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Raymond Nichols Isn’t this a beautiful molecule? It’s castor oil! This is a triglyceride – three fatty acids connected to a backbone of glycerol (glycerin) – the 3 oxygen atoms at the top. The zig zaggy lines indicate a carbon molecule and the OH are the hydroxyl groups we saw in yesterday’s post. Finally, the double lines...
I have a whole series of ingredients planned out for the next few weeks…but then I realized that I’d left out two important things…how our skin works and what it needs! So please join me for the next four days as I take a closer look at your skin, and the three things it needs...
I know, you’re itching to tweak some of the products you’ve tried already, so let’s take a closer look at some of the products available to home crafters. I’ve offered you an overview of various ingredients – surfactants, oils, butters, exotic oils, humectants, preservatives, and anti-oxidants – but I’d like to take a closer look...
So I return from my craft group tonight to see someone has decided to use my blog as an advertising venue. Yeah, I’m not a fan of that idea. I’ve made a conscious decision not to have any advertising on my site – how can you trust me when I’m promoting a certain company or...
What’s the difference between an intense conditioner and a regular conditioner? An intense conditioner should have more conditioning agents, more oils, and less water. Click here for the regular conditioner recipe… So how will we change our recipe? We’re going to add Incroquat CR, which is a great softening and detangler, upping the the oils...