It's an interesting idea. I'm sure everyone has looked at their salt shaker with Van Berlo's temptation when they found themselves just a tad short of a cardinal reagent. And who doesn't have a jug of hydra-hex in the cleaning supplies under their sink?

May as well make your cardinal reagents all at once, using something cheap and in industrial bulk, and...I suppose you could even put the vial of quintessence back in the hydra-hex jug? Elemental Quintessence  normally needs an isolating environment to last long, and we wouldn't typically think of packing it in household cleaning salt, but surely...

Yes, thank you for this presentation. We often forget the engineering of alchemical engineering, to make alchemy eminently practical, with the real constraints of the common man. In that spirit, I've avoided the typical unmanageable waste polymer for this replication and ensured that it continues for however much hydrated salt you pour out of the jug, instead of asking one to measure the reagent.

- Alchemist Kazyan