to spend this afternoon with pen and paper doing formulating

powerjen

Joined: 23 Jan 2013
Posts: 44
Location: Argyll & Bute

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 12:37 pm Post subject:
Good luck with your new venture! I make toiletries and remember the formulating part was the hardest bit of it all. It was one thing to 'make a product' but it was something else completely to then put that concoction down on paper as an exact formulation!

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 12:44 pm Post subject:

powerjen wrote:

Good luck with your new venture!

I make toiletries and remember the formulating part was the hardest bit of it all. It was one thing to 'make a product' but it was something else completely to then put that concoction down on paper as an exact formulation!

Thank you x
I tend to do it the other way around. I formulate on paper and transfer to percentages. Then I know I can reproduce accurately and scale up or down.
sort of start with a mission statement and go from there.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 1:05 pm Post subject:

its calculating allergen percentages that always gives me a headache, partly because the IFRA website is so horrible to find your way around, and even very common and widely considered to be 'safe' ingredients often have just enough of one of the notifiable potential allergens to need it adding to the label. I do have a spreadsheet that crunches most of the numbers for me, but I like to do the odd one from scratch to double check no errors are creeping in, and it always takes me ages

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 1:06 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

It's labelling that is taking up most of the time....Gah...rules and regs!

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 13 1:13 pm Post subject:
Yep. On the plus side, once you have it cracked for most of your range, a new variation isnt that hard to do as you have the basic layout already prepared. I think the reg that I found most painful was the stamped for trade scales being so expensive compared to an identical but not stamped model.

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