How do people make potions?
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mixing ingredients together, adding heat, air...its alot like cooking
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This website has a very nice description of how to make homemade soap\n\nhttp://www.teachsoap.com/soapmakingmethods.html
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I am in pharmacy school. If you want to have notes on what chemicals are involved in making medicines in the traditional sense, you can find texts on chinese medicine in a library (there is some thinking involved as the chinese names for herbs and plants are different than the latin ones, and also the chinese use a different system of medicine than the west). If you want to know about chemical synthesis, look into the field of organic chemistry, which is difficult to understand or explain, hence the need for an advanced degree to do much lab work. But those are two places where you can look for your answers. Its rather difficult to obtain potassium permagnate and such because many of these chemicals can also be used for rapid oxidation reactions (ie, explosions). It is easy enough though, to order some essential oils and misscelanious herbs after reading a bit on chinese medicine and using that to treat maladies.
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Have people crazy about HP see this question on yahoo answers and give you like 50 cool points. (aka me<-- the crazy about hp person). ^_^\nhmm, if you're doing an online RPG or something then just go to like any HP forums and such to chat it up with people and then invite them to  your RPG. \nIf you're doing it in real life then I guess.. ask your friends if they would want t do it and then maybe putting up signs at school and start a random club.. \nI Hope that I made sense and helped you out ^_^\nxox bingbop_02
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Cauldrons, spits, tongs, forks, knives, cleavers, brick or clay ovens.\n\nSee the amazon link for books on medieval cookery!
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Make Bubble solution\n\nDifficulty: Easy\n\nTime Required: 10 minutes plus rest time\n\nWhat You Need:\n1/2 c. dishwashing liquid\n4 1/2 c. water\n4 T. glycerin\nlarge covered container\nbubble wands\n\n\nHere's How:\n1.   Combine 1/2 cup dishwashing detergent, 4 1/2 cups water, and 4 tablespoons of glycerin in a large container with a cover.\n\n2.   Mix well, then allow the mixture to rest, covered, until ready for use.\n\n3.   Pour bubble solution into a shallow container. Dip bubble wands -- such as cookie cutters, shaped pipe cleaners or wire -- into the solution and blow!\n\n\nTips:\nJoy is usually the recommended brand of dishwashing liquid.\nFor best results, use distilled water.\nAs an alternative to glycerin, some recipes recommend using white corn syrup.
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You get a precise formula for your soda. You do a patent search with the U.S. patent office to make sure there is nothing too similar, and then you get a patent attorney to help you file your idea.\nRecipes, however, are rarely patented. Just keep it secret and figure out a way to mass produce it and maybe you'll be rich!
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When I ran into that problem, I bought a bunch of funky jars and went to the Bulk Barn for flour, chocolate chips, sugar and any other ingredients to make cookie or squares! You put all the dry ingredients in layers in the jar, and attach the recipe! All the person has to add (usually) is eggs, milk and/or water! I know there is a book you can get through Avon that has recipe cards, ribbons and instructions....also try http://www.organize-house.com/gifts-in-a-jar.html\n\nI hope this helps!!!  (o=
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You can use salt or baking soda instead of herbs as well
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distill\n\nboil liquid, and cool the steam.
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please do not do this for a science project.  too common.  but if you really want to know...most ppl get a small coke bottle and mould clay around it to get the mountain shape.
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MMM, my family would make icecream when I was a kid. Just go get a recipe off of the net. Unless you want to sit and stir your icecream by hand for 30 minutes I would suggest you invest in an icecream maker. It will come with instructions and recipes. Ive even seen them at the goodwill and salvation army. When Old people pass away the people getting rid of their stuff either dont know what it is or have no intentions of making icecream when they can just spend $1.50 and go to dairy queen. It made sence to make icecream when I was a kid because we had chickens, milkcows and all we had to buy was sugar and rocksalt.\n\n2 cups heavy cream\n1 cup whole milk\n3/4 cup sugar\n1/8 teaspoon salt\n3 vanilla beans, split lengthwise \n2 large eggs\nSpecial equipment: an instant-read thermometer \n\n\n\n\n\nCombine cream, milk, sugar, and salt in a heavy saucepan. Scrape seeds from vanilla beans with tip of a knife into cream mixture, then drop in pods. Heat cream mixture just to a boil. \n\nWhisk eggs in a large bowl, then add hot cream mixture in a slow stream, whisking. Pour mixture into saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until slightly thickened and registers 170°F on thermometer (do not let boil). \n\nPour custard through a fine-mesh sieve into a clean metal bowl, then cool, stirring occasionally. Chill, covered, until cold, at least 3 hours. \n\nFreeze custard in an ice cream maker. Transfer to an airtight container and put in freezer. \n\nCooks' notes:\n• To cool custard quickly after straining, set bowl in a larger bowl of ice and cold water and stir until chilled. \n• Custard can be chilled up to 24 hours.\n\nMakes about 1 1/2 qt.
