Month: December 2011

Some interesting downloads

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I found a bunch of brochures for compounding various things for pharmacists, and thought you might be interested. We don’t make medical or health claims for our products, but there’s some interesting information in there about compounding things like styptic pencils, deodorants, and suppositories! Compounding gels Compounding medication sticksCompounding acne products Want more? You can find...

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Essential oils: Orange in surfactant based products

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I love using orange essential oil in my rinse off products, especially shampoo, because it’s a fantastic essential oil for degreasing oily hair and skin. But it is really awesome for hand cleansers, especially when we’ve been making products and need to get the oils off our skin! I tend to use my orange essential...

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Essential oils: Folded oils and phototoxicity of citrus essential oils

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What the heck does folded mean when it comes to essential oils? Folded oils tend to be citrus based oils – orange, grapefruit, lime, lemon – and we see them as 5X or 10X folded. Folded essential oils are those that have been further distilled and concentrated to create a more concentrated, and usually stronger...

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Chemistry Sunday: Introduction to organic chemistry – functional groups

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We deal a lot with functional groups in organic chemistry, so I’m going to quickly go through the various types of functional groups so we can get to more stuff about essential oils! A functional group is “a molecular module, and the reactivity of that functional group is assumed, within limits, to be the same in...

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Essential oils: Orange

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Orange essential oil can be found in so many places because it’s inexpensive and it smells nice. It comes from the peels of oranges that have enjoyed some other use – juice, flavouring, and so on – What do we find in orange oil? The main compound found in orange oil – about 90% of...

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