u/PoppinPMAGs

I'm creating a natural insect repellent, and stuck on what to use as a preservative/antimicrobial. It's a water/witch hazel based formula with soybean oil and essential oils, Id like for it to be fifra 25b, so taking that into consideration for preservatives

What a major pain in the ass....But they do look cool! Created a new line that I used them in, and after months of testing was excited to finally make candles today......48 x wicks assembled later and I hate them, lol.

Looking to develop a bug spray, and I'm not that familiar with IFRA guidelines. I have a basic recipe, but I'm wanting to use a pre-blended essential oils mix, the IFRA states .29%, which if my math is right (truly might not be, im awful) that would be only 7 drops in a 4 oz finished product. The tutorials I watched on youtube showed people using almost 100 drops of esential oils, so it seems really low in comparison. Just looking for insight

Can anyone help? Just got an Epson 2800 and using online labels, I designed in Canva, brought into Maestro to format, saved as pdf and now I can't get my Mac to print without including a white border. I've tried multiple settings, no border is checked, tried scaling up and can't figure it out.

Hope the lawyers are at least enjoying their windfall!

They were my go to for a lot and always shipped out fast, they were just two states away so I'd usually get my order same week if ordering on a Monday. Now I've had multiple orders delayed weeks at a time, they've become really unreliable. Wondered if anyone else has experienced this?

I have this oil painting that appears to be from the 18th or 19th century. It shows a nighttime scene with a woman in a red cloak and a young man holding a lantern, standing over a fallen figure on what looks like a battlefield. There's a bird of prey in the background and a dramatic sky with the moon near the horizon. Does anyone recognize the story, myth, or literary scene this might be based on? Any help identifying the subject or artist would be greatly appreciated.

https://preview.redd.it/3rb97i3x2i0h1.png?width=940&format=png&auto=webp&s=557fab43c32848b0fc188f59ec1ac503ec600c91

I have a painting from an artist known to paint literary scenes, but I'm having a tough time identifying this scene, I've asked AI to analyze all novels from the time period he was painting 1830-1870, to find any similair stories. It's known that he painted a lot of scenes from Washington Irving novels. However I can not find a scene that comes close to matching. I'm at a loss.

It appears the young woman is holding a blood soaked towel, and there is a possible soldier falling backwards from the cliff, with a cannon and what resemebles a turkey vulture swooping down in the scene.

https://preview.redd.it/zkggx9bfvh0h1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73db3c119db827a4741fc06ef635c6a375901dcc