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You could try going to the How Stuff Works web site. In addition to showing how something works, they also, for some items, provide links to info about how the item is created.\n\nOn the Science channel, a Discovery Network, there is a show called "How It's Made" which airs weekly. I've linked both sites below.
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Kombucha is so easy to make, it is hard to believe…\n\nYou can make your very own Kombucha tea at home with very little money, time or effort. It is simple to make and very rewarding.\n\nWithout modern equipment or facilities people have been able to make this enriching brew for generations, so you should have no problem \n\nYou can do it by following this simple method, easy, easy, easy… \n\nYou will need:\n\nA suitable brewing container, about 5 litre / 1 gallon capacity (see information on brewing containers)\n\n\nA piece of muslin, kitchen towel or some other piece of clean porous material. A size that will cover the top of the brewing container with some overlap.\n\n\nA large elastic band to hold the material on the container.\n\n\nA thermometer (optional)\n\n\n4 litres (plus a glass) of water (boiled and cooled or filtered)\n\n\nTea (6 teaspoons loose or 6 tea bags), black, green or a mixture of both.\n\n\n320g refined white sugar (ordinary household sugar).\n\n\nA healthy Kombucha culture (information on where to get a culture here)\n\n\n400ml of ready brewed Kombucha or 60ml (4 tablespoons) distilled vinegar (white, apple, cider or white wine vinegar). If you are using vinegar, it must be distilled - not live, brewed or fermented.\n\n\nSuitable bottles (4 litres worth) (see information on bottles)\n\n\nA kitchen measuring jug \n\nNote: Cleanliness is very important - hands, equipment etc. And the first thing you should do is to clean everything that you are going to use. \n\n\nMake your nutrient (sweet tea) solution:\n\nThis is the liquid that feeds the culture and is turned into the finished Kombucha tea. \n\nTo make the nutrient, take approx. 1 litre of water. \n\nThe water should either be filtered or should already have been boiled for at least 5 minutes. \n\nBring the water to the boil in a kettle, stainless steel or heat-resistant glass household cooking pot. \n\nAfter boiling, add the sugar and tea, stir it till the sugar dissolves, then leave off the boil to infuse for about 15 minutes.\n\nPut the other 3 litres, and the extra glass of cool water into your brewing container.\n\nWhen the 15 minutes are up, strain out the loose tea (if used) or remove the tea bags; then add the sweet tea to the rest of the water in the brewing container.\n\nThe 4 litres of nutrient needs to be between 20°C - 30°C, this is where the thermometer comes in useful. You might be able to judge this yourself, it's about room temperature. Just make sure that it's not too hot, otherwise you could kill your new culture very quickly. \n\n\nAdding the culture: \n\nOnce at the right temperature, pop the culture in the liquid. It may float or sink, it doesn't matter which, it will work just the same. Then add the 400ml of finished Kombucha or 60ml of distilled vinegar if you don't have any Kombucha tea.\n\nTime to brew: \n\nThat's it.\n\n\n \nJust cover the top of the container with your muslin or kitchen towel and use the elastic band to hold it in place. The brew needs air but definitely not insects, plant or mould spores \n\nMove the container to a suitable location. Somewhere that it can be left undisturbed for about a week. It should be at a constant(ish) temperature 20°C - 30°C, away from tobacco smoke, strong smells and not in the kitchen if there is a lot of grease in the air from frying food.\n\nYou could possibly use your living room (providing no-one smokes) or an airing cupboard. If you do put your brew into a cupboard please bear in mind a couple of things: \n\nIt needs to be left undisturbed the whole time so, don't put it on top of your stack of towels or bed linen. \nThe culture needs air, so leave the door ajar. \n5 days later…\n\nAfter 5 days, it is time to taste! \n\nBy now, you should have a new baby culture forming on top of your brew and the tea might be nearly be ready. Exciting! \n\nIf you take take a good deep sniff in your brewing container it will probably smell like pure vinegar, so
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Man where do you people come up with this stuff.
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Very simple...... I did the same in grammar school......used modeling clay to form your volcano. Make sure the walls are solid, as you will be pouring liquid into it. Pour white vinegar in the volcano, (red food dye makes it  looks pretty cool), when you are ready to make your volcano "erupt", add some baking soda, and watch it bubble and overflow! Have fun!
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First, go into the "Extra Stuff" Section. Turn the radio off, then on and wait a few seconds. Listen to the announcement telling you to put six drops of red potion followed by three of the green potion on a plant. Now, leave and click on the Eraser Portkey on the desktop. It brings you to the mysterious door. Now, follow the instructions with the potion on the plant. Now you have another scrapbook piece, revealing (around the time of Prisoner of Azkaban) genders of teachers and some attempts for hippogriff names. \n \nyou actually have to go through all that stuff otherwise it won't work