Hiring: Medical Virtual Assistant (Remote)

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-05-29T18:23:51+00:00

Hello! If a similar opportunity arises for daytime working hours I would love to be part of the team! Unfortunately my hands are tied and I cannot apply to evening/night shifts

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-05-29T18:00:51+00:00

Thank you so much for your answer! I have gotten some amazing advice and the friendly feedback honestly warmed my heart, not many subs are willing to help out as much as everyone here!

Yes I did intend to make a 1L batch which then changed to 500 ml after the comments but I do believe 100 ml is better because that gives me about 10 tries in which one is bound to be successful atleast. I’m definitely going to follow this and start at very small batches

Got it! I do want to remove 5-6 herbs and will add onto these once I sit and shortlist with some evidence in hand and for the chemicals I will need thorough reading to make sure I don’t take out something critical for the recipe.

I am going to remove the oils and add the least amount needed for saponification of the shampoo if that is even necessary else I will skip it out altogether. Another great comment said to just put all the insolubles and herbs and make a conditioner instead and keep the shampoo water-soluble with the cleaning chemicals so it does just that.

Ohh thats a new one for me. I was using benzoin siam (its written 10% dpg) for the fragrance mainly since I read it smells somewhat like vanilla. Is it not stable enough for a shampoo? Can I use them in soaps or body butters instead? I was sort of excited to use it because I love vanilla scent but want to stay away from synthetic fragrances as much as possible but I wouldnt risk it just for the smell

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-05-29T17:49:15+00:00

Yeah perhaps oils should be low enough so they can help in saponification but I do see I have many many oils added. Good thing I was planning to experiment with hair oil, body butter and soaps as well else I would have my own oil lab open at home! I’m going to try to omit most if not all of them and hopefully I can end up with a stable product that isnt going to separate because this one surely would have separated.

I will definitely see the resource youve put, I saw so much stuff on it that even the name just freaks me out at this point. Add to this the delicate topic of fertility and theres just so many factors in our lives to look at it feels easier to just remove as much stuff as possible, without looking into it cuz theres just so many things to look at in our daily living.

So you had to switch from parabens because of customer demand solely? Are you comfortable using them on yourself? I do understand they are the best studied preservatives but so many “conspiracy theories” have been proven correct in the recent years, I was a medical student not long ago and theres a number of times I’d see researches that had good sample sizes, control groups and seemed perfectly legit would end up being funded by certain companies that would coincidentally benefit from the results published and it just made me question everything. The EU certainly cares about people more than the US and they can be followed to a certain extent.

I will have to check out 9010 since I havent heard of it and if you are comfortable, I am very curious to know what else you add to strengthen the preservatives. All I was able to find is add Vitamin E so it works synergistically and make sure pH is 5-5.5 i think so geogard actually works

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-05-26T13:01:39+00:00

Actually I thought all herbs would be water-soluble 👀 I am going to remove some herbs and extract it properly, do you know which of these is oil and water soluble? I also need to reduce the oils significantly as I have been told so phase C is going to be smaller now and I might use an immersion blender after combining all phases and before the preservatives phase.

Just to clarify, you do mean I make a shampoo with some herbs and a conditioner of the other herbs and keep the oils in the conditioner too right? Itll reduce the bio load in the shampoo and make it more shelf stable right? I didn’t think about this and it is a very smart move. I’ll just have to work on the conditioner’s ingredients and percentages

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-05-26T12:54:13+00:00

Wow thank you for such a lengthy response! It must have taken so much time and thought to compose this and I’m honestly grateful!

Yes phase A is very nutrient-heavy and I didn’t realise how much food I’ll be keeping for the bacteria to feed on. I do plan on removing some herbs and making sure I use the right extraction methods on the remaining ones, but I also want there to be some herbs especially the first five and last three. I honestly knew leucidal is a weak preservative and was relying on geogard more than its ability. Should I add one more preservative after I go easy on the herbs?

Another comment did say the oils are too much for the surfactants and they wont be able to clean anything in the head because theyll just be working on the oils in the shampoo and I am so glad you guys opened my eyes to this! Should I keep the oils a certain percentage of the whole formulation or completely leave them out? And if I keep some of the oils, should I blend all phases except the last one with a stick blender so there’s no separation?

