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SwiftCraftyMonkey Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! We’ve had great fun for the last few months looking at carboxylic acids as fatty acids, but it’s time to meet some esters! Woo hoo! I’m trying to make this post shorter than the previous ones as I know it can be a lot. An important...
Let’s create an awesome conditioner into which we can add all kinds of wonderful ingredients, including the awesome new-to-us humectant XYLISHINE™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Maltitol (and) Xylitol (and) Pelvetia Canaliculata Extract). In part one, we looked at what a conditioner is, why we’d use certain ingredients, chose our conditioning emulsifier, then we created...
Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! We’ve had great fun for the last few months looking at carboxylic acids as fatty acids, but it’s time to meet some esters! Woo hoo! This is a pretty huge post as I wanted to have something to which I can refer back in the future....
I bought this pH meter – the Apera Instruments PH60-Z Smart pH Tester with Bluetooth – over five years ago now, but somehow forgot to tell you about the most wonderful pH meter I have ever owned! Let’s talk about it now! Why do I like it? 💧 It’s super accurate – it measures pH...
I found a supplier! My Skin Recipes is a supplier that has all kinds of weird and wonderful things – as well as the basics – and they ship from all over the world from Thailand! I haven’t shopped there, but the very awesome Natalie Skiller does regularly, and she is very pleased with them....