Recent content by Mikeyduece

thank you so much for all the infno! man i knew it took a lot of leaves for the oil but wow! lol. guess i might need to research a vendor that can sell in bulk, think i found a good site, $120 per gallon, lol ouch!

I'm trying to grow my own tea tree indoors to maybe make my own oil. I have not been able to find a site that would be able to offer any info on how to find out what nutrients this plant likes. I live in CO, so indoor growing supplies and nutrients are not scarce. haha. I'm sure my search...

my recipe works great no bugs at all. ya i was reading about the borax/beeswax combo too. gonna have to try that as well. My bro inlaw doesnt like the smell of neem oil, so i use rosemary. im experimenting on my small garden for his larger one. the rosemary oil suffocates the bugs and i...

sorry to jsut be throwing names out there, lol. I'm just looking things up but get cvague reviews of what it does. Thank you so much for putting up with my noobness :D going to try glyceryl oleate, maybe gum arabic, acacia gum? and thinking of an orange lemongrass blend for a preservative

Thank you so much for the quick replies:D Ya, I'm trying to make this organic as possible. Would like to sell it eventually and it'd be nice to be able to put the organic label on it. i got the xanthan gum as emulsifier from the bob's redmill site. i have only used lecithin that i had left...

insecticidal soap. 1oz oil ~1/8oz olive oil & coconut liquid soap concentrate ~.5g cayenne 1gal water optiphen(still working on ratio)(thinking of trying ND or plus too) i make the oil soap cayenne mix and add preservative. then as I need to spray my garden i mix up a gallon of water and...

I am trying to make an emulsion of infused oil and soap base concentrate to add as needed to water. My problem is that while my oil/soap emulsifies well with either xanthan gum or lecithin, once added to water it doesn't emulsify with that. it will mix if shaken vigorously but as soon as I...