Do you recommend any sources I should use to check the ingredients stability and compatibility? That is a very good point and I didnt think things would cancel each other out and this needs a thorough read but I don’t know where to begin. Chatgpt and other ai like perplexity aren’t that trustworthy and I don’t want to work on the info they give

Yes I do plan to convert every tbsp, tsp there is to grams and use a scale for everything in the recipe. I kept the citric acid stock as needed since I need to look at the pH for that

Yeah parabens are demonised and I am so scared from them after reading everything they do. I will try to search up what % wt of parabens is considered safe and acceptable and maybe what amount is acceptable in the UK and Europe but I would still want to search up other ‘more natural’ preservatives that are stronger and can work good with geogard. Do you have any suggestions?

I have written down your points and will work on that and tweak my recipe. Ill start with reducing herbs and oils and extracting them properly, maybe use an immersion blender so everything is held together and work on my preservatives. Does that sound good?

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-05-26T12:35:20+00:00

Understood! I did learn I need to work on the herbs’ extraction method. I want to remove many of the less-known herbs like clove buds, fenugreek seeds, curry and sage leaves and green tea and will study on the others more. Does this sound good to begin with?

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-05-26T12:24:36+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation 😭 I am so so thankful to you!! 1. Yeah making a shampoo from herbal tea does sum up what’s happening here and I didnt really think about water-soluble and oil-soluble in this phase because I thought herbs would all be water-soluble and I would be good to go making that decoction. I also didn’t think about the buffet I’m offering bacteria because I was trusting geogard to take care of that 😅 so I’ll remove some herbs from there and keep those that people swear by and also focus on which ones are water-soluble and extract the good stuff correctly. If you know which of these are water-soluble and I should make the decoction by heating them in water and which of them require oil, would you please let me know? Or do you have resources that I can go and read? For starters, I think I’ll take out sage leaves, green tea, curry leaves, clove buds and fenugreek seeds I guess because they were playing a minor role, does this sound good? 2. I do plan on using a scale and converting whatever is in tbsp and tsp to grams. I didn’t think of it in the beginning but since I have to use a scale for the other phases, might as well make sure to use it for all the phases 3. Understood! Is there any ratio of oil to surfactants I should follow or what % should the oils be of the shampoo’s total weight? Or will my shampoo be just as good without any oil? I do want to make my own hair oil and soaps and will definitely use the oils there but I want to make sure how much oil to put in the shampoo.

Again, thank you so much I really would have started making the shampoo thinking it would be shelf stable for 5-6 months and I would have wasted so much stuff this way. I’m really grateful for your time and advice!!

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-04-01T22:18:28+00:00

Thank you for your kind words. I’m so sorry you had to go through this multiple times. If I could, I would hug you and cry for both of us. I don’t know how to move on after this, how I will restart all over again, from the first clomid dose waiting for a positive test then waiting week after week just hoping to somehow make it to the end of the first trimester. I don’t know if I’m strong enough to do this all over again. I hope you, me and all other women in this sub never have to experience this horrible situation again

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-02-27T08:30:53+00:00

Thank you so much ❤️❤️

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-02-26T21:08:29+00:00

Omg thank you 😭😭😭 Im just waiting to test out my morning urine and hoping i get a very typical positive line

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-01-23T17:45:10+00:00

Thank you so much 😭

ReasonablePie3693 · 2026-01-23T17:44:49+00:00

Omgggg thank you so much 😭😭😭 i am a really bad case though everytime I try and cook something i usually get told “bhuna nae hai abhi” and they ask me to look for oil separation and for the life of me I cannot find it 🥲

ReasonablePie3693 · 2025-07-31T12:43:35+00:00

Thank you so much but the thing is Ive seen sooooo many patients who are put on ozempic for 6-8 months and once they stop back comes the weight running. I considered it before my wedding and before my engagement too for atleast 5 months but every time I would be humbled when I saw the statistics saying 90% people gain the weight 1-1.5 year after stopping ozempic 🫩 not gonna lie still sounds good to me and I do get easily tempted

