I’m going to set aside some time this weekend to work on my skin serum. I’ve got the ingredients I need and if I stick to my usual formula, I ought to be able to whip it up in less than an hour. I wanted to order a new peptide that I’d read about, supposedly very good for skin. I just haven’t been able to find a supplier yet.

So besides blogging, cleaning house and doing laundry, I need to get back to my crafting room, too. Perhaps I’ll make a batch of soap and blog about it. Haven’t done that for a while.

That’s how it is now days with paternity questions. I have a few friends whose kids are adults now, and very fine people, too. Unfortunately, their fathers didn’t want to take responsibility and so they denied these kids. Back then, there was no way to prove otherwise. Today, there are dna testing services that will set the record straight on these matters.

I’m very pround of my son for accepting his responsibility with his daughter. Becoming a father at the age of 17 is scary but my son set aside his fears and has done the right thing. I’m proud to be his mom. And Kendyll is lucky to have him as her daddy.

I was never very good at science in high school. I mostly got turned off by biology, probably because the formaldehyde odor in the lab gave me an awful headache. And since I did so badly at biology, I never even considered taking chemistry. I mean, really, Typing III seemed a much better fit at the time.

Jump ahead 3 decades and I’m up to my elbows in soapmaking, lotion making, cream making, shampoo making and all the chemistry that entails. Why didn’t any of those teachers tell me that cosmetics and beauty products are all about chemistry? I would have forced myself to withstand the stench of the biology lab if I could have made my own moisturizer or hair conditioner!

And that brings me to this great find. ChemFinder makes looking up various chemicals a snap. No googling and clicking all over the place. This one site gives you all the info you could need for any chemical. For more comprehensive data, students can purchase a one year subscription to ChemIndex for just $30/year. That’s a great bargain, especially for such a useful reference site.

Even if you aren’t a student, go ahead and check out the site. Look up a chemical, like caffeine, and see all the info you get. Enter a chemical from the ingredient list of one of your cosmetics or your shampoo. See? Chemistry really is interesting, isn’t it?