^^^^ What he said!!!
I tell you how I have always done it and it works great. Get just a regular inexpensive glass lab thermometer. Take a strip of reg aluminum foil about 2 1/2 in wide and 6in long. Roll it up around the tip of the thermo like rolling a joint leaving about 3/4 of in hanging off the tip of thermo. Then before you get it all the way rolled up fold that 3/4 tip over. Then finish rolling up. Now, on the thinnest side at the tip of thermometer, make a bowl shape right at the tip of thermometer. Drop a tiny tiny amount of your hormone in this small bowl shaped area. Now set this tip on a hot plate, GLASS stove top, heating stirplate, something smooth on top. Pull the thermo to the edge of where heat is or outter edge of the heated surface so as to not consume the tip of thermo then you can push closer to center of surface until thermo is reading approx the melt temp. The closer you bump the tip of thermo toward the center of your heated surface the higher the temp goes and you can regulate it pretty easy. just keep doing it until your product melts and then record the temp. I NEVER have real products melt outside of the actual melt point of the product with this method so if you are doing it right and it is not on point, then the product is not what you think it is. Doing it right consists of several things. One is to make sure to get the foil TIGHT around the tip of that thermometer. If you have a loose and gappy wrap of foil then the results will be skewed.
