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First. Even if you have to, make a save game, and waste all of your materials exploring the map. The 'potions' are spots on the map and they're always in the same place. You make a potion by putting the potion icon in that area, you get I, II, or III showing up, and boiling it when it's on it. First time you boil over a ? potion icon, you unlock to see what that potion is. Personally i have a few '♥♥♥♥'/unsellable potions where i just explored and cared to unlock the potion effects.
Secondly. Haggling. The game isn't very soft on haggling. Basically, you don't care about any of the icons per se (nor which side they go to/are going to or where you cursor is, left/right). Imagine what you're doing is keeping to 'push' the scale in your favor by hitting those golden markers. It also ticks down, so if you leave it enough time, it'll keep going against you. Missing a marker is manageable, but if you miss two or three in a haggle it's quite bad and hard to get back to at least even from. It's exactly what you think, keep hitting the markers as quick as you can, as many in succession as you can. The scales you will see eventually 'bottom down', and the chains on the scale becomes lax and the price doesn't change in your favor anymore. At that point finish haggling on any of the right/left sides of the track, on the green, and you make the sale at that price.
Making money from potions. Always. Always. Always. Sell level 3 potions of a single effect. Even if it costs you one extra material per potion (like the spiral thorn thing which is fantastic for getting the potion where you want it) to make sure you get a level 3 potion, it's worth it economically more than selling L1 or L2. Also, invest your talent points early on into the trading and the haggling until they become 3 talent points cost to level them up. You need money to make money. (buying out all materials on sale from all the traders)
There are no 'chapter 1' or 'chapter 2' recipes. You have a limited number of 'pages' to save a recipe to, and you can gen more by buying Enchanted Paper. Or you can delete existing recipes from the book itself.
A final note on haggling, try to only haggle on buying ingredients and 100gold+ potions. It's not worth it to haggle on 50 gold healing potions. That's to more easily max out your reputation, which means more gold from potions and better/more ingredients in the merchants.
Multiple effects on a potion, as well as all the alchemy things (order of the effects matter for alchemy), are done by travelling the potion bottle on the alchemy map. So 3 frost and 2 poison, means you need to get a level 3 frost effect and then a level 2 poison effect, and then do Finish Potion.
PS: It's vital you use the 'watering down' instrument to the left of your cauldron to get those level 3 potions. It's very hard or very component wasting to get it to level 3 just from components. Some things work well, like 2x Witch Mushroom to exactly get the Mana potion, but it's rare, and in this case, can be expensive and using rare components. But generally, aim to be 'beyond' the effect, with the 'base' where the potion gets dragged on the other side. There is a super faint line going from your potion to the 'base', and if you line that up with the line from the effect to the base, you can precisely then add water and you'll get a level 3 effect.