Reddit reviews NOW Foods, Citric Acid, Sprouting Aid, Great Substitute for Salt, Preservative Found in Citrus Fruits, 4-Ounce
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NATURAL PRESERVATIVE: If you're into sprouting then you're already familiar with citric acid, a natural preservative typically found in citrus fruits such as lemons and limes. Citric acid helps to inhibit the formation of mold and other bacterial growth, an all-too-common occurrence when sprouting in a jar due to high temperatures and humidity.SPROUTING AID/MAKES A GREAT SUBSTITUTE FOR SALT: NOW Foods Citric Acid is also useful for canning vegetables and fruit preserves. It's a food grade acid present in many natural foods.CERTIFICATIONS/CLASSIFICATIONS: Kosher, Non-GMO, Made without Gluten, Vegan/VegetarianBecause you are what you eat, NOW Real Food is committed to providing delicious, healthy, natural, and organic foods. Keep it natural. Keep it real.Packaged in the USA by a family owned and operated company since 1968
NOTE: I have revised AGAIN how I make lather---most recent update is 8 Mar 2015. Now I find I use the damp-brush method exclusively now: wet the brush well, give it a shake or two (and experiment with practice lathers to see how much/little water to leave in the brush) and start brushing the soap briskly and firmly.
I have found that Barrister & Mann, Dapper Dragon, Green Mountain, Mike's Natural, and Stirling Soap Company lather better (for me) if I start with a brush add small amounts of water while loading the brush to get a good lather, though others have no trouble doing what they usually do.
Experiment with adding small amounts of water and not and see which works better for you. (And, of course, when you build the lather on your beard, you can add small amounts of water to the brush and work it into the lather if the lather seems too dry.)
Here's how I made lather. If you have a boar or horsehair brush, wet the knot thoroughly under the hot-water tap and let the brush stand, dripping wet, on its base while you shower. That serves to soak and soften the knot. Then:
For soap and harder shaving creams: Wet brush fully---sopping, dripping wet---and then shake it 2-3 times to remove most of the water. You can hold the tub of soap over the sink on its side in case of spills, but if you've shaken just right the brush will still contain water but not so much as will spill away. (Practice lathers can help you discover the right shake.) Brush the soap briskly and firmly (enough so that the bristles splay somewhat) until the bubbles being formed are microscopic, at which point the brush is fully loaded.
Brush the soap until the bubbles being formed are microscopic---creamy rather than foamy---then bring the brush to your (wet, washed) beard and work the lather up and into the stubble, taking your time. If the lather seems a little dry or a little stiff (too much soap), then run a driblet of water into the center of the brush and work that into the lather on your face. I've never had lather that's too wet with this technique, but sometimes I do need to add a little water.
Loading the brush fully, for a three-pass shave, takes me about ten seconds, as shown in this video, but you may at first have to load for perhaps 15-25 seconds.
Do several to practice. Try loading for shorter and longer times. Try adding little driblets of water, working it into the lather, little by little, until you can tell the lather's too wet. I.e., play around with it to get experience and try things out. (Since making good lather is a matter of experience, get as much experience as quickly as you can.)
I've found that the "microscopic bubble" indicator is the most reliable sign that the brush is fully loaded.
If the lather's still bad, suspect hard water and test water hardness by doing a distilled water shave: if the lather's noticeably better with the demineralized water, your water's hard.
One remedy: run the sink half-full of hot water (or cold water, if you like a cold-water shave). Dissolve a pinch or two of citric acid in it---not much. Use that water for the pre-shave beard wash, the lather, and rinsing the razor and splashing water on your face at the end of each pass. Do the final rinse with tap water. Use the lather from a distilled-water shave to define the baseline quality of lather you are going for.
You can get a small container of pure citric acid on-line (here, for example), but it's also available in healthfood stores (it's used as a salt substitute and also to prevent mold when growing sprouts) and where canning or brewing supplies are sold.
Read this post and this post to see the difference it made in two instances.
For soft shaving creams: If it's a firm, hard cream (like Figaro, for example, or Tabula Rasa, or Coate's Limited Edition or Dr. Selby's 3x Concentrated Shaving Cream), make lather as if for a soap, as described above. If it's a relatively soft cream (AlsShaving.com shaving cream, TOBS Avocado, Castle Forbes, or the like): wet brush well, shake it a couple of times, and twirl the tips in the tub. (If the cream's in a tube, squeeze out a little and put it on the brush or smear it on your wet beard on your cheeks.)
Then use the brush to spread the cream over your entire beard, so that your beard is coated with a thin layer of almost pure shaving cream. Run a driblet of water into the center of the brush, and brush your beard to work the water into the shaving cream. Repeat as needed until you get the lather where you want it.
Again, play around: keep adding little bits of water until the lather's too wet, testing it perhaps along the way between thumb and forefinger to see how slick it is. Slickness will increase, and then when the lather's too wet, slickness will fall off sharply.
The more you play around with test lathers, the faster you learn to make good lather.
This is as cheap as I can find it on Amazon, and it says 100% pure. I've never used it, so I'll leave the judgement to you. I've never seen it sold pre-mixed in PG at any of the usual DIY vendors (ecigxpress, Wizard, High Desert, RTS, One Stop, Nude, Bull City).
yeah the flame kind of ruins everything. anyways what you should have done was make some tea. crush it all up or in your case take the powder add it to a pot with water. I use 100% pure citric acid but you can use 100% pure lemon juice. put a little bit of that in with your mix. Now slowly turn the heat up. continuously stir it. you only want the water to have a couple bubble ups every now. To much heat and again you will ruin the psilocybin. so take it slow. let it go for about 20min. Before you start the process you can take a MAOI e.g: syrian rue. However, Read up on MAOI before taking them and what they do. They could mess with other medications and food.
They sell banana cream on amazon as well with amazon fulfillment. Its cheaper as Lorann's shipping is generally pretty pricey. Also they take forever to ship it out from them directly, whereas Amazon is the same day.
You can also make your own citric acid, its a lot cheaper than buying it! Just PG + citric acid 10%, heat it up and stir it until all the crystals are desolved and you have a lifetime supply of citric acid for $6 - Citric Acid on Amazon
Not sure if you have picked any up yet but here is what I get if you can wait on the shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0014UCJ8Q/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?qid=1418907275&sr=8-7&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70
FYI LG, your citric acid link is broken. This seems to be what you want.
I used this with WL PG, and double boiled the solution for 15-20 minutes until completely clear. I did use measuring spoons instead of scale so it is approx 10% citric 90% PG.
I bought this from amazon and mixed ~3g in 10mL of PG. I ran some hot water over the bottle to help it dissolve. Cheap, easy, and I have enough citric acid to last a lifetime of vaping.