Resin Coating Real Orchids. Complete with All Formulas, Do's, Dont's and Detailed instructions.

As a retired chemical engineer, I thought that it couldn't be too difficult for me to find a perfect way to dry, preserve and coat orchids with resin.
Well ... I was wrong!
It took me more than half a year of hard labor and a lot of money to work it out.
As I didn't want to use the conventional method of drying the flowers in silica gel, because it does not give very good results, the first problem was to make a liquid that dehydrates the flowers and preserves them. I started with formalin and...