Chemistry Thursday, part 39 – triglycerides and their impact on physical and sensory characteristics of emollients, part 39

A cup of lightly green coloured grassed oil in a shot glass on top of a clear plastic riser.

Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s continue our investigation into triglycerides with part 39 of this series. In today’s post, we’re looking at the impact of triglycerides on the physical and sensory characteristics. We’re also looking at iodine values and how we can use those, then we’re taking a side journey...

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Hey $10 subscribers, the e-book – how to make substitutions for cocoa butter – will be late this month, but there’s a coupon here!

Hey everyone, I’ve had a really bad few weeks healthwise – just chronic illness kind of things, nothing deadly or virulent – and the e-book is running late. The e-book is out! You can find it in the shop now! You can’t get cocoa butter at my favourite suppliers for love nor money – they’re...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – adding some actives and increasing the emulsifiers (part 5 with formulas)

Welcome to part five of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be creating a 2% emulsions with the humectants from last week with a few active ingredients, like panthenol, niacinamide, and allantoin. We’ll be adapting the formula to include a heated water phase as well. First, we’ll look...

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Chemistry Thursday: More about triglycerides, including looking at some triglyceride profiles, part 38 of the series

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Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s continue our investigation into triglycerides with part 38 of this series. This week, we’ll look at why knowing the triglyceride profile of an oil or butter is so important, then we’ll look at the triglyceride profiles of apricot kernel oil, rice bran oil, cocoa butter,...

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Let’s make a naturally compliant lotion with “fragile” oils in the heated phase – Olivem 1000

A fluffy white lotion in a beaker. We used Olivem 1000 for this formula!

As there was quite a lot of interest in this post – Demythifying the myths: Fancy oils are not sensitive to heat – you can put them in the heated oil phase – and we had a great conversation over there about the topic, I thought we’d create a bunch of different awesome emulsified and anhydrous...

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