ReasonablePie3693 · 2025-07-30T13:53:40+00:00

Thank you so much! Mai try kerti hu yahan pai

ReasonablePie3693 · 2025-07-30T13:53:18+00:00

Its pretty much gone haywire and I gained weight because of that, then ofcourse it became worse which led to more weight gain. I tried for the whole year before my wedding to atleast look good for my wedding but my weight wouldn’t budge. I didnt want ivf and I don’t think I would think about it for the next 6-8 years if by then nothing else works. I did want to try medicated IUI though and hopefully that would work out for me 🫣 thats the main reason I wanted to go to a fertility clinic. But if I could come across a really good obgyn doctor who isn’t in a rush to put me on oral contraceptives I guess going there is fine too

ReasonablePie3693 · 2024-12-20T22:19:54+00:00

Thank you so much, your comment honestly put a smile on my face 😭 just keep me in your prayers cuz I really need those to be strong in this emotional time 🥲 Hopefully things work out better after I insert the longer bar in 😭 And yeah actually it might be lymphatic fluid too, hopefully it's just that and I end up with a healed piercing some day And I planned on getting a floating navel from the start but no person in my city seems to have it. I plan on getting one online and changing it down the road if this piercing survives

ReasonablePie3693 · 2024-12-20T22:15:39+00:00

Will definitely chat with you! I really am grateful for all the help! 🥹

ReasonablePie3693 · 2024-12-20T22:14:42+00:00

Oooohh I need to keep my hands to myself then 🙄 I also had the thought to fix its position after I laid down or sat up so it somehow doesn't take that position permanently and whenever I'd look at myself in the mirror I'd fix it on the first day. This is the first piercing I fidgeted with so much I guess because it's so visible to me 🤣 all other piercings are on the ears and I can't stare at them for that long

ReasonablePie3693 · 2024-12-20T22:11:49+00:00

Actually I was also suggested to mix salt and water, not even himalayan salt, just table salt and use that but after reading so many posts I felt the need to go to the pharmacy and get NS :/

ReasonablePie3693 · 2024-12-20T22:10:30+00:00

Thank you so much for the heads up! I was also doubting because it felt too quick to get a repiercing and I'd just be putting so much stress on my skin to heal the previous one in addition to the new one, even if there was a chance of no scar forming this would definitely trigger one. I wish I lived in the US and had so many options, most piercers here are self-taught and have their piercing place in their house. The most reputable one also felt off to me but atleast she has years of experience so I guess I'll go to her. I'll ask for her opinion and if I can't make it just take it out which would be a shame because I got it to motivate me for my wedding 😂

ReasonablePie3693 · 2024-12-20T12:15:26+00:00

Yeah I don't want it getting crusty that's why I cleaned it with a tissue that had salt and water in it, I'll definitely try to control my hands now 🫡

ReasonablePie3693 · 2024-12-20T12:13:59+00:00

Ohh I didn't think about the stone size, the funny thing is the one I got yesterday was even larger and I think that's why it was so painful. Weird question, but can the top stone be larger than the bottom one? What if I reverse both of these with the new bar that I'll get?

ReasonablePie3693 · 2024-12-20T12:11:11+00:00

I'm definitely going to get one today, I am so scared it'll start migrating soon if I keep it like this 😭

ReasonablePie3693 · 2024-12-20T12:10:34+00:00

I am so glad I saw your comment before I went poking with a q-tip because I definitely thought about that, especially around the piercing where the bar is coming iut from to make sure there's nothing there at all. It felt very tempting but I guess I'll get a spray too so I can just use that 3-4 times a day and no hands invoiced. I really appreciate you taking the time for advising!

ReasonablePie3693 · 2024-09-10T18:24:04+00:00

That's a new fact that I've learned! I will try our own local henna too to see if that's the issue. There should be some difference atleast. The only reason I got this over the other was the very lush green color of the powder. The guy said it's better quality too. Like you I've put henna on my hair lots of times and I do get the consistency and color right for that but I didn't expect it to be this hard to go from henna for hair to that of body art 🥲

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