huh?

i brought some lip balm stuff up to the rich's house this weekend (i have done this before), so i can catch up on some stuff i didn't have time to do this week.

but my scale is being really, really weird! it's a myweigh lotionmaking scale from lotioncrafter, and i've never had problems w/it before but today, i'll tare it out to 0, and it will seem fine, and then just as i'm about to weigh something, it will decide it wasn't REALLY at 0, it was really at 0.034 or something.

same thing when i measure something-- i'll measure out jojoba til it gets to 2.07 oz (or whatever i'm trying to measure out) and stays there and then i reach for the next ingredient and when i return my eyes to the scale, it's decided the jojoba doesn't REALLY weigh 2.07 oz, it's somewhere between, oh, 2.075 and 2.08. no wait, it's really 2.085. yeah, that's it. 2.085.

i put the next oil down and consider reducing its quantity to keep the original overall oils weight consistent, but before i've really decided, i look at the scale and it's wavering, again.

wtf!

it's not a crazy battery, b/c i have it connected to the wall outlet. i moved the scale to a flat counter, away from my computer and the fridge; unplugged any other electrical appliances in the room.

what is going on?!

i know for lip balm it doesn't really REALLY matter that much... but i have a bunch of lotions and soap to make at home tomorrow, and i don't want to be using tenth-of-an-ounce measurements when i really need my hundredths to be working right!

frustrating! if you have any ideas re: what is up, please, please let me know.

eeeeeee! look what i got!

something so simple, and yet so divine!

i love making lip balm-- i make GOOD lip balm. REALLY good lip balm, if i do say so myself. but, like lining soap molds, there is an aspect of lip balm making that sort of sucks unless you have a little something on your side. in the case of soap molds, you cut out the time-consuming, pain-in-the-butt aspect of lining w/ freezer paper or plastic wrap with silicone or silicone-lined molds. with LIP BALM, this little plastic doodad w/ more air than plastic dramatically reduces the awful, painful, *loathesome* tedium of filling the tubes.

do you know how many tubes i've filled in my relatively young career as a lip balm maker? hundreds, literally hundreds. one by one. with disposable plastic droppers. SUCK.

this. this changes everything, and i am STOKED.

this weekend: honey-orange and honey-grapefruit are back on a roll. tea treelief and sweet cream (white chocolate) are ready to go.

now if only there was some plastic fix for the LABELING issue.