A few ideas for gifts you can give this year: Solid bubble bath (sulfate-free)

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Bubble bath is such a fun gift, and creating a solid bubble bath using powdered surfactants is such a great way to create something both awesome and packaging-free! It’s easy to whip up a few batches of this formula in different colours and fragrances, and shape them anyway they please. Plus, it’s a great way...

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Esters: The hydrolysis of esters

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In the post on simple esters, I noted that we don’t want to use these in products that have acidic or alkaline pH ranges lower than 5 and more than 10 because they’re unstable and can hydrolyze. What exactly does this mean? Hydrolysis is “any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water ruptures one...

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A few ideas for gifts you can give this year: Bath salts!

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! My (dating) anniversary with Raymond (26 years!), my birthday, Christmas, and the day I was adopted, which also happens to be New Year’s Eve, all fall within 12 days at the end of the December, and I need to celebrate every single one, loudly and happily with...

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Esters: Simple esters

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Catch up on this series: Part one, the chemistry and nomenclature of esters; part two, types of esters and their sensory characteristics; and part three, chemistry of the sensory characteristics.  Esters are created when an alcohol and an acid react. In the case of simple esters, this is when a fatty alcohol and a fatty...

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What are esters? Part three: Chemistry of the sensory characteristics or why they feel the way they do

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Catch up on this series: Part one, the chemistry and nomenclature of esters, and part two, types of esters and their sensory characteristics.  There are quite a few factors that contribute to the functionality of the ester, that is to say these factors contribute to the viscosity, skin feel, melting point, liquidity, surface tension, and...

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