Digital BW, The Print

What may have worked is the addition of water and then some warming/heat and shaking in the bottle.


Rationale:  There may have been a loss of water or solubility due to physical reasons.  Adding water to the concentrate would allow the Triton & glycol to mix.  Keeping track of the water added and adding this to the final equation would keep everything balanced.


They key here is not to take a shaken portion of the concentrate and adding water to that, but adding water to the whole concentrate.  Any portion taken  from the concentrate would no be equal in ratio to the original.

What may unknowingly happen, is that the product congealed (e.g cloudiness) an separated into layers.  The user takes some product to dilute, and unknowingly siphons off part of the top layer which appear very clear.  Now the product is TOO concentrated, and will never do back into a clear solution.  Hence the need to add water back to get the water / Triton level back to the proper proportion.

FWIW, it's a nuisance with brown bottles, as you never really see what is going on.  We did some tests, and the basic fact, is that for most product, unless stored in full sunlight or a window, placing it in dark brown or blue bottles serves no purpose except to give you a false sense of security and hide cosmetic or stability problems.

-= Chris =-

----- "Tony Sleep" <TonySleep@halftone.co.uk> wrote:

> On 10/12/2010 -= Chris =- wrote:
> > Dunno, but this is normal behavior of the product. All you needed to
> 
> > do, is gently warm the product and stir until clear.
> 
> I tried that. It didn't just turn cloudy, it formed large sheets of a
> 
> slimy, soft, whitish gossamer material that did not redissolve.
> Stirring 
> or shaking just broke it up, warm or cold.
> 
> The container had a clear warning on it about never exposing to low
> temps 
> (below 40F IIRC but it was a long time ago), which I only read after
> the 
> event.
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> Tony Sleep
> http://tonysleep.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
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