Hi Wendy, Thank you for sharing your experience! Having helped my husband with tile work before, I can imagine the texture of the first iteration of your cream! I’m so happy that you were able to salvage it with the shea butter. What I’ve been doing lately, is trying to jot down metric conversions as I make a lotion or cream, but I hadn’t thought about doing that consistently with percentages – that’s a great idea! Blue chamomile just doesn’t give much of a tint unless I splash in too much and then when it does, it seems to go a little greenish on me. I’d try indigo powder in it, but I think it’d end up staining skin, so haven’t followed through on that idea. (I probably will one day with a mini less-expensive cream recipe though, just to see what happens!) I hope that your throat is feeling better now!