Evershade · Potions · Apply the Method
THE POTIONS EXPERIMENT
Every brew in the laboratory, built to your choices.
An honest word from the laboratory. The methods below are proved, the amounts are checked, and the safety rules are enforced — the builder will refuse a combination that should not be made, and it only offers each brew the choices that brew can use. But nobody has stood in this laboratory and smelled every pairing it can write. Yours may be the first nose to meet it. That is not a flaw in the experiment; that is the experiment. Make it, note what you find, and label it like you mean it.
Two ways in — choose a potion type, or begin with an ingredient you have. Whichever you pick, the other list narrows to match.
School of Evershade · Potions Laboratory · The methods are taught in the lessons; this page applies them.
THE POTIONS EXPERIMENT · THE DEEP SHELF
The Deep Shelf
Below the everyday shelf sit the difficult potions — the ones with phases, breaking points, and gates. Each has its own room, its own strict builder, and its own rules. The deeper the brew, the stricter the builder.
Lotions & creams — two phases, married warm. It can separate; that is the lesson. The Soap Cauldron
One true cold-process soap, behind a safety gate. No substitutions — lye does not forgive. The Ink Cauldron
Iron gall ink — galls, iron, and gum. Made in Potions; written with in Scrollwork.
THE POTIONS EXPERIMENT · SCHOOL OF EVERSHADE
Learn the Method Behind the Brew
Every brew the Experiment can build is taught properly first, in its own lesson — the method, the safety, and the why behind the amounts. The generator applies the lessons; these pages teach them.
← Return to the Potions Laboratory
Lesson 26 · Infused Lipids Teas & Infusions
Lesson 27 · Hydro-Infusions Syrups & Glycerites
Lesson 28 · Glycerites & Syrup Bases Decoctions & Simmer Pots
Lesson 29 · Decoctions Herbal Acetums
Lesson 30 · Herbal Acetums Extracts & Tinctures
Lesson 32 · Tinctures Hydrosols
Lesson 33 · Distillation & Hydrosols Balms & Salves
Lesson 35 · Balms, Salves & Cerates Candles
Lesson 36 · Candles Sachets
Lesson 37 · Sachets Melt-and-Pour Soap
Lesson 40 · Melt & Pour Soap Bath Salts
Lesson 39 · Crystalline Scrubs & Bath Preparations Pomanders
Lesson 45 · Pomanders & Solid Perfumery
THE COMPOUND BREWS — TWO METHODS, ONE BOTTLE
Lessons 29 & 28 · Decoctions, then Syrup Bases Compound Balm
Lessons 26 & 35 · Infused Lipids, then Balms & Salves Oxymel
Lessons 28 & 30 · Syrup Bases meet Herbal Acetums Shrub
Lesson 30 · Herbal Acetums — the fruit shelf Whipped Butter
Lessons 26 & 35 · Infused Lipids, then Balms & Salves
THE DEEP SHELF — THREE STRICTER ROOMS
Lesson 38 · The Whipped Emulsion — standing on Lessons 26, 27 & 35 The Soap Cauldron
Lesson 41 · Cold-Process Soap — the locked formula The Ink Cauldron
Lesson 48 · Oak Gall Inks
Bath bombs are the Experiment’s own extension of Lesson 39’s bath preparations — the fizz is the laboratory’s addition, and the Experimenter’s Log is where you record what it